Justin Goodman

Ebright: "The announcement of an indictment that directly linked Taubenberger to a felony criminal conspiracy made Taubenberger's position untenable, and forced Taubenberger's departure."

"Jeffery Taubenberger, acting director of NIAID—the agency formerly led by...Fauci—is reportedly out" "Richard Ebright…said Taubenberger was a 'close Fauci associate' and a 'key participant in defrauding the public about the origin of COVID.'" childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/flu-v…

Ebright: "Taubenberger's forced departure is a major step toward rebuilding and reforming post-Fauci NIAID and a major step toward avoiding a next lab-generated pandemic."

RFK didn’t end Fauci’s beagle labs—he renewed them. WTF RFK?

Robert Malone @RWMaloneMD was on a MAHA podcast this week saying the horrific torture of innocent beagle puppies in federal, taxpayer funded labs is now a thing of the past. The reality is, this BARBARIC animal abuse is still continuing to this day under HHS @HHSGov Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJr and the NIH Director. Justin Goodman @JustinRGoodman of White Coat Waste @WhiteCoatWaste joined me on @LoomerUnleashed to discuss how NIH has quietly authorized $142 million in BRAND NEW funding for gruesome beagle and kitten labs worldwide since last February alone. HHS leadership needs to completely TERMINATE these taxpayer-funded animal torture chambers immediately instead of just talking about it and pretending like they closed them down. We have the receipts! @NIHDirector_Jay @realDonaldTrump

Robert Malone @RWMaloneMD was on a MAHA podcast this week saying the horrific torture of innocent beagle puppies in federal, taxpayer funded labs is now a thing of the past. The reality is, this BARBARIC animal abuse is still continuing to this day under HHS @HHSGov Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJr and the NIH Director. Justin Goodman @JustinRGoodman of White Coat Waste @WhiteCoatWaste joined me on @LoomerUnleashed to discuss how NIH has quietly authorized $142 million in BRAND NEW funding for gruesome beagle and kitten labs worldwide since last February alone. HHS leadership needs to completely TERMINATE these taxpayer-funded animal torture chambers immediately instead of just talking about it and pretending like they closed them down. We have the receipts! @NIHDirector_Jay @realDonaldTrump

We introduced the PAAW Act to prohibit the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from conducting or funding research causing significant pain or distress to dogs and cats. These experiments, often hidden from public view and conducted with little oversight, include: ❌ Injecting dogs with cocaine and methamphetamine ❌ Intentionally infesting puppies with ticks and biting flies ❌ Inducing heart failure in dogs and cats ❌ Forcing beagles to swallow experimental drugs ❌ Intentionally breeding sick and deformed dogs and cats for abuse in inhumane and deadly testing ❌ Exposing animals to noxious stimuli which they cannot avoid/escape ❌ Forcing animals into long-term physical restraints, sometimes lasting weeks, with no escape This isn’t just animal cruelty, it’s bureaucratic cruelty, paid for by the American taxpayers. If the NIH won’t do the right thing on its own, we will make them.

Following the sudden exit of Jeffrey Taubenberger, a critical opportunity has emerged to clean out Anthony Fauci's corrupt, $6.5 billion division at NIAID. White Coat Waste @WhiteCoatWaste president Justin Goodman @JustinRGoodman suggested Wuhan LAB LEAK whistleblower Doctor Steven Quay @quay_dr to take the reins of the rogue agency. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJr and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya @DrJBhattacharya have total control over this appointment and must install a fearless reformer to permanently end these psychotic animal and virus experiments that endanger the lives of the American people.

Following the sudden exit of Jeffrey Taubenberger, a critical opportunity has emerged to clean out Anthony Fauci's corrupt, $6.5 billion division at NIAID. White Coat Waste @WhiteCoatWaste president Justin Goodman @JustinRGoodman suggested Wuhan LAB LEAK whistleblower Doctor Steven Quay @quay_dr to take the reins of the rogue agency. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJr and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya @DrJBhattacharya have total control over this appointment and must install a fearless reformer to permanently end these psychotic animal and virus experiments that endanger the lives of the American people.

@WhiteCoatWaste @JustinRGoodman Watch the full episode here! rumble.com/v7a8w3c-ep190-…

I am hopeful that President Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump will deliver a massive blow to Deep State labs by signing an Executive Order to completely BAN all horrific animal testing across all federal agencies. On Loomer Unleashed @LoomerUnleashed, White Coat Waste Senior Vice President Justin Goodman @JustinRGoodman highlighted that while key Trump admin officials like @SecWar Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth are successfully ending animal testing at their agencies, the @NIH remains the absolute black sheep of this administration. Leftover Fauci bureaucrats are still running the show at NIH and NIAID, and they are protecting these cruel labs from a total PURGE. Shut down all of the taxpayer funded animal testing labs!

I am hopeful that President Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump will deliver a massive blow to Deep State labs by signing an Executive Order to completely BAN all horrific animal testing across all federal agencies. On Loomer Unleashed @LoomerUnleashed, White Coat Waste Senior Vice President Justin Goodman @JustinRGoodman highlighted that while key Trump admin officials like @SecWar Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth are successfully ending animal testing at their agencies, the @NIH remains the absolute black sheep of this administration. Leftover Fauci bureaucrats are still running the show at NIH and NIAID, and they are protecting these cruel labs from a total PURGE. Shut down all of the taxpayer funded animal testing labs!

@NicHulscher They want the liability shield because they know their testing in hamsters doesn’t predict what happens in humans, including whether it will work or have dangerous side effects.

At first glance I thought Secretary Kennedy became fully compromised. Until I read the actual PREP Act declaration... It ONLY covers favipiravir for 2 months — an antiviral shown to protect 100% of animals from lethal Andes virus infection. NO vaccines are covered. Nonetheless, we all know the PREP Act is unconstitutional and should be repealed.

@Martina Now Congress needs to cut funding for all of the labs still abusing Ridglan beagles (and other dogs) with our tax dollars washingtoncitypaper.com/article/784273…

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JUST IN: 'Fauci Minion and Gain-of-Function Cheerleader' Jeff Taubenberger Ousted as NIAID Acting Director After White Coat Waste's Year-Long Crusade | Cassandra MacDonald, The Gateway Pundit Former Anthony Fauci minion and gain-of-function defender, Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger, has stepped down as Acting Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Taubenberger, who was quietly installed in April 2025 as Fauci’s successor amid the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal health bureaucracy, reportedly left his post about two weeks ago. The departure was publicly confirmed on Thursday during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the NIH’s 2027 budget when Sen. Tammy Baldwin noted that Taubenberger would not be testifying as planned. The move comes as part of a sweeping leadership purge at NIAID, where eight of the top ten officials have now been pushed out or reassigned since President Trump took office. Despite that, Taubenberger’s departure doesn’t appear to be the typical voluntary retirement or bureaucratic shuffle. Taubenberger’s ouster is more likely the direct result of relentless pressure on the agency, or worse, a cover-up. No group has been more vocal, or more effective, in demanding Taubenberger’s removal than the White Coat Waste (WCW), the taxpayer watchdog organization famous for exposing Fauci’s beagle torture scandals and Wuhan lab funding. WCW has been hammering Taubenberger’s appointment as a disastrous “vetting failure” since it was announced in late April of last year, just weeks after the Trump team began cleaning house at NIH. WCW President Anthony Bellotti laid out the damning case in a powerful op-ed for American Greatness on May 1 titled “Fauci’s Lab Leak Henchmen Are Finally Facing Accountability.” Bellotti detailed how Taubenberger, a longtime Fauci insider and intramural researcher at NIAID since 2006, was not just a passive holdover but an active participant in the COVID lab-leak cover-up machine. Taubenberger, according to Belotti, co-led efforts with indicted Fauci aide David Morens to undermine Trump’s 2020 ban on gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Additionally, Taubenberger co-authored papers with Morens and Fauci that dismissed the lab-leak theory as “thoroughly discredited” and promoted the natural-origin narrative while protecting EcoHealth Alliance and its Chinese partners. Emails obtained by WCW through FOIA requests showed Taubenberger was looped in on communications bragging that their work “defends Peter Daszak and his Chinese colleagues.” WCW has repeatedly highlighted his “Beaglegate”-style experiments, including funding for maximum-pain beagle tests sourced from Ridglan Farms and other grotesque taxpayer-funded abuse. Taubenberger also resurrected the 1918 Spanish flu virus from a dead body for gain-of-function-style work as emblematic of the reckless “science” he championed. Bellotti’s op-ed explained: As recently as 2022, Taubenberger and Morens collaborated with another Fauci-era holdover currently in NIH senior leadership—Matthew Memoli—on taxpayer-funded vaccine tests that infected mice, rabbits, and ferrets with various flu strains, including the deadly 1918 Spanish flu that Taubenberger infamously resurrected in irresponsible gain-of-function experiments. White Coat Waste has documented how, under Taubenberger, NIAID has continued to dole out new funding for Fauci’s risky bat virus labs and barbaric Beaglegate tests, including one at the University of Missouri that infests puppies purchased from the infamous Ridglan Farms with mutant ticks and denies pain relief. This hasn’t gone unnoticed. Lawmakers, including Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Rand Paul (R-KY), and Representatives Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) have called out the NIH for not cutting Fauci’s animal labs, citing White Coat Waste’s investigations. Gosar and 11 Republican colleagues have even submitted language for the 2027 NIH appropriations bill that would condition new spending on cutting off all active Fauci-era NIAID grants. Under Taubenberger’s watch as Acting Director, NIAID, with its staggering $6.6 billion budget, continued bankrolling risky bat virus research, dangerous virus experiments, and the same cruel animal labs that defined the Fauci era. White Coat Waste also teamed up with investigative journalist and friend of President Donald Trump, Laura Loomer, to sound the alarm. In May 2025, just weeks after Taubenberger’s appointment, WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman appeared on Loomer’s show Loomer Unleashed to blast the decision. Loomer highlighted Taubenberger’s role in digging up a corpse to extract the 1918 flu virus for gain-of-function research and questioned why animal abuse projects like “Monkey Island” and dog tick experiments were still being renewed under the Trump administration. “What happened to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse?” Loomer demanded. The segment went viral, racking up hundreds of thousands of views and putting the White House and new NIH leadership on notice. Fast-forward to a year later, this month, and WCW was back on Loomer’s show. In a May 13 segment, Goodman joined Loomer again to expose how Fauci-era holdovers like Taubenberger and NIAID animal testing czar Nicole Kleinstreuer were still greenlighting cruel pet experiments, including NIH-funded kitten torture at Auburn University and smuggling Ebola-like viruses into the country. Loomer also quoted WCW directly, urging RFK Jr. to send the list of “anti-Trump, pro-Fauci NIH officials” packing. Taubenberger’s departure was announced just over a week later. Daily Caller investigative reporter Emily Kopp credited WCW and Laura Loomer with playing a pivotal role in forcing the administration to act. In a statement provided to The Gateway Pundit, WCW’s Justin Goodman celebrated the news: “Good riddance. White Coat Waste has been calling for Jeff Taubenberger’s scalp for over a year as he kept Fauci’s shameful legacy alive by bankrolling more barbaric animal labs and dangerous virus experiments. Taubenberger is a COVID lab leak cover-up co-conspirator, gain-of-function animal experimenter, and maximum-pain beagle lab funder. We’ve been sounding the alarm about Fauci-era holdovers like Taubenberger and Nicole Kleinstreuer undermining President Trump’s proposed NIH reforms, and we are proud that the administration is listening and finally starting to clean house. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Jeff.” As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier this month, an NIH whistleblower sent a letter to WCW that has blown the lid off senior officials operating in “full coverup mode” to shield Fauci’s former top virologist, Dr. Vincent Munster, amid two horrifying scandals at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana. Munster, a longtime Fauci-funded bat-virus mad scientist, has deep ties to gain-of-function research just like Taubenberger, including co-authoring the rejected 2018 DEFUSE proposal, a blueprint for engineering coronaviruses eerily similar to COVID-19. The FBI has launched a criminal investigation into Munster for smuggling deadly human pathogen samples, including monkeypox virus, from Africa in his luggage. According to the whistleblower letter, the German-born researcher had attempted to transport “dozens of vials” of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) samples back into the United States in January. The whistleblower said that NIH officials kept the entire incident quiet, refused to inform the broader RML campus, and quietly banned Munster and his colleagues from the facility. They said the decision to downplay the smuggling came directly “from the main NIH campus in Bethesda” and that senior officials are now operating in “full coverup mode.” The same letter alleged that a separate lab accident at RML, first exposed by White Coat Waste in January, involved a staffer being bitten by a macaque monkey infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a deadly foreign virus. The bite reportedly penetrated the worker’s protective suit. Instead of being transparent with RML employees, the incident was allegedly hidden from most of the campus, and the exposed staffer was quietly “flown out” to avoid drawing attention. Loomer connected the dots in a post on X, writing, “Taubenberger — Fauci’s hand-picked Acting Director of NIAID since April 2025. As the top boss overseeing RML and all NIAID intramural research, he bears direct responsibility for the culture of secrecy and risk that allowed this to happen (and allegedly get covered up). This is the same guy who kept gain-of-function-style work alive, defended risky narratives, and resisted full MAHA reforms.” “Now, right as an emerging Ebola outbreak is being discussed in Congress — with real-world cases popping up and fears of spillover into the US from Africa— Taubenberger suddenly steps down?” Loomer continued. Whether cover-up or the agency succumbing to external pressure, Taubenberger’s exit, alongside the broader NIAID purge, sends a clear message that the swamp creatures who lied about COVID origins, tortured animals with your tax dollars, and pushed dangerous experiments are no longer untouchable. Unfortunately, as WCW has warned, dozens of Fauci loyalists still lurk in the shadows at NIH. It is well past time to get them out. thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/just-f…

BREAKING: We just uncovered proof that Fauci quietly resurrected an infamous kitten experiment in direct defiance of the Trump administration. And it’s STILL going on at RFK Jr.’s NIH. The brutality of this experiment will shock you. The more you read, the worse it gets: In 2018, we exposed a USDA lab in Maryland that bred and killed thousands of kittens for painful and deadly taxpayer-funded tests. The USDA lab’s staff—federal employees paid with our tax dollars—traveled to wet markets in China to purchase cat and dog meat. Which they then force fed to kittens at the USDA for this gruesome cannibalism experiment that cost over $22 million. We broke down the details of these kitten cannibalism tests in an oversight hearing with Rep. Eric Burlison last year. In 2019, WCW’s campaign prompted the Trump administration to finally terminate this USDA experiment and adopt out the surviving 28 cats. But we just uncovered new documents that reveal the experiment was never terminated. In direct defiance of Trump, Fauci simply moved it behind closed doors inside NIH HQ. These vaccine tests on kittens were quietly re-started by Fauci’s NIH division in 2021 and are scheduled to run through 2026. NIH acquired six three-month-old kittens in April 2022 and four more five-month-old kittens in October 2024 from Liberty Research—a Ridglan Farms for kittens—for these tests. The NIH lab feeds the kittens a slurry of scrambled mouse brains to try to infect them with toxoplasmosis and tests vaccines. They are even collaborating with the USDA experimenter who led the cannibalism tests.  RFK Jr. needs to answer for this. He and his top NIH officials have repeatedly claimed that they are “working tirelessly” to end cat and dog tests and that they’ve “ended most” of them. We’ve released overwhelming evidence that those claims are completely false. @RepEricBurlison @CassandraRules

@PattyMurray NIH funding wasn’t “gutted.” Congress rejected Trump’s 40% cut, gave NIH a raise, & NIH says it spent its full $48.5B 2025 appropriation. @WhiteCoatWaste has even exposed how, since RFK took office, NIH doled out $100M+ for barbaric dog & cat tests grants.nih.gov/news-events/ni…

The NIH Director couldn't say whether we're better prepared for public health threats under Trump—because we aren't.    Trump gutted NIH funding, delayed and canceled research projects, and pushed out thousands of scientists and staff.

I am fighting to end taxpayer-funded breeding and experimentation on dogs and cats. Full stop. No animal should suffer cruel, invasive testing, let alone at the expense of taxpayers. It’s time to maximize technology for a humane, science based alternative langworthy.house.gov/media/press-re…