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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,009 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 09:08 PM Apr 2020

Senate Republicans plan coronavirus probe -- with a focus on China

Source: Politico

The Senate's main oversight committee is beginning a wide-ranging probe into the origins and response to the coronavirus pandemic, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson said in an interview on Monday.

Johnson (R-Wis.) said that his committee is "going to conduct oversight on this thing in its entirety." He listed off several elements of the probe: Why the national stockpile wasn't "better prepared," why pharmaceutical ingredients and medical devices are manufactured overseas, the World Health Organization's response to the virus and how the virus spread in the first place.

But it’s not clear how closely President Donald Trump’s performance is going to come under the microscope from the GOP-led panel, with Johnson and other Republicans mainly focused on China and the WHO.

"Where did this all start from? Was this transferred animal to human? Was this from a lab in China? Might have been the best of intentions trying to come up with the different cures, with the different therapies for the coronavirus in general," Johnson said, echoing some conservative theories. "We need to know what role WHO might have had in trying to cover this thing up."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-republicans-plan-coronavirus-probe-%e2%80%94-with-a-focus-on-china/ar-BB12zWx6?li=BBnb7Kz



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Senate Republicans plan coronavirus probe -- with a focus on China (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
Maybe they should research its origins in Ukraine, too. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #1
Time to send in Rudy Giuliani! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2020 #2
+1 dalton99a Apr 2020 #4
They must investigate the clandestine Hunter Biden and Peter Strzoc mr_lebowski Apr 2020 #5
This wins the Internet today LOL Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2020 #6
Not yet... Roy Rolling Apr 2020 #11
Senate Republicans are worthless . . .. Iliyah Apr 2020 #3
Oversight? Ha! Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2020 #7
Americans are dying and they are trying to give Trump political cover. BlueIdaho Apr 2020 #8
McConnell is still doing Trump and Putin's dirty work. Even as Americans die. C Moon Apr 2020 #9
I'm sure the Republican Senators will conclude Trump did a tremendous job, the greatest response tclambert Apr 2020 #10
AKA Traitorous Fascist Russian Repugs begin coverup for president. lark Apr 2020 #12
The problem with the republican's revision of history, in spite of China's fault in this, still_one Apr 2020 #13
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
5. They must investigate the clandestine Hunter Biden and Peter Strzoc
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 09:18 PM
Apr 2020

meeting in Burisma's top-secret basement hacking/pedo/bioweapon laboratory!!!1!!

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,412 posts)
7. Oversight? Ha!
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 09:30 PM
Apr 2020

This needs to be referred to as the "Find a scapegoat for Trump's horrific fatal failures here in the US" Senate un-intelligence committee

tclambert

(11,087 posts)
10. I'm sure the Republican Senators will conclude Trump did a tremendous job, the greatest response
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 10:56 PM
Apr 2020

possible, better than anyone could have expected, despite receiving no help at all from the Obama administration, and they will dedicate many pages of their final report to thanking donald Trump for his visionary leadership.

lark

(23,102 posts)
12. AKA Traitorous Fascist Russian Repugs begin coverup for president.
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 08:08 AM
Apr 2020

They are pointing at everyone else in the world to distract from the missing in action lack of performance (on purpose) of drumpf. They want to distract from the rampant profiteering that caused 20,000+ Americans to die for the money bags of drumpf and feckless kid douchebag.

still_one

(92,204 posts)
13. The problem with the republican's revision of history, in spite of China's fault in this,
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 08:21 AM
Apr 2020

is they cannot justify how they were warned by multiple sources of the seriousness of this situation, including those within trump's administration, and they still refused to take it seriously, only demonstrates how badly trump dropped the ball

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