During a Thursday night Fox News interview, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci’s “crazy” remarks on China and the origin of COVID-19.
“It should come as no surprise to anyone that there are folks at State Department that didn’t like President Trump, didn’t like me, didn’t like what we were doing and were going to work to thwart our efforts,” Pompeo said. “So it’s no great surprise to hear Fauci this morning talk about how the Chinese have an interest in us discovering what happened.”
“It’s just crazy talk. The Chinese have a deep interest in covering it up and they’ve done so pretty darn effectively,” Pompeo continued. “In fact, it was the State Department that ultimately, we had we had big fights inside the organization, but it was us ultimately, who put out documents in January 15 that demonstrated some of the central facts we now know that lead to the overwhelming amount of evidence that demonstrates that this probably did come from this virology lab. It was good work by the State Department team. We overcame lots of internal bureaucracy to get there. And lots of internal debate from NIH folks who were trying to suppress what we’re doing the State Department as well.”
Pompeo pointed out that Fauci’s actions imply “good faith” for China, but experts have stated that China has had definitive proof on if COVID-19 was researched in their lab – and they have continued to hide that evidence.
“[Dr. Fauci] implies good faith for the Chinese Communist Party, Laura. Here we are in the 32nd anniversary of Tiananmen Square, where we saw the brutality of this regime, a regime that doesn’t care about human life,” Pompeo said. “For Dr. Fauci go and think for a moment that the Chinese Communist Party cared that there were people in Wuhan that were dying, whether it was Chinese people or Americans, whoever else might be there is just naïve beyond all possible imagination.”
“The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t care for a moment, they have no desire for the world to know what happened,” Pompeo continued. “They could clear this all up in a minute if they wanted to. They’ve chosen not to, I think that’s another link in the chain that demonstrates that when we get to the end of this, we will have demonstrated that the Chinese knew what had happened, and their virology lab was at the center of it.”
During an interview on CBS News last weekend, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated “There’s no question” that China has evidence on if COVID-19 was researched in their lab because “they would have done routine blood sampling in that lab.”
