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Former Bush White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen called out the mainstream media on the Fox News show “Outnumbered”. He argued that they rejected The COVID lab leak theory in 2020 because it would have distracted from blaming former President Trump.
“I’ll tell you why they did this… because this was happening during the 2020 election, and any effort to blame China was seen as deflecting from blaming Donald Trump. The goal was to blame Donald Trump, so they could win the election,” Thiessen argued.
His comments came right after the Wall Street Journal’s bombshell report into the COVID lab leak theory.
The report was released on Sunday and claimed that a classified intelligence report provided to the White House stated the Energy Department concluded that the lab leak theory was the most likely origin of the virus.
Thiessen criticized the natural release theory, which claims that COVID-19 originated from bats at a wet market in Wuhan.
“You have to be living under a rock not to realize this came from the Wuhan lab. I mean, think about it, this happened in Wuhan which is home to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, they were doing research on bat coronaviruses, they were doing it at biosafety level two – which is like your dentist’s office – as opposed to biosafety level four which is like space suits.”
“We know that the SARS-1 virus escaped four times from the Beijing Institute of Virology, so we’ve had Chinese lab leaks before, and three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology went to the hospital with COVID symptoms in November 2019, so we know that they got sick from it.”
He also added that there is “zero evidence” that the virus came from natural origins.
Even after the Wall Street Journal’s bombshell report, the Biden White House maintains that there is “not a consensus” in the U.S. government about the origin of the virus, according to the National Security Council’s Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby.
Kirby spoke with Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich on Monday and said that “[Biden] made trying to find the origins of COVID a priority.”
“He’s got a whole government effort designed to do that,” he added.
Fox News’ host Tucker Carlson also slammed the media for lying about the origins of COVID-19.
He said, “We know perfectly well COVID came from, we’ve known this for years. In fact, one of the very first things we knew about COVID was that it was an engineered virus that escaped somehow, intentionally or not, from a Chinese military biolab in Wuhan.”
“It was in early March of 2020, three full years ago, at the very beginning, that we did a long open on this show about the Chinese research paper whose authors later disappeared. Now, these Chinese scientific researchers scolded the Chinese government for the lax safety standards that they said allowed COVID to escape and infect the world.”
Most Americans knew quickly that COVID-19 wasn’t from a bat at a wet market, but a lab leak. It didn’t take Americans three years to figure that one out.
