CNN Boss Told Staff Not To Pursue COVID Lab-Leak Theory, Source Says

Jeff Zucker (then-CNN president) called theory a Trump talking point

During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, then-CNN president Jeff Zucker reportedly instructed his staff not to look into the theory that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China—a theory that government reports have since validated.

It FBI And Energy Department have both concluded that a laboratory leak at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology most likely caused the pandemic. Democrats and the media quickly dismissed the idea when it was first suggested by Republicans early in the pandemic. His staff was forbidden from investigating the theory Zucker believed to be just a myth. “Trump talking point,” CNN Insider told Fox News.

“People are slowly waking up from the fog,” According to an insider. “It is kind of crazy that we didn’t chase it harder.”

The anti-Trump outlets quickly repelled the idea that Donald Trump, then-president of the United States, and others had embraced the theory of the laboratory-leak theory. A February 18, 2020 press release “Facts First” CNN examines the claims insisted This “it’s possible, yet unlikely, that the lab was connected to the start of the outbreak.” The headline of April 2020 read, “Nearly 30% in the US believe a coronavirus theory that’s almost certainly not true.”

CNN host Jake Tapper called it a “theory”. “new, bizarre conspiracy theory” It was pushed by Republicans while John Vause, network anchor, deemed it “misinformation.”

Christopher Wray, FBI director, said that the FBI has always known this during an interview last week with Fox. “for quite some time now” COVID is a product of the COVID Foundation. “most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”

“U.S. State Department cables written in 2018 and internal Chinese documents show that there were persistent concerns about China’s biosafety procedures, which have been cited by proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis,” The Wall Street Journal Report in their article about the Energy Department’s conclusion.