Pompeo Immediately Suspected Wuhan Lab, but Bureaucrats and Democrats 'Played Politics' with a Pandemic

When the coronavirus first took off, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo immediately suspected the virus might have come from a Wuhan lab instead of a wet market. The medical community, Democrats, and the media wrote him off as a kook. 

"They didn't accept what we said, the data set that we laid out before them because they played politics," Pompeo tells CBN News. "They had a theory of the case that was based on, 'this was Mike Pompeo saying this and he works in the Trump administration, therefore, there's some other angle here.' It's a shiny object theory or whatever it is." 
 
Now that it appears his suspicions have merit and that controversial "gain of function" research supported by the United States may have also played a part, Pompeo relays how bureaucrats kept putting up roadblocks as he tried to get to the truth. 

"Inside the State Department there was lots of debate about the efforts we had underway, but I was just vicious about demanding that the team do everything they can to sort fact from fiction," says Pompeo. "If it leads to a conclusion that's not the one that we think it is, great. We just want to get to the conclusion. But there was enormous resistance to this…we ran over the resistance as best we could both from inside the State Department and from NIH and other places, people who didn't want to talk about the fact that there had been grants to the WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology)."  
  
While that was then, the former secretary hasn't stopped trying to right wrongs. That includes tackling issues like the assault on religious freedom here at home.