You're only calling fact checkers crooks because they don't agree with your nonsense. If they DID say Fauci financed the lab I'm sure you'd treat them like kings.
Repeatedly. Over and over. In fact any time they go to the source of what the issue is about and take their word for it they are doing an appeal to authority fallacy.
Yes, I'd probably praise the person's line of thinking for investigating the different arguments behind a big and controversial issue. It's even hard to find Republicans that'd criticize or investigate one of their own in this political environment.