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Trump on reporting that the coronavirus, while a naturally-occurring virus, came from a Wuhan laboratory: "I don't want to say that ... but I will tell you more and more we're hearing the story…we are doing a very thorough examination" Fox News’ report: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-wuhan-lab-china-compete-us-sources …pic.twitter.com/eks49IvbST
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley yesterday on Wuhan lab report: “We've had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that. And I would just say at this point it's inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural. But we don't know for certain."pic.twitter.com/dOXNXkHa77
"Milley’s answer on Tuesday was less definitive than his chief medical officer, Joint Staff Surgeon Brig. Gen. Paul Freidrichs, who has previously said of the theory: ‘No.’”https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/04/coronavirus-escaped-chinese-bioweapon-heres-what-pentagon-says/164612/ …
GUTHRIE: Do you have a view of the likelihood that this novel coronavirus could have come from a Chinese lab? ESPER: The results are inconclusive … A majority of the views right now is that it is natural, that it was organic. But I think we need to continue to work this.pic.twitter.com/CjYDKu4FlT
Politico - U.S. intel has examined the theory that the coronavirus emerged from a Wuhan lab rather than an outdoor market. So far, no hard evidence exists to support it. One person briefed said even China doesn’t know the truth about the virus’ origin.https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/17/china-secrecy-coronavirus-193120 …
Trump on Wuhan lab investigation: “We’re looking at it, a lot of people are looking at it. It seems to make sense. … There is a lot of investigation going on and we’re going to find out."pic.twitter.com/nw6KDIpcl1
Vice Director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology Yuan Zhiming: “We clearly know what kind of research is going on in the institute and how the institute manages viruses and samples. As we said early on, there is no way this virus came from us.”https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/laboratory-wuhan-breaks-silence-deny-claims-coronvarius-originated-there-n1186856 …
REPORTER: Have U.S. intelligence analysis told you that they think that the virus escaped from a Chinese research lab? TRUMP: Well I can’t tell you that. ‘Have U.S. intelligence agents told me?’ I mean, what kind of a question is that?… Look, they told me plenty.pic.twitter.com/8Q4YvmYzmO
Trump’s deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger has pushed intelligence agencies to explore whether the coronavirus originated from a Wuhan laboratory. Pottinger believes there is more circumstantial evidence in favor of the lab explanation.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/matthew-pottinger-faced-communist-chinas-intimidation-as-a-reporter-hes-now-at-the-white-house-shaping-trumps-hard-line-policy-toward-beijing/2020/04/28/5fb3f6d4-856e-11ea-ae26-989cfce1c7c7_story.html …
NBC News - The White House has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies "to determine what the WHO knew about two research labs studying coronaviruses in the Chinese city of Wuhan.”https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-asks-intelligence-agencies-find-out-whether-china-who-n1194451 …
“Sr. Trump officials have pushed US spy agencies to hunt for evidence to support an unsubstantiated theory that a government laboratory in Wuhan was the origin of the coronavirus outbreak…The CIA has yet to unearth any data beyond circumstantial evidence”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/us/politics/trump-administration-intelligence-coronavirus-china.html?referringSource=articleShare …
REPORTER: Have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the origin of this virus? TRUMP: Yes I have. … REPORTER: What gives you a high degree of confidence…? TRUMP: I can't tell you that.pic.twitter.com/3ysnXIXplx
New WaPo reporting: -US intel/scientists have not seen direct evidence but have not ruled out the coronavirus escaped from Wuhan lab -Covid-19 coronavirus was not known to be at Wuhan lab -US intel has seen no evidence of China covering up a lab accidenthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/chinese-lab-conducted-extensive-research-on-deadly-bat-viruses-but-there-is-no-evidence-of-accidental-release/2020/04/30/3e5d12a0-8b0d-11ea-9dfd-990f9dcc71fc_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …
"China challenged U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to present evidence that would back his recent claim that the new coronavirus came from a Chinese laboratory. The comment…was the first official Chinese government reaction to Mr. Pompeo’s statement.”https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-challenges-pompeo-to-show-proof-coronavirus-came-from-wuhan-lab-11588768117?mod=e2tw …
Mike Pompeo earlier today: "We don't have certainty and there is significant evidence that this came from the laboratory. Those statements can both be true. I've made them both. Administration officials have made them. They're all true.”pic.twitter.com/GEjUH0th2i
“In interviews Thursday, Pompeo shifted again, telling a conservative talk radio host, 'There's evidence that it came from somewhere in the vicinity of the lab, but that could be wrong.’”https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pompeo-tune-chinese-labs-role-virus-outbreak-intel/story?id=70559769 …
BARTIROMO: Can you tell us anything about the intel? TRUMP: No. But we have a lot of information and it’s not good. … BARTIROMO: They made a decision to allow it to escape its borders. TRUMP: I don’t know if they made the decision…I think more likely it got out of control.pic.twitter.com/rMVFIxHkPN
"The full [2018] cable does not strengthen the claim that an accident at the lab caused the virus to escape, nor does it exclude the possibility.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-department-releases-cable-that-launched-claims-that-coronavirus-escaped-from-chinese-lab/2020/07/17/63deae58-c861-11ea-a9d3-74640f25b953_story.html …https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1284335857722368008 …
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