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FBI Director Christopher Wray sat down for an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, host of “Special Report with Bret Baier,” that aired on Tuesday on ‘The Story.’
Wray managed to avoid giving Baier a straight answer on most of the questions, but when it came to the Covid Lab Leak Theory, Wray admitted what many of us have known for three years.
“The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray said in the interview. “Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab.”
The mainstream media loves to frame stories like these by reporting on the reaction from the Republicans.
After being lied to and called conspiracy theorists for three years, it’s only appropriate for Republicans “to pounce!”
“Glad to see [FBI] Dir. Wray finally coming forward w/ info regarding their assessment that #COVID19 leaked from a #Wuhan laboratory,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., wrote on Twitter.
“I’ve been pushing for them to share this info with the American public for months but [the Office of the Director of National Intelligence] has been holding it back. WE NEED FULL TRANSPARENCY!” he added.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., piggybacked on Marshall’s call for transparency. Hawley acknowledged that Wray stated the obvious, tweeting: “Of course it was. Now declassify the intelligence and let the American people see the truth.”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., shared her reaction to Wray’s comments with Fox News Digital.
She said, “The FBI Director has confirmed what common sense has told us — COVID came from a Chinese lab. Never forget that the WHO and Communist China colluded to cover up (sic) Beijing’s deadly role in spreading this pandemic.”
During a House China Select Committee hearing Tuesday, former deputy national security adviser under former President Donald Trump, Matthew Pottinger, shared his response to Wray’s admission when asked about it.
Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind. brought up a question to which the world deserves an answer. He asked Pottinger, “Less than an hour ago, the FBI director, Christopher Wray, confirmed that COVID-19 originated in Wuhan. Do you think there is a chance that the Wuhan lab was involved in bioweapons?”
“Well, I think that we know for certain that the Chinese military is involved in research into coronaviruses,” Pottinger said. “We know that they were experimenting using U.S. technology, by the way, to work on chimeric viruses. That is, ones that had been engineered.”
“We know that the Chinese military had been involved in trying to develop vaccine parts for coronaviruses. So, I think that this is an area that there is still a great deal of information that [is] yet to come out that will show that there was an enormous amount of interest,” he continued.
Following the airing of the interview, the FBI shared Director Wray’s statement on Twitter writing after the Bureau’s assessment, they’ve concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic “likely originated from a lab incident in Wuhan, China.”
Matt Gaetz, the representative from Florida, took the FBI’s tweet as an opportunity to remind people that what the FBI admitted this week, they would have tried to pressure Twitter to ban 20 months ago.
