One of the top US government officials said the most “ credible ” theory about the origin of the coronavirus is that it escaped from a laboratory in China.
Matthew Pottinger, who is President Donald Trump’s deputy national security adviser, told politicians around the world that even Chinese leaders now blatantly admit that their past claims that the virus originated in a Wuhan market were false.
Pottinger said the most recent data indicates the virus is leaking from the top-secret Wuhan Institute of Virology, 18 km from the market, and said: ‘There is developing evidence that the lab is the maximum credible source of the virus. “.
Matthew Pottinger, who is the reputed deputy national security adviser to President Donald Trump, says the ultimate ‘credible’ theory about the origin of the coronavirus is that it escaped from the Institute of Virology, Wuhan’s top sensitive secret in China.
He claimed that the pathogen could have possibly escaped through a “ leak or accident, ” adding: “ Even the figures of the status quo in Beijing have blatantly rejected the rainy market story. ”
The comments, made at a Zoom convention with lawmakers on China last week, come as a team of experts from the World Health Organization prepares to travel to Wuhan to investigate the onset of the pandemic.
Critics worry that the investigation may simply be money laundering given China’s influence over the WHO.
“ Parliamentarians around the world have an ethical role to play in exposing WHO research as a Potemkin exercise, ” Pottinger told MPs, referring to the sham villages created in Crimea in the 18th century, with the intention to convince the visiting Russian empress. Catalina la Grande that the region in smart health.
Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative Party leader who attended the meeting, Pottinger’s comments represented a ‘hardening’ of the US position on the theory that the virus arrived here by a leak in the laboratory, as the Americans spoke with a whistleblower. at the Wuhan institute.
Pottinger (left) told politicians around the world that even Chinese leaders now admit that their past claims that the virus originated in a Wuhan market were false.
“I told him that the United States has a former scientist in the American laboratory right now,” he said. “That is what I heard a few weeks ago.
“They led me that this is how they were able to strengthen their position on the origin of this epidemic.
He added that Beijing’s refusal to allow the hounds to stop at the laboratory only increased suspicions that it was a “zero point” for the pandemic.
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