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“Trump did nothing to examine the Wuhan lab leak either.”

President Donald Trump and his administration started to pivot away from their early defense of China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in late 2019. They abandoned their chase of an election-year trade deal and adopted a more critical posture that laid blame for the fast-spreading virus on Beijing. Deploying patently anti-Asian rhetoric, Trump and his team started a systemic—and roundly condemned—campaign in April suggesting that the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, the city in which it was first identified. Trump routinely referred to COVID-19 as “the China virus,” “the Wuhan virus” and even “Kung Flu.”

Most mainstream voices in the press and in labs ignored Trump’s rhetoric, rightly predicting it would spark a wave of anti-Asian hate crimes. The majority of scientists said at the time—and maintain to this day—the most likely explanation was zoonotic transfer, with the first human infection likely due to the exposure to the virus at a seafood market in Wuhan. On April 30, the same day that Trump invoked the Wuhan theory, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement debunking Trump’s assertion.

When it was determined when the Wall Street Journal reported on intelligence indicating Chinese researchers at the Wuhan lab were hospitalized, for symptoms similar to those of COVID-19, in November 2019—weeks before anyone knew a coronavirus was spreading the situation and theories didn’t change. When Trump’s former CDC chief speculated that the virus may have “escaped” from a Chinese lab, he was almost universally shrugged off as a Trumpian kook.

Under a blanket of security, a lot was done during the Trump administration. It was just headed off by liberal operatives. And no one knew any better than the liberals and their corps of information release that locked it up. The Trump administration was aware that if they had made the accusation, it may have led to a third world war. And the set up for this bio attack had been going on for a number of years so when Trump put China back on its haunches with trade stipulations, China released it. Don’t be fooled that doing nothing in the open is doing nothing.

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