The Department of Justice just indicted David Morens, a former senior adviser to Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health, for destroying records related to the origins of COVID-19. Not “mishandling.” Not “failing to preserve.” Destroying. As in, he allegedly took evidence about where a virus that killed over a million Americans came from and made it disappear.

Welcome to the first criminal charge in the biggest cover-up of the 21st century. Took long enough.

Now, let’s be clear about who David Morens is, because the media is already trying to frame him as some low-level paper-pusher who wandered into trouble. This wasn’t the guy who restocked the break room coffee. This was Fauci’s senior adviser. Inner circle. The kind of guy who sat in the meetings where the real decisions were made about what to tell the public and — more importantly — what NOT to tell the public about where COVID actually came from.

And what did this senior adviser to America’s most trusted “scientist” allegedly do with communications that could have shed light on whether COVID leaked from a Chinese lab? He shredded them. Deleted them. Made them vanish like a magician pulling a tablecloth off a dinner table, except the dinner table was the truth and the tablecloth was your right to know what happened.

(But we were the “conspiracy theorists” for asking questions. Sure.)

Remember how this played out? For three years, anyone who suggested COVID might have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology — the lab that was literally doing gain-of-function research on coronaviruses IN WUHAN, WHERE THE OUTBREAK STARTED — was labeled a dangerous misinformation spreader. Facebook banned you for saying it. YouTube pulled your videos. The “fact-checkers” slapped warning labels on anything that deviated from the official “wet market” fairy tale.

Turns out, while Big Tech was busy censoring your Facebook posts, Fauci’s own adviser was busy deleting the evidence that would have proved you right. Funny how that works.

The indictment alleges Morens deliberately destroyed communications — emails, messages, documents — that were subject to federal records laws and congressional subpoenas. This isn’t an “oops, I accidentally hit delete” situation. This is a federal official allegedly committing crimes to hide what he knew about the origins of a pandemic that shut down the entire world.

We locked kids out of schools for two years over this virus. We shuttered businesses. We forced people to take experimental vaccines or lose their jobs. Grandparents died alone in nursing homes because their families weren’t allowed to visit. And the whole time, the people at the top of the food chain — the people who were supposed to be giving us the straight truth — were allegedly running a shredding operation on the evidence.

That should make your blood boil.

Here’s what’s really satisfying about this indictment, though: it’s a crack in the dam. Morens didn’t do this alone. Nobody runs a document destruction campaign as a solo hobby. There are people above him who knew. There are people beside him who helped. And now one of them is facing federal charges, which means the DOJ has enough evidence to prosecute — and prosecutors love cooperating witnesses.

Anthony Fauci spent years in front of Congress doing his best “I don’t recall” routine, adjusting his little glasses and acting like America’s kindly grandfather while dodging every pointed question about gain-of-function research and lab leaks. Now his right-hand man is indicted for destroying the very records that could have answered those questions.

Coincidence? Yeah, and COVID came from a guy eating bat soup at a fish market. Sure it did.

The beautiful thing about federal indictments is that they come with discovery. That means prosecutors have documents. They have communications that survived. They have evidence Morens didn’t manage to destroy. And whatever is in those files is now part of the public record — or will be, once this goes to trial.

We spent three years being gaslit by the entire federal health establishment. We were told to “trust the science” by people who were allegedly destroying the science. We were called conspiracy theorists by the same people who were conspiring to hide evidence.

Well, the DOJ just validated every single question we asked. David Morens is indicted. The cover-up has a criminal defendant now. And if Morens is smart, he’ll start talking — because the only thing federal prosecutors love more than an indictment is a cooperating witness who can deliver a bigger fish.

We all know which fish they’re circling.