On Thursday, the US national intelligence director’s office said that they agreed with “the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or…
US President Donald Trump has apparently balked at his own intelligence agency’s conclusions by claiming that he saw evidence linking the coronavirus to a lab in China.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Trump said that he was confident COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, adding that Washington was “looking at it very, very strongly”.
This was followed by Fox News reporter John Roberts pointing to a previous statement by the office of Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell which, in particular, read that “the Intelligence Community […] concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified”.
