“Oh, he would know that, huh, National Intelligence,” Trump said.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement on Thursday saying the U. S. intelligence community “concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified,” but President Trump didn’t seem aware of that assessment during a media briefing later in the day.
Conservative media like Fox News, along with Republican politicians like Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., have promoted a theory that the coronavirus originated from a Wuhan lab instead of wildlife. No evidence has been made public to support the claim and experts dismiss the theory, including Dr.
