Biden Walks Away From Question About Holding China Accountable for COVID Origin

Christopher Wray, FBI Director of FBI, stated that the COVID pandemic’s origin was within days. “most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” When asked by the White House press corps whether he plans to hold China responsible, President Joe Biden abruptly left.

The president approached the waiting media corps as he made his way from Marine One to the White House residence on March 3.

He was questioned by a reporter from the White House as soon as he came within earshot. “On COVID origin, will you hold China accountable?”

Biden answers the question “put both hands up in a shrug, seeming annoyed, and then turned and walked away toward Marine One,” According to a White House pool report.

After recent revelations that 17 U.S. laboratories are under the Department of Energy’s supervision, the president’s apparent reluctance was to discuss the issue after it was revealed that COVID-19 likely originated from a laboratory leak.

The conclusion reached with “low confidence,” According to The Wall Street Journal this information was contained in an updated classified intelligence report that was sent to The White House and key congressional officials in 2021.

In 2021, the FBI reached the same conclusion. “moderate confidence.”

Wray confirmed In a Fox News interview earlier this week, he stated that the agency still believes that view.

“The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray spoke.

“Let’s step back for a second. You know, the FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc, who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats, which include things like novel viruses like COVID and the concerns that they’re in the wrong hands,” He said: “some bad guys, a hostile nation state, a terrorist a criminal, the threats that those could pose.

“Here you’re talking about a potential leak from a Chinese government-controlled lab that killed millions of Americans.”

Wray added that the Chinese regime “It has done its best to try and hinder the work.” that his agency, as well as the U.S. government and close allies, are doing to uncover the pandemic’s origin.

The Chinese regime has long dismissed the possibility of a lab leak and has resisted international efforts to investigate the virus’s origins.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology had for years taken U.S. federal funds funneled through the U.S. nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance to work on coronavirus-related research, as previously reported by The Epoch Times.

In a report released on Jan. 25, investigators with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services said that National Institutes for Health officials had failed to effectively monitor the nature of the research EcoHealth conducted and take timely action to address the company’s compliance with grant terms.

The potential connection between the Wuhan lab and the origin of COVID-19 has recently garnered greater attention in Congress. On March 1, the Senate unanimously passed A bill Biden administration must declassify intelligence related the virus’ origin.