I don’t think any of us are really questioning where COVID came from—Seems obvious but the media and Democrats have refused to accept the truth. Instead, they want us all to just go with the Chinese Communist Party’s official narrative that the virus originated from a “wet market” in Wuhan, new evidence is emerging that points to a much more likely scenario: a laboratory leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Thankfully, it looks like CBS Morning is finally waking up to the possibility of a lab leak, as they reported on Monday that the U.S. had been paying millions of dollars to the Wuhan lab for “high risk” research.
“We’ve got new details to share with you today about an investigation into U.S. funding the Chinese research lab in the city at the center of the pandemic,” co-anchor Michelle Miller announced. “It’s raising questions about how closely past administrations were following the use of the money.”
Using the Watergate truism of “follow the money,” CBS investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge interviewed Diane Cutler, a former federal investigator of white-collar crimes hired by Republican Senator Roger Marshall (KS). Cutler’s findings are certainly concerning, as she discovered evidence of double billing, potential theft of government funds, and “dangerous pathogens and risky research.”
Herridge also reported that former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield had testified to Congress that “money from multiple U.S. government agencies supported high-risk virus research in Wuhan.”
It’s clear that the Biden administration and the Democratic Party would prefer to sweep the lab-leak theory under the rug and avoid any further scrutiny of the U.S.’s payments to the Wuhan lab. In fact, Herridge noted that her investigative reporting was getting stonewalled by the dubious agencies in question.
This is a clear example of the Democrats’ disdain for the truth and their willingness to cover up the truth in order to serve their own political interests.
The GOP and their supporters, on the other hand, are interested in getting to the bottom of this and finding out exactly how the U.S. taxpayers’ money was spent.
As Senator Marshall put it, “I think there’s 1.1 million reasons that American taxpayers should care. If a plane crashes, we want to find out why the plane crashes. We go to any length to do that. And the hope is we don’t have another plane crash for the same reason.”
It’s time for the Biden administration and the DNC to stop trying to cover up the truth about the origins of COVID-19 and to start taking the GOP’s investigation seriously. The American people deserve to know the truth. It’s time for the Democrats to “follow the money” and get to the bottom of this once and for all.
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.
