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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Sun May 16, 2021, 03:12 PM May 2021

Devin Nunes Goes Full Psycho On Fox And Claims The US Funded COVID 19 Creation



https://www.politicususa.com/2021/05/16/devin-nunes-coronavirus-lab.html

Posted on Sun, May 16th, 2021 by Jason Easley
Devin Nunes Goes Full Psycho On Fox And Claims The US Funded COVID 19 Creation


Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) slipped further into the conspiracy abyss by claiming that the government funded the creation of COVID 19 in a Chinese lab.




Nunes said on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures:

You played the comment of Senator Cotton from a year ago- here we are and we don’t have answers. If you look at the evidence it’s pretty clear that there wasn’t some guy in wet market that ate a bat. It likely didn’t come from there. There’s zero evidence of that but there’s building circumstantial evidence that, indeed, this did come from a lab and money flowed from the U.S. Government through nonprofits that was actually supporting this type of research that was going on in China. And, look, why is this important?

This is about bioweapons, this is about biowarfare. This is very concerning and I think what senator Rand Paul was — was getting to is this really something that the U.S. Wants to be involved in and moving forward from here, we have to know the answers to this sooner rather than later and the Biden administration needs to get to the bottom of it.

I think they are sitting on and suppressing a lot of intelligence that the American people should see in order to know how to move ahead over the coming next few years as China continues to gain control of the life science arena and life-science global economy and trying to move all the technology back to China while at the same time not answering basic questions about the origin of this virus.


There are two very different parts to Nunes’s story. While scientists don’t know where COVID 19 came from, the crazed conspiracy theory part of what Rep. Nunes is suggesting is that the US government funneled money through NGOs to pay for the creation of COVID in a Chinese lab. There is no evidence that this is the case.

Rep. Nunes doesn’t care about where the virus came from. His real point is to try to make President Biden look weak on China. If this sounds familiar, it is. Trump and Republicans tried to link Biden and China during the 2020 campaign and totally failed.

Fox News is still pushing coronavirus conspiracy theories, and they are getting help from Republicans in Congress, like Devin Nunes.
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Devin Nunes Goes Full Psycho On Fox And Claims The US Funded COVID 19 Creation (Original Post) babylonsister May 2021 OP
So, during Trump's administration then, Devin? gratuitous May 2021 #1
I'm taken by irony -misanthroptimist May 2021 #2
Especially since his family business is tied up with cows, not oxen... Hekate May 2021 #4
Is There A Prize To The Repug That Comes Up With The Most..... global1 May 2021 #3
Russian agent says what? CottonBear May 2021 #5
Yep. Trump did it. dalton99a May 2021 #6
If this country was anything like it pretends to be MuseRider May 2021 #7

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. So, during Trump's administration then, Devin?
Sun May 16, 2021, 03:15 PM
May 2021

Why didn't you stop Trump from funding the creation of Covid 19?

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
4. Especially since his family business is tied up with cows, not oxen...
Sun May 16, 2021, 03:21 PM
May 2021

But that’s Nunes all over, isn’t it: the oxymoron of the Intel Committee.

global1

(25,252 posts)
3. Is There A Prize To The Repug That Comes Up With The Most.....
Sun May 16, 2021, 03:18 PM
May 2021

insane conspiracy theory?

Also - Covid hit under the Tr**p Admin.

Was it Tr**p's sinister plan to release Covid on the world?

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
7. If this country was anything like it pretends to be
Sun May 16, 2021, 03:34 PM
May 2021

the men in their little white coats would have taken him away long ago. The fact that they are not doing that now makes it all that much worse. WTF is this moron talking about? If Fox News was held accountable they would have kicked his ass all the way off that chair and out the door having said this.

Holy crap, the longer this crazy shit goes on the deeper we are in trouble because of the notion that you all must agree to be on the same side.

He needs to be removed and shut up for a good long time...like forever. Maybe, just maybe a few others would see that and stop with this shit.

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