Assertion Supported
Gallagher: Illegal Reedley biolab held Ebola, HIV, and tuberculosis samples
“Eventually it was discovered that these vials contained Ebola HIV, tuberculosis. There was a freezer labeled Ebola. It was like these silver Ziplocs inside and the CDC wouldn't test it, which is crazy.”
Opinion
Gallagher: The Lancet covered up COVID origins, aiding the CCP
“You've had basic, you know, So-called scientific journals, peer-reviewed scientific journals like Lancet completely beclown themselves during the pandemic and continue to beclown themselves in large part by covering up for the origins of COVID and thereby witt…”
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2028
Gallagher: US will go to war if China moves on Taiwan
“We will go to war with China if China makes a move against
Taiwan, not because one of our ships accidentally bumps into theirs.”
Opinion
Gallagher: Defense CEOs giving Xi Jinping a standing ovation was grotesque
“In some ways, the more grotesque display was what we saw at the business, the US-China Business Council meeting afterwards, where you had, you know, American CEOs giving Xi Jinping a standing ovation to include defense contractors, by the way. Raytheon, Boeing…”
Opinion
Gallagher: Dangerous to assume China's economic woes deter Taiwan invasion
“And I think it's dangerous, therefore, for president Biden to suggest as he did in Vietnam and as he just did in San Francisco, that because China has economic problems, she is less likely to invade Taiwan.”
Opinion
Gallagher: Only Surging Hard Power West of Dateline Deters Xi Jinping
“No amount of apex summits, no amount of relentless diplomacy are going to affect Xi Jinping's calculus. The only thing that will affect his calculus is for us to surge hard power to the Pacific west of the international dateline.”
Opinion
Gallagher: Teachers' unions effectively bribe politicians and distort American politics
“Notably the teachers' unions who quite, I mean, are effectively bribing politicians, right? And these are public employee unions that are playing a massive and distorting role in our politics.”
Assertion Partly supported
Gallagher: CCP operated an undeclared police station in Manhattan
“The CCP via an innocuous sounding nonprofit that was basically a United Front Work Department entity set up on a police station in the heart of Manhattan that was being used to surveil, harass, and in some cases physically assault people on American soil.”
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Nov 2024
Gallagher: Americans can easily buy dangerous pathogens like HIV online
“You right now, Joe, could go online and buy, you could buy, you could definitely buy AIDS, you could buy MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. There's no tripwires in place for the purchase of this stuff,”
Assertion Supported
Gallagher: BlackRock and MSCI funnel US capital to blacklisted Chinese entities
“We've done an investigation of BlackRock MSCI, and we've only scratched the surface. We've investigated some other some venture capital organizations, and we are, we're, Capital continues to flow even to companies that are on various federal government blackli…”
Opinion
Gallagher: Banning foreign adversary control of social media is constitutional
“I think it's incredibly legal and consistent with free speech to prevent a hostile foreign adversary from controlling what is increasingly a media and news platform.”
Disclosure
Gallagher: Open to forced TikTok sale if US company gets algorithm
“As long as it comes with algorithmic control, By an American company, I would be fine with a forced sale, and that way American investors who own a bunch of ByteDance don't totally lose a ton of money”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gallagher: Skeptical that US efforts to achieve semiconductor independence will work
“Where we've already made a decision that we're going to try to wean ourself off semiconductor dependency on Taiwan, I guess in this case, I'm skeptical it's going to work”
Opinion
Gallagher: Sector-specific investment bans work better than individual company blacklists
“I actually think As crude as it is, or less elegant and precise of an instrument as it is, a sector specific approach makes more sense.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gallagher: Congress close to agreement on narrow TikTok bill
“The way forward is to construct a bill that I think we're very close to getting an agreement on, that is narrowly focused on this issue, that avoids the Restrict Act pitfalls by just basically telling commerce, go figure it out, and that is squarely focused on…”
Opinion
Gallagher: US regulations effectively ban domestic critical mineral mining and processing
“When it comes to critical minerals, rare earths, like if we just fix our Byzantine bureaucratic regulatory environment, like we could have a renaissance in this country, but we've effectively made it illegal to mine and process here, and thus we're dependent o…”
Opinion
Gallagher: The Marine Corps Is History's Most Effective Propaganda Organization
“The Marine Corps is the most effective propaganda organization in human history.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2034
Gallagher: China faces historic retiree crisis in the early 2030s
“The demographic challenge is one that will become most acute
In the early 20 thirties, they're going to run into a huge demographic buzzsaw really more retirees than any societies had to deal with in human history.”
Disclosure
Gallagher: Asked McCarthy to Name House Committee CCP to Separate Regime From People
“The reason I actually asked speaker McCarthy to change the name of the committee to say Chinese communist party and not China or PRC was to point out the distinction between the regime, the party, this is a party state, right?”
Congressman Mike Gallagher