A Trumpster said today there is a whistleblower from

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China that claims the COVID was developed in a lab in China. I have seached Factchecker and Snoops but can't find anything about this. Has anyone on DU heard about this?

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And if it was true you can SQUARELY blame traitor for making our relations with

China so uncertain and fucked up that they would release this on us, which they didnt do but...

[onetexan]

2. LOL deeeeesperaaaateeeee

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3. I figure it is something they picked up from

some crazy web site.

[brush]

4. IT'S A LIE. Another trump attempt to absolve him of blame for his...

abject failure in developing an effective response to the covid virus which has killed 200,000 Americans, and counting.

[FelineOverlord]

5. A Trumpster said today there is a whistleblower from

Last night I saw some MAGAts whining on Twitter that some Chinese "whistleblower" had been banned from Twitter after only a few tweets.

This person was apparently on Tucker's show recently.

I didn't bother to watch the Tucker video they retweeted.

[dawg day]

6. I don't think it's true.

Trumpers are like Trump. They grab some bit or word ("Whistleblower&quot and attach it to a conspiracy theory to try to trick us into thinking, oh, it must be more than just a Alex Jones conspiracy theory!

They have some vague sense that we all know they have no validity, so they pretend. It's like "I voted for Obama, but..." then they come out with something about pizzagate, like we're going to believe they actually aren't all in Trump-- Yeah, right, you voted for Obama. And there's a whistleblower. And someone who used to work for Mitt Romney told you.

You'd think if they had concerns about coming across as valid, they'd actually try to be valid and not lie all the time.

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10. Funny they would believe that whistleblower but they

dismiss a dozen of them that have blown the whiste on this administration.

[TheBlackAdder]

21. That's QAnon for ya!

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-qanon-impedes-legitimate-anti-trafficking-groups_n_5f4eacb9c5b69eb5c03592d1

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[Jim__]

7. 'Whistleblower' Claiming China Created Covid-19 Coronavirus Has Ties To Steve Bannon

From Forbes:

Being a real scientist would be easy if it weren’t for this “needing evidence” stuff, just like being a professional golfer would be simple if it weren’t for this “having to put the ball in the hole thing.”

Lack of real scientific evidence has been the big hole in ongoing conspiracy theories that claim that the Covid-19 coronavirus was actually manufactured by China. I covered these conspiracy theories back in March for Forbes, and mentioned how scientists and scientific studies outside of China have been debunking these claims and instead pointing to natural origins of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2).

But these days conspiracy theories, like the Covid-19 coronavirus, don’t seem to just go away and disappear, regardless of whether there is a herd mentality or whatever. Now, a person named Li-Meng Yan, who was referred to as a “whistleblower” by Fox News, is claiming that she has the big “e” word. No, not “eggplant Parmesan”, but evidence supporting the “China-made-the-virus” conspiracy theory. But does she really? Who is she? And what might Steve Bannon have to do with all of this?

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13. Figures Fox News bullshit. nt

[Roland99]

8. of course they're full of shit

[Midnight Writer]

9. I did see that yesterday on this site. Sounded hokey.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. I would ask them to double check inside their asshole. Which

is most likely where they pulled it out of.

[BamaRefugee]

12. Saw her on Bloomberg News iirc last night, browsing YouTube.

[BamaRefugee]

14. LOTS OF LINKS INSIDE

https://www.bing.com/search?q=chinese+covid+whistleblower&qs=AS&pq=chinese+covid&sk=LS1&sc=8-13&cvid=009E12CA22084899B228749E8E3D14A1&FORM=QBLH&sp=2

[LuvJoe]

15. She was on tucker Carlson I believe Tuesday but twitter took her off, she was debunked by a number

of scientists . I believe her name is Dr. Yan

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Some "Expert" On Carlson

Her name is Dr. Li-Meng Yan
She claimed to have done so much work on the virus, she knows more than anyone in the world.
She claims it's not naturally occurring & that the Chinese government released it on purpose.
Twitter deleted her tweets about this, as did Instagram.
I think she's a quack.

[Fresh_Start]

17. That makes it worse for Trump, because he isn't protecting americans

from their enemies...its worse than not protecting americans from an accident of nature.

[0rganism]

18. at this point, does it even matter?

unless you're looking for causus belli, how does this allegation help anyone?

the virus is here, loose in the population. we need to restrict it before it kills another hundred thousand people, whether it came from a lab or a layer of thawing Siberian permafrost.

[Blue Owl]

19. Sounds like Q-Anon Quackery

n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

20. Even if that were true. Trump fucked up and is to blame for 100K plus deaths and destroyed economy.

[Luz]

22. I heard we paid for Dr Fauci to help them develop it 😳😣

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. Wasn't this bit of bullshit decisively disproven

back in March or so?