CNN Insider Claims Zucker Ordered Staffers To Dismiss Lab Leak Theory As ‘Trump Talking Point’

CNN insider says Jeff Zucker, former president of the network, instructed staffers not to investigate the COVID origins theory lab leak. According to the source, this was because the conversation would serve no purpose. “Trump talking point.”

“People are slowly waking up from the fog,” The insider said Fox News Digital. “It is kind of crazy that we didn’t chase it harder.”

Zucker’s utter contempt for Trump, his former president, drove Zucker and the network to become an anti-Trump organization almost eight years before he officially announced his bid for President. The network spread countless false allegations, misapplied and misrepresented facts, as well as omitted relevant information about Trump’s one term in office.

Three years ago COVID spread rapidly across the world. A concerted effort was made almost immediately by legacy media, public officials and Democrat Party politicians in order to discredit or deny the possibility that the virus had leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology, a central Chinese city.

Zucker and other CNN employees played important roles in trying to refute such myths regarding the pandemic.

Unter Zucker’s supervision, CNN’s Oliver Darcy published an article headlined. “Here’s how to debunk coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories from friends and family,” On March 28, 2020, the channel attempted to offer advice to the network’s declining viewership on how to talk to family members and friends who refuse to believe mainstream media’s view on COVID.

“While the coronavirus pandemic has isolated family and friends inside their homes, it has in many cases increased online or over-the-phone communication with loved ones,” Darcy wrote. “But, in some cases, relatives and friends share poor information – whether it is bad science related to how to prevent the virus, debunked rumors about cities being put on lockdown, or conspiracy theories about the origins of Covid-19.”

Darcy added the so-called misinformation related to a public health crisis poses a risk to those who fall victim to it — one of the many reports to come out of the network dismissing anything that goes against the mainstream narrative.

Fareed Zakaria, CNN’s host, stated during an interview that “the far right has now found its own virus conspiracy theory” When discussing the laboratory leak.

Tom Elliott, an independent journalist, created a thread on Twitter last week with receipts. It featured clips from legacy media pundits as well as reporters from CNN and other Left-wing outlets discrediting the leak. “conspiracy theory.”

CNN’s @DrewGriffinCNN: “Zero proof” Hinter “conspiracy theory” Covid was not a product of nature, but rather a Chinese biolab. pic.twitter.com/kpFQV8V37I

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 27, 2023

Zucker resigned from his post last year after an internal investigation into disgraced former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo revealed that the former network president had an ongoing consensual relationship — with top marketing officer Allison Gollust — at the media network that he had failed to disclose to the company.

Later, Zucker was replaced by Chris Licht at CNN. He almost immediately implemented changes at the cable company to restore trust and restored faith in it. “by being an organization that exemplifies the best characteristics of journalism.”

The “well-known” CNN insider accuses Zucker of not understanding the controversy surrounding the origins of COVID. The accusations come as the U.S. Department of Energy & the Federal Bureau of Investigation have recently confirmed that the virus came from the Chinese laboratory.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Department of Energy officials have revised an earlier document, which was deemed unacceptable by the judge. “low confidence” The virus was discovered in a Chinese lab.

The White House received new classified intelligence that showed Energy Department officials had changed the way they viewed the source of the pandemic. This was revealed in a 2021 update by Avril Haines’s office, Director of National Intelligence. This updated classified report confirms that COVID didn’t stem from any biological weapons program. The Journal reported that researchers and U.S. officials had suspected a leakage from Wuhan’s laboratory assemblage due to the lack of an animal source.

Christopher Wray, FBI Director, also stated that COVID was most likely emitted from Wuhan’s lab.

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According to the Journal, officials from four of these agencies and the National Intelligence Council still hold firm belief in their existence. “low confidence” In the natural emergence theory. Two other agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, have not yet made any determination.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee investigating COVID’s origins and federal government function-research gains pushed Sunday a new memo claiming that Dr. Anthony Fauci has new evidence. “prompted the drafting” This is “Proximal Origins” The lab leak theory is disproven.

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