Does Anyone STILL Believe COVID Didn't Come From A Lab Leak?

In asking this question, I'm specifically looking in the direction of liberals, democrats, communists, socialists and other assorted losers who might STILL believe in the "wet market" concept.

 

Does anyone here actually watch Stephen Colbert?

Stephen Colbert ripped for 'willful rejection of reality' after taunting Energy Department lab leak report

'Only late-night comics have the authority to judge how COVID-19 was released,' one critic mocked

February 28, 2023

"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert was ripped on Twitter after he ridiculed a bombshell report alleging the Energy Department assessed COVID-19 most likely originated from a Chinese lab.

Colbert was accused of mischaracterizing and downplaying the Wall Street Journal report on the classified documents during his Monday night show monologue.

"Well, there it is! Chinese wet markets, you’re off the hook," the liberal comedian joked before mocking the intelligence agency which oversees biological weapons for investigating the pandemic origins.

"If like me, you’re wondering why the Department of Energy is the one making this judgment, it’s because that agency oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research," he admitted.

"No. No! Bad energy department. No bio labs until you finish building your electric car charging stations! Stay in your lane!" he mocked. "You don’t see the Census Bureau building nukes!"

But the left-wing host's monologue didn't sit well with conservative critics.

"'Stay in your lane,' Colbert says to one of the 18 US intelligence agencies. Clearly, only late-night comics have the authority to judge how COVID-19 was released," RedState writer Bonchie mocked.

Outkick Sports writer Ian Miller said the monologue illustrated Colbert's "endless, willful rejection of reality."

"It is impossible for people like Colbert to accept information that means Fauci and their other political allies lied to the public," he tweeted. "There’s an endless, willful rejection of reality to protect their ideology and undeserved sense of self importance."



Several Twitter users poked fun at Colbert's suggestion the Energy Department "stay" in their lane.

"When Colbert tells the Energy Dept to 'stay in their lane,' what he actually means is ‘you’re on our team, don’t ever say anything to make us look bad again,’" Fox News contributor and New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz tweeted.

Media critic and Fox News contributor Joe Concha suggested Colbert's comments reminded him of when the comedian was more political when President Trump was in office.

"Vintage Colbert. And not in a good way," he mocked.

Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy noted how the liberal comedian omitted how other intelligence agencies also had "low confidence" in their belief the virus naturally escaped from a wet market.

"Notice how Colbert emphasizes that Energy only has ‘low confidence’ in lab leak, brings up NIC & four other agencies leaning natural origin but doesn’t mention they also only have ‘low confidence’, & doesn’t mention at all that the only ‘moderate confidence’ is FBI with lab leak," he tweeted.

"Funny ‘Colbert’ didn’t tell Jon Stewart to stay in his lane when he said same thing as Energy Dept a year ago on his show," Washington Free Beacon executive editor Brent Scher tweeted.

The lab leak theory, or the theory that the virus came from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, was widely dismissed as a conspiracy and "fringe" theory. It was labeled as "misinformation" by Democrats, major news outlets, and social media companies in the early stages of the pandemic who tried to suppress the theory from being circulated.

During a 2021 appearance on Colbert's show, former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart suggested the lab leak theory was a valid explanation for the virus. At the time, Colbert mocked his friend for "working with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/steph...ty-taunting-energy-department-lab-leak-report

 

I'll ask again:

Does Anyone STILL Believe COVID Didn't Come From A Lab Leak?

FBI director says COVID pandemic 'most likely' originated from Chinese lab

Department of Energy has also concluded COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from lab leak in China

February 28, 2023

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by a lab leak in Wuhan, China.

"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 told Fox News in an interview that aired Tuesday. "Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab."

"I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we're doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that's unfortunate for everybody," he added.

Wray said the FBI has specialists who focus on "the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses like COVID, and the concerns that they [are] in the wrong hands [of] some bad guys, a hostile nation state, a terrorist, a criminal."

He also said that the Chinese government has been trying to block investigative work into the origins of the coronavirus.

Wray's comments come after the Department of Energy has also recently assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by an accidental lab leak in China.

The development was included in an update to a 2021 document made by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines’s office.

The National Intelligence Council as well as four other government agencies assess at "low confidence" that COVID-19 originated as a result of natural transmission from an infected animal, but the CIA and other government agencies remain undecided.

According to the report, there's a consensus between intelligence agencies that the pandemic wasn't the result of a bioweapons program by China.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-says-covid-pandemic-most-likely-originated-chinese-lab

 

Yes, if you read what you posted, it's quite clear we still don't know. Most experts still think zoonotic transmission is most likely, also from your article. Not to mention this isn't even new, the FBI said this in 2021. Here's an article from 2021 where literally nothing has changed except the DOE has now issued their report.

 

Well, of course we know. The FBI itself even asserts that it was a lab leak. Do you still believe in the "wet market" theory? If so, what knowledge do you have that the FBI doesn't have?

"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 told Fox News in an interview that aired Tuesday. "

 

They don't assert it, they say it's most likely in their opinion. The CIA says otherwise, so do several other intelligence agencies. The FBI doesn't even rule out other theories, they just assess that lab leak is most likely.

Also hilarious that suddenly now that you like them again FBI are truth tellers that are infallible. For the record, I'm not saying the FBI is here wrong by any means, I'm just saying they're not saying what you think they are.

 

I'm not saying anything the FBI has not said or is not saying now. On Tuesday, Director Wray asserted that the FBI has assessed that the lab leak is most likely.

Now, PERSONALLY I agree with his assertion as I've believed from the beginning that the lab leak theory was most likely.

So, do YOU still believe in the "wet market" theory? If so, I'd seriously like to know the evidence you have that the FBI, the premiere investigative agency in the United States (whose reputation was previously tarnished by several no-longer-employed-by-the-FBI liberal biased partisans), doesn't have.

 

Same as you, that it's not a known fact and that more intelligence agencies have also said they don't believe lab leak is most likely. We don't actually have any of the evidence, as it's classified.

Who specifically are you referring to and/or what did they do in the FBI to make you think it was partisan? Are you saying the FBI is totally good now?

 

A platypus boinked a Panda, and then went out for a Bat Dinner.

 

Well - at least the discussion and debate of the lab leak theory is no longer taboo.

 

@justafarmer Why do you and others waste your time posting with ignorant members. This one probably thinks Biden is the greatest president ever. There should be a test to become a member. The children under 12 who watch TV, cannot understand simple English, cannot process information, don't answer direct questions about the discussion, and look for any way to make what they think they know look plausible SHOULD BE IGNORED!

PS, As you said, at least the discussion and debate of the lab leak theory is no longer taboo. Notice how Ignorant posters ignore this fact? The enemies within our country in media tried to hide the truth about COVID and now the ignorant are still hanging on to those lies so they will not be proved to be stupid dupes!

 

Many people believe so. Mostly the people who blindly accept anything 'experts' told them. Anyone can find an 'expert' to attest to anything.

Time and time again these morons are trusted, drop the ball, and the people rage against them, but when the next 'expert' comes, they all get right back in line. So sad.

 

The time will come in which they are outed as 'stupid dupes' - but it will be long after the public has forgotten their transgressions. By then, no one will care. Look at the Cuomo brothers. Fauci (he will die before he ever faces justice). Plenty more.

And my generation will be stuck with the consequences.

 

I agree. Two tier justice.

 

If anyone believes in the wet-market theory, I implore you to re-examine your belief and consider that you may have been lied to about the origins of COVID.

This is the biggest scandal in American history

This is a scandal of many of our best professional researchers lying to the American people

March 5, 2023

We are living through the largest, deadliest scandal in American history, but the elite media refuses to connect the dots and analyze it.

COVID-19, a disease no one disputes came from Wuhan, China, has killed more than 1.1 million Americans and more than 38 million people worldwide. It has left millions of others with chronic health problems.

Because of the teachers’ unions and totally misguided, destructive public health policies, children who were under virtually no risk from COVID-19 have lost at least a year of education. Many children are suffering from depression and other mental health challenges from the forced isolation and lack of social contact.

Now, it is becoming more clear that much of this pain was avoidable – and the result of powerful government employees protecting themselves. As Jarrett Stepman in The Daily Signal wrote:

"In 2020, if you thought it was possible COVID-19 came from a lab in China you were labeled a conspiracy theorist, a peddler of misinformation, ‘bonkers,’ and a racist.

"Facebook and other social media removed the lab leak claim from their apps or slapped ‘misinformation’ labels on it. Facebook did so in lockstep with the government.

"So according to the standard set in 2020, the Department of Energy just came out as a racist purveyor of misinformation this week.

"The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that, according to a classified intelligence report provided to the White House and Congress, the Department of Energy concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic likely came from a lab leak.

‘"The Energy Department’s conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research,’ the Wall Street Journal report said."

President Donald Trump called it "the Chinese Virus" and was intensely attacked. Somehow the word "Chinese" was deemed racist. No one disputes that the virus originated in China. But calling it COVID-19 rather than the Chinese virus was more polite. (After all, it’s important to indicate an appropriate sensitivity to the totalitarian dictatorship that is trying to defeat the United States and become the world’s leading power.)

We now know this censorship and speech silencing was part of a systematic effort of senior scientists to mislead the American people. When COVID-19 first became a threat in early 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci already knew the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had funded research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance. He knew the WIV was a subgrantee of EcoHealth Alliance – and that EcoHealth Alliance was not in compliance with its grant reporting. Specifically, the organization was out of compliance for a project that NIAID knew could potentially make novel bat-borne coronaviruses much more dangerous.

Fauci knew all this.

According to Kentucky Rep. James Comer, who is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, on Feb. 1, 2020, "Dr. Fauci, Dr. Collins, and at least eleven other scientists convened a conference call to discuss COVID-19. On the conference call, Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from the WIV and may have been intentionally genetically manipulated."

The scientists decided to remain silent to avoid controversy (which would have ultimately fallen back on themselves).

So, the same experts who are paid by the American people and given tens of billions of dollars to invest in research decided that they would deliberately mislead the American people.

This perfectly captures the arrogance of the aristo-bureaucrats, who believe they are intellectually and morally superior to the people to whom they are supposed to be accountable. They believe they have the right and duty to censor what we think and say – and to feed us falsehoods in the name of some higher duty.

This scandal of many of our best professional researchers lying to the American people is compounded by the absolute failure of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why there has not been a scathing and thorough investigation – and set of hearings on the absolute inability of the bureaucrats in Atlanta to do their jobs – and the general failure of the public health system across the country is a mystery to me. This lack of introspection or investigation should itself be a scandal.

Driven by the economic impact of the Chinese virus, the American government spent trillions of dollars propping up the economy, sparking inflation, massively increasing the national debt, and permitting hundreds of billions in theft and corruption.

Finally, there has been no serious effort to hold the Chinese Communist dictatorship accountable for the damage it has done around the world. There is ample precedent for holding governments responsible for the damage they have done to others (the Lockerbie bombing, the Iranian hostage crisis, 9/11, and other cases).

The Chinese Communists have continuously focused on stopping us from understanding the origins of the pandemic. As Dave Boyer reported in the Washington Times, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray confirmed his agency believes the COVID-19 pandemic likely started from a lab leak in Wuhan, China. He told Fox News on Tuesday that "the FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan… Here you are talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab.

As Boyer reported, "Mr. Wray also slammed Beijing for stonewalling international efforts to find out what happened. ‘I will just make the observation that the Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart, and obfuscate the work here, the work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody,’ he said."

Clearly there ought to be a mechanism for making the Chinese Communist dictatorship pay COVID-19 victims for the disaster it caused. One step might be a COVID-19 tariff on all Chinese imports (the proceeds of which would go into a COVID-19 Compensation Fund that every American family affected by the pandemic could apply to).

Other countries could be urged to establish similar tariffs. Then Xi Jinping and his dictatorship would learn that lying, covering up, and hiding the truth has enormous costs for those guilty of killing millions and forcing the spending of trillions.

This scandal is so large, and covers so many areas, it will be a major factor in politics and government for the next decade. It will go down in history as a turning point in our lives and the life of our country.

We just need to decide what direction we turn: toward clarity and accountability, or toward lies and chaos.

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Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-1999 and a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. He is chairman of Gingrich 360.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biggest-scandal-american-history

 

TOO LATE FOR THAT. The enemies of America are the cancer that completely fills ever part of our country.
That's every part! Economics. religion, medicine, politics, law, production, etc. Furthermore, at least 60% of the country is either in favor of our down fall or completely ignorant. A few post here with us. THEY ARE THE ENEMY.

 

Just one more reason why I can't stand lying, filthy scum Anthony Fauci. He had a vested interest in quashing the lab leak theory because he was involved in gain-of-function research and didn't want to be implicated. Too late for that, Fauci. You're on the hook.

House committee says Fauci 'prompted' drafting of medical paper to 'disprove' COVID lab leak theory

Fauci cited 'Proximal Origin' paper from the White House podium allegedly in bid to 'put down' the 'lab leak hypothesis'

March 5, 2023

GOP leadership on a House committee said Sunday it uncovered new email evidence suggesting Dr. Anthony Fauci "prompted" the drafting of "proximal origin" publication meant to "disprove" the COVID-19 lab leak theory.

In a new memo released Sunday, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Majority Staff alerted the rest of the committee members to "New Evidence Resulting from the Select Subcommittee’s Investigation into the Origins of COVID-19 – ‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’"

"New evidence released by the Select Subcommittee today suggests that Dr. Fauci ‘prompted’ the drafting of a publication that would ‘disprove’ the lab leak theory, the authors of this paper skewed available evidence to achieve that goal, and Dr. Jeremy Farrar went uncredited despite significant involvement," the memo says.

On Feb. 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Francis Collins, and at least eleven other scientists convened a conference call to discuss COVID-19. On the call, Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated, the memo says.

Three days later, four participants of the conference call authored a paper entitled "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" (Proximal Origin) and sent a draft to Fauci and Collins. Prior to final publication in Nature Medicine, the paper was sent to Fauci for editing and approval.

"On April 16, 2020, slightly more than two months after the original conference call, Dr. Collins emailed Dr. Fauci expressing dismay that Proximal Origin—which they saw prior to publication and were given the opportunity to edit—did not squash the lab leak hypothesis and asks if the NIH can do more to ‘put down’ the lab leak hypothesis," the memo says. "The next day—after Dr. Collins explicitly asked for more public pressure—Dr. Fauci cited Proximal Origin from the White House podium when asked if COVID-19 leaked from a lab."

The committee, chaired by Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, cited several emails GOP leadership says, "suggests that Dr. Anthony Fauci ‘prompted’ Dr. Kristian Andersen, Professor, Scripps Research (Scripps), to write Proximal Origin and that the goal was to ‘disprove’ any lab leak theory."

"On August 18, 2021, Scripps responded to then-Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member, James Comer, and then-Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member, Jim Jordan’s, July 29, 2021, letter to Dr. Andersen," the memo says. "In this letter, Scripps asserts that Dr. Andersen "objectively" investigated the origins, and that Dr. Anthony Fauci did not attempt to influence his work. Both statements do not appear to be supported by the available evidence."

In an excerpt from a Feb. 12, 2020, email included in the memo, for example, Anderson writes that he, Fauci, Farrah as well as colleagues Eddie Holmes, Andrew Rambaut, Bob Garry and Ian Lipkin "have been working through much of the (primarily) genetic data to provide agnostic and scientifically informed hypothesis around the origins of the virus."

In a July 14, 2021, interview with The New York Times, Andersen was asked about how his view changed from possible lab leak to definitely zoonotic. Anderson claimed that he and other researchers "looked at data from coronaviruses found in other species, such as bats and pangolins, which demonstrated that the features that first appeared unique to SARS-CoV-2 were in fact found in other, related viruses."

But as the committee majority notes, while Proximal Origin was going through peer review with Nature Medicine more than a year earlier, Andersen "actually did not find the pangolin data compelling."

"Privately, Dr. Andersen did not believe the pangolin data disproved a lab leak theory despite saying so publicly. It is still unclear what intervening event changed the minds of the authors of Proximal Origin in such a short period of time. Based on this new evidence, the pangolin data was not the compelling factor; to this day, the only known intervening event was the February 1 conference call with Dr. Fauci."

In another email during the paper’s drafting process, Lipkin asserted, "It does not eliminate the possibility of inadvertent release following adaptation through selection in culture at the institute in Wuhan. Given the scale of the bat CoV research pursued there and the site of emergence of the first human cases we have a nightmare of circumstantial evidence to assess."

In a Feb. 17, 2020, email, Lipkin thanked Farrar for "shepherding" the paper, noting "Rumors of bioweaponeering are now circulating in China." Farrar agreed to push Nature to publish it.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ho...-medical-paper-disprove-covid-lab-leak-theory

 

Fauci was on the "take" and deeply involved in cover up. Nothing will happen to the worm! He'll be on the House "Hot Seat" and all will blow over.

When they start torturing these folks on Pay Per view it will stop. At the least do this:

Give folks like Hillery, Fouchi (can't touch Biden yet) a choice. You can go on Prime time TV and confess telling EVERYTHING in detail and you will be pardoned. Note: right now both of them live as if they did nothing anyway. Otherwise, ... What I have in mind will make sure confession is ALWAYS THE CHOICE.

 

Just gonna try one last time to put this down. I don't personally believe the lab leak hypothesis because it is extremely unlikely to a point of absurdity. The closest relative the world knew to SARS-COV-2, which was being studied at WIV and is the prime candidate for the lab leak theory is called RaTG13. It shares about 96% of its DNA with the strains that infected the world. Sound high? It's not. For reference, humans are more closely related to chimpanzees than SARS-COV-2 is related to RaTG13.

By contrast, we've found animal infection samples from the time the human outbreak began that are a >99.98% match. Furthermore, there were 2 animal strains that preceded and jumped to humans. That means either it evolved in animal reservoirs and jumped to humans, or multiple strains escaped from the lab, mutated in the perfect way at unprecedented record paces, went into animals twice, then back to humans.

 

I'm glad the truth is finally coming out that most (if not all) left-leaning news agencies pushed against the lab-leak theory simply because they were anti-Trump. They were anti-science, also. So many people who were against the lab-leak theory now not only have egg on their faces, but blood on their hands.

Sickening.

Credibility crisis: CNN boss ordered staff not to chase down COVID lab leak theory as pandemic unfolded

Then-CNN president Jeff Zucker considered the lab-leak theory a 'Trump talking point,' according to an insider

March 6, 2023

CNN has long referred to itself as "the most trusted name in news" and famously launched its "Facts First" campaign during the Trump era, but like many other outlets, that sentiment fell by the wayside when it came to the COVID lab-leak theory.

In recent days, the theory that COVID originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been embraced by FBI Director Christopher Wray and a bombshell report indicated that the U.S. Energy Department believes the virus likely started in the lab, a sentiment expressed by top Trump administration officials nearly from the outset.

But in the early months of the pandemic, then-CNN president Jeff Zucker would not allow his network to chase down the lab-leak story because he believed it was a "Trump talking point," according to a well-placed CNN insider.

"People are slowly waking up from the fog," the insider told Fox News Digital. "It is kind of crazy that we didn't chase it harder."

Throughout Zucker's tenure as CNN's chief, he pulled what was once widely seen as a straight-news organization to an anti-Trump operation. CNN bent over backwards to knock down what former President Trump and members of his administration said lending credibility to the lab-leak theory, as the White House was deemed a nemesis by the network.

On March 28, 2020, CNN’s Oliver Darcy published a story headlined, "Here’s how to debunk coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories from friends and family," that offered advice about dealing with pesky loved ones who didn't believe in mainstream COVID-19 narratives at the time.

"While the coronavirus pandemic has isolated family and friends inside their homes, it has in many cases increased online or over-the-phone communication with loved ones," Darcy wrote.

"But, in some cases, relatives and friends share poor information – whether it is bad science related to how to prevent the virus, debunked rumors about cities being put on lockdown, or conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid-19. While any strain of misinformation is not ideal, misinformation related to a public health crisis has an especially dangerous element to it," Darcy continued before declaring that "bad information during a public health emergency poses a risk to those who fall victim to it."

Darcy's admonition came as CNN was one of many mainstream outlets to declare the lab-leak notion utterly preposterous.

CNN host Fareed Zakaria once said "the far right has now found its own virus conspiracy theory" while discussing the possibility of a lab leak.

On Feb. 18, 2020, CNN published a "Facts First" examination of claims made by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., one of the earlier supporters of the lab leak theory. CNN insisted "it’s possible, yet unlikely, that the lab was connected to the start of the outbreak," citing an infectious disease expert who said of the lab leak theory, "I have seen no one provide any solid information to support that theory. I think at this point you can draw a line through it and say that didn’t happen."

CNN anchor John Vause called Cotton’s theory "misinformation" on air during a conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci that year, who responded that "theories that are not based on evidence and facts often can really mislead people."

A CNN headline from April 2020 reading "Nearly 30% in the US believe a coronavirus theory that’s almost certainly not true" was based on a Pew Research poll taken at the time.

"Its origin is up for debate, but it wasn’t made in a lab," CNN reported. "There’s still much we don’t know about the coronavirus pandemic, but virus experts agree on one piece of its origin story: The virus likely originated in a bat, not in a Chinese lab."

On May 5, 2020, CNN published an analysis by Chris Cillizza, who has since been laid off from the network, headlined, "Anthony Fauci just crushed Donald Trump’s theory on the origins of the coronavirus." The piece noted that Trump "has been making the case that the coronavirus originated not in nature but in a lab in Wuhan, China" but insisted Fauci’s claim that the virus likely originated naturally was more accurate.

"Now, before we play the game of ‘he said, he said’ remember this: Only one of these two people is a world-renowned infectious disease expert. And it’s not Donald Trump," Cillizza wrote.

"In short, Fauci’s view on the origins of the disease matters a whole lot more than Trump’s opinion about where it came from," he continued. "Especially because, outside of Trump and his immediate inner circle, most people in a position to know are very, very skeptical of the Trump narrative that the virus came out of a lab – whether accidentally or on purpose."

In 2021, ex-CDC Director Robert Redfield – a virologist by trade – told CNN he believed coronavirus escaped from the Wuhan lab but was promptly dismissed. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta told viewers that the World Health Organization (WHO) feels the lab leak theory was "unlikely" and Chinese officials have pointed to "multiple" origins, including "U.S. military labs."

The Twitter account for CNN's since-canceled "New Day" even framed Redfield's theory as lacking "clear evidence." CNN’s online coverage of the Redfield interview took things a step further, calling it a "controversial theory without evidence."

Chris Cuomo, who was CNN's biggest star at the time before his firing in December 2021, admitted to viewers in May 2020 he didn't know whether the lab-leak theory was true, but he invited CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt to downplay it, reporting that the "body of evidence is circumstantial," "foreign intelligence partners dispute" the theory, citing the World Health Organization calling it "speculative" and even echoing China's swipe towards Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as being "insane" for touting the theory.

The early stages of COVID were a tough time for CNN, as the network not only dismissed the lab leak theory and allowed Chris Cuomo to goof around on air with his brother, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D., it was also accused of hypocrisy.

Jim Acosta, now a left-wing weekend anchor who served as CNN’s chief White House reporter at the time, was mocked for declaring Trump referring to the virus as "foreign" could be "smacking of xenophobia." Weeks earlier, Acosta himself had tweeted about the "Wuhan coronavirus," and his own network had used the same term.

CNN didn't respond to requests for comment.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/credi...ed-staff-not-chase-down-covid-lab-leak-theory