Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development – Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning, physically attacked the Founder of Project Veritas, James O’Keefe, and his staff after an undercover video recording of Walker’s revelations about questionable COVID-19 vaccine research by Pfizer was published online by the journalism enterprise.
In a video shared on Twitter by the Project Veritas team late Thursday, Walker could be seen confronting O’Keefe purportedly for shooting the undercover video recording.
Project Veritas said in the video’s caption that the Pfizer exec attacked the team and destroyed an iPad showing the secret recordings.
SHOCKING: @Pfizer Director Physically Assaults @JamesOKeefeIII & Veritas Staff; Destroys iPad Showing Undercover Recordings About “Mutating” Covid Virus; NYPD RESPONDS!
“I’m just someone who’s working in a company that’s trying to literally help the public.”
“You fu*ked up!” pic.twitter.com/83OWqlKd4t
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) January 26, 2023
Earlier, Project Veritas published an undercover video recording of a garrulous Walker, during a Grindr hookup, speaking on Pfizer’s supposed move to mutate COVID variants with the aim of preemptively producing vaccines that could combat future strains.
An interviewer, who is secretly recording, asked Walker, “What is Pfizer doing, I guess to optimize, you know, the vaccines now?”
“Oh, we actually had a meeting about that today. So, there’s a lot,” the interviewee said, before adding “We’re exploring, like, you know how the virus keeps mutating? Well, one of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it ourselves, so we could focus on, create, preemptively develop new vaccines, right?”
Walker further explained, “If we’re going to do that though there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine, no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating fucking viruses.
“So, we’re like, ‘Do we want to do this?’ So that’s like one of the things we’re considering, for like, the future, like maybe we can like, create new versions of the vaccines and things like that.”
The interviewer then asked, “Okay. So, Pfizer ultimately is thinking about mutating COVID?”
Walker replied, “Well that is not what we say to the public, no. That’s why it was, it was a thought that came up in a meeting and we were like: ‘Why do we not?’
“It was like, we’re going to consider that with more discussions. That exactly, actually. We’re like: ‘Wait a minute, like, people won’t like that.'”
In another footage which appeared to be at a different location, the interviewer asked the Pfizer exec, “So, I mean, when Is Pfizer going to implement the mutation of all these viruses?”
Walker said, “I don’t know, it depends on how the experiments work out because this is just like, something we’re trying, right?”
The Project Veritas team suggested in separate footage edited into the clip that Pfizer could be involved in “gain-of-function research”.
A controversial topic in medical research, Gain-of-function (GOF) research is used to learn how viruses gain new functions through mutation and evolution.
The language about GOF has become loaded with negative connotations that associate this work with dangerous or risky research, especially after a widely-circulated rumor that SARS-CoV-2 which birthed the coronavirus pandemic was accidentally leaked from a high biosecurity lab in Wuhan, China, during GOF research.
“I don’t know, it’s a little bit different. I think it’s different. It’s like this, it’s definitely not gain-of-function,” Walker said.
Hi there @pink @questlove @MichaelPhelps @charlieputh and @jamieleecurtis – didn’t this company just pay you all to promote their #knowplango campaign? Seems like @pfizer has some explaining to do. Care to denounce your partnership with them? Let us know pic.twitter.com/G9mfyaQaVA
— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) January 26, 2023
Meanwhile, there is mounting pressure on Pfizer to address the controversy.
In a letter addressed to Albert Bourla, the President and CEO of Pfizer, and dated January 26, 2023, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) asked the company to come clean.
“Whether it’s gain of function research, or selected structure mutations through directed evolution, as Mr. Walker claimed would occur, any effort to make a virus more transmittable and deadlier is careless and dangerous. Further, Mr. Walker stated that Pfizer is willing to engage in this dangerous research because COVID and its variants are “a cash cow” for the company and regulators will go easy on their efforts because a significant percentage of government officials aim to work for Pfizer and other biopharmaceutical companies and do not want to compromise their future job prospects.
“As a company that claims to “innovate every day to make the world a healthier place,” these claims from your leadership charged with research and development are alarming. As the American people deserve to know, I request that you provide the following information:
“1. What efforts is Pfizer currently, or planning to, engage in to mutate the SARS-CoV-2 virus?
“2. Does Pfizer intend to continue mutating the SARS-CoV-2 virus through gain-of-function, or directed evolution research, with the purpose of creating new vaccines before the variant is present in the greater population?
“3. Has Pfizer engaged with federal officials engaged regarding their plans to oversee this research? Please provide the names and agencies for these individuals.
“4. What steps has Pfizer taken to ensure the mutated virus does not leak from the laboratory and infect the greater population?
“5. Has Pfizer engaged with other biopharmaceutical companies to collaborate on this research effort? Please list the entities that you have been in contact with.
“6. Will you commit to halting any future research that mutates the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine as substantial evidence has indicated that similar dangerous research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology very likely led to the initial emergence and global spread of the virus?” Rubio’s letter read in part.