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On Thursday, former US President Donald Trump stated that he was correct about the “China Virus” that originated in a Wuhan lab.
“Now everyone, including the so-called ‘enemy,” is saying that President Trump was correct about the China Virus coming from Wuhan Lab,” Trump said.
He also suggested that China be fined for the deaths and devastation caused by the “lab leak.”
“Dr. (Anthony) Fauci’s correspondence with China is impossible to ignore. For the death and destruction they have caused, China should pay the United States and the rest of the world $10 trillion! “Trump also added.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States’ top coronavirus advisor, had his private emails leaked to the press, reigniting the debate over the coronavirus that originated in a Wuhan lab.
The Washington Post, Buzzfeed News, and CNN obtained over 3,000 pages of emails from January to June 2020 via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
The emails provided details about the early days of the Covid outbreak in the United States. Early on, Dr. Fauci and his colleagues were aware of the possibility that COVID-19 had leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Regarding the “lab leak” email, Dr. Fauci told CNN that he still believes the virus was released by a Wuhan laboratory. “I don’t recall what’s in that redacted (email), but the idea that the Chinese purposefully engineered something to kill themselves as well as other people,” he said. “I think that’s a stretch.”
Experts said the claim was “extremely unlikely” last year, dismissing it. There hasn’t been any evidence to back it up.
However, the theory has resurfaced in recent days, amidst criticism of an inconclusive international investigation into the virus’s origins and new reports of Covid-related illness in the region weeks before the virus was officially identified.
