Republicans bumble about 'bioweapons' after FBI director promotes COVID 'lab leak' theory on Fox News
Coronavirus,China,World,Asia,Wuhan Lab
FBI Director Chris Wray promoted the "lab leak" theory of COVID-19’s origins in a Tuesday evening interview on the right-wing propaganda cable TV network Fox News. Wray's poorly-worded and confusing remarks led some, including several GOP lawmakers, to wrongly propose he may have been suggesting COVID was a bioweapon from China. They also quickly made their way into a congressional hearing less than one hour later when far-right Republican Rep. Jim Banks, citing the FBI Director's claim, asked if "there is a chance that the Wuhan lab was involved in bioweapons research?"
Director Wray, who was appointed by Donald Trump in 2017, told Fox News' Bret Baier the "FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan."
His "lab leak" claim is not the consensus of the medical or scientific communities, nor the intelligence community, nor the federal government of the United States, nor the World Health Organization.
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