Its would fair to say just because Dr. Fauci had a hand in sending grant money to the Virology lab in Wuhan, that doesn't mean he was directly behind in directing the creation of this Coivd virus. Just because you give money to a institution doesn't mean you know exactly whats going on there
This is a bit interesting off the CDC's website ........
Although the Wuhan market was initially suspected to be the epicenter
of the epidemic, the immediate source remains elusive. The close
relatedness among SARS-CoV-2 strains suggested that the Wuhan outbreak
probably originated from a point source with subsequent human-to-human
transmission, in contrast to the polyphyletic origin of Middle East
respiratory syndrome coronavirus (14).
If the Wuhan market was the source, a possibility is that bats carrying
the parental SARSr-BatCoVs were mixed in the market, enabling virus
recombination. However, no animal samples from the market were reported
to be positive. Moreover, the first identified case-patient and other
early case-patients had not visited the market (15), suggesting the possibility of an alternative source.
Because the RBD is considered a hot spot for construction of
recombinant CoVs for receptor and viral replication studies, the
evolutionarily distinct SARS-CoV-2 RBD and the unique insertion of S1/S2
cleavage site among Sarbecovirus species have raised the
suspicion of an artificial recombinant virus. However, there is
currently no evidence showing that SARS-CoV-2 is an artificial
recombinant, which theoretically might not carry signature sequences.
Further surveillance studies in bats are needed to identify the possible
source and evolutionary path of SARS-CoV-2.