MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace once called the COVID lab leak theory a “conspiracy theory” but has failed to inform viewers that the notion is now considered the likely cause of the pandemic by government voices she normally reveres.
Wallace, one of the media’s most rabidly anti-GOP voices, blamed then-President Trump on April 30, 2020 for pushing intelligence agencies into investigating one of “Trump world’s most favorite conspiracy theories,” when referring to the possibility that COVID originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Wallace read a Times report to viewers that claimed, “administration officials have pushed American spy agencies to hunt for evidence to support an unsubstantiated theory that a government laboratory in Wuhan” was the source of the virus. The report added that “analysts are concerned that the pressure from administration officials will distort assessments about the virus and that they could be used as a political weapon in an intensifying battle with China.”
When the intelligence community began to recognize the lab leak theory might be plausible, Wallace brought on Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Gordon to explain why President Biden ordered a probe into COVID’s origins. Suddenly, Wallace was interested and chalked up prior dismissals to the lab leak theory being a “talking point” of the Trump administration.
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