Pompeo defends Wuhan lab claims in combative press conference
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sparred with reporters Wednesday, insisting questions remain over whether the novel coronavirus pandemic came from a Chinese lab, despite pushback from senior intelligence officials and health experts.
"Barbara, Barbara, let me just, let me just put this to bed. Your efforts to try and find -- just to spend your whole life trying to drive a little wedge between senior American officials... it's just false," Pompeo said in response to a question by BBC reporter Barbara Plett Usher about the intelligence over the origins of the virus.
Pompeo has pushed the theory that the first cases of the novel coronavirus could have come from a scientist exposed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, part of efforts to demand Beijing allow international experts to investigate the outbreak as well as take responsibility for the global pandemic.
Pompeo said in an interview Sunday there is "enormous evidence" the virus came from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan. But that statement has received pushback from from senior officials and health experts.
But Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said on Tuesday the evidence points to the virus naturally occurring and there is no "conclusive evidence" it was accidentally or intentionally leaked from a lab.
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Mike Pompeo is a Dominionist who wants to hurry the end times.
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