He’s not even willing to give a mealy-mouthed politician style answer
Biden dodges reporters after question on COVID-19 origin: ‘Will you hold China accountable?’
As President Biden left the White House Friday, he approached then swiftly turned his back on reporters after one asked him to comment on COVID-19’s origins.
On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox News the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by a lab leak in Wuhan, China, a theory that was initially dubbed as a conspiracy. This followed a similar analysis from the Department of Energy.
NTD News White House Correspondent Iris Tao shared her footage of the encounter with Biden on Twitter. In it, Biden can be seen leaving the White House and approaching the reporters waiting outside until Tao can be heard asking about COVID-19’s origin, “Will you hold China accountable?” Biden put his hands up then turned away to board the presidential helicopter, Marine One.
Why would he? He’s spent time helping out Ukraine, but, not East Palestine. He’s not particularly interested in helping Americans, and most likely in the pocket of China
BREAKING: President Biden @POTUS was going to speak but turned away upon hearing my question on #Covid origin and whether he’ll hold #China accountable. @NTDNews @ChinaInFocusNTD @capitolreport pic.twitter.com/jsbMTNPeYb
— Iris Tao (@IrisTaoTV) March 3, 2023
It’s not like it was some offbeat, out of bound, absurd question. It’s one that the American public, which lost 1.13 million citizens, lost their jobs, their businesses, dealt with sickness and authoritarian government, and are dealing with the economic fallout (among others), deserve an answer to
“The question of how this pandemic began is the most important question in the world, and we should not continue to waste precious time waiting for the Chinese Communist Party to suddenly cooperate with U.S. officials and open up access to the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Gallagher added. “It’s time for Congress to act and force the administration to declassify the relevant intelligence surrounding the pandemic.”
Will the Democrats in Congress work to protect that classified information? Will the Biden admin work to block its release?
Meanwhile
(UK Guardian) The World Health Organization has urged all countries to reveal what they know about the origins of Covid-19, after claims from several US government agencies that a Chinese lab leak was behind the disease were furiously denied by Beijing.
“If any country has information about the origins of the pandemic, it’s essential for that information to be shared with WHO and the international scientific community,” the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Friday.
Perhaps they should be demanding China release all their information, rather than calling on “all countries”.
(NBC News) The White House on Thursday laid out its plan to target pandemic fraudsters and recapture stolen relief funds distributed under both the Trump and Biden administrations.
A top White House official said the goal was to provide $600 million to investigate and prosecute systemic pandemic fraud, a similar amount to bolster fraud prevention and $400 million to help victims of identity theft.
Don’t we already pay people who work for the federal government to investigate fraud? Don’t they already have budgets for that?
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