Mike Pompeo says
“I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan.”
“Although covid-19 seems not manmade… China brought this virus to the world …”So now we be facing a political crisis too.pic.twitter.com/Nm8J1fCNfk
— ⓨⓞⓛⓞ (@yologaza) May 3, 2020
Courtesy of Axios:
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that there’s “enormous evidence” to support the theory that the coronavirus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, not a nearby market.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced Thursday that it is investigating whether the outbreak was the result of exposure to wild animals or a laboratory accident in Wuhan. Pompeo said he has no reason to doubt the intelligence community’s consensus that the virus was “not manmade or genetically modified.”
President Trump also claimed last week that he has seen evidence that gives him a “high degree of confidence” that the lab was the origin of the virus, but refused to elaborate.
“Martha, there’s enormous evidence that that’s where this began. We have said from the beginning, that this was a virus that originated in Wuhan, China. We took a lot of grief for that from the outset. But I think the whole world can see now. Remember, China has a history of infecting the world, and they have a history of running sub-standard laboratories. These are not the first times that we have had the world exposed to viruses as a result of failures in a Chinese lab.”
— Mike Pompeo
This statement is interesting because after trump made these same accusations the DNI issued a statement saying there was no evidence to suggests that this virus originated in the Wuhan laboratories.
Look I don’t know what happened exactly, none of us do yet,
But what I do know is that Trump and his administration are working overtime to scapegoat China over this outbreak and it is starting to feel as if they are making up evidence to fit that agenda.
Here we go again, they have evidence that NO ONE ELSE in the world has found and it is a big secret. (like Rudy and his Burisma evidence ) Gosh and trump has never lied to the American public.
This is all smoke and mirrors to try and deflect the fact that he is incompetent and created the fiasco in the US.
If they really had evidence don’t you think they would show it to the world, prove they are right or is little donnie going to use it as pro quid pro for his Chinese loans?
that is the problem with LYING to the public for 3. 5 years, no one believes anything this administration says, cried wolf too many times.
You beat me to it!
Yep, pompous ass pompeo. Always trying with the smoke and mirrors and trying to sound credible. He is a piece of work.trump cult always with the accusations , never with proof!!!! Anything to deflect the” enormous evidence” to support trump and his cabinet, senate and all of his hateful, stupid ,destuctive agenda!!!!! All things trump are predicated on blatent lies. They are all traitors to America. Please vote them away. please. They are the worst of us!!!
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/conservative-columnist-silences-trumps-attempts-to-blame-china-for-his-own-bungles/
“He is eager to scapegoat China for a pandemic that has infected more than 1.1 million Americans, killed more than 68,000 and left more than 30 million jobless,”
““The Chinese regime is no angel — it is a brutal dictatorship that censors information, jails dissidents, commits atrocities against the Uighurs and bullies its neighbors. The United States would be better advised to focus on those genuine abuses rather than playing the pandemic blame game — lest other nations start demanding reparations for the 1918 flu,” Boot closed.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/this-is-what-madness-looks-like-internet-stunned-by-trumps-overly-dramatic-great-and-powerful-plague-tweet/
‘You are not the messiah. You are not all-knowing.’
‘My daughter asked me if he’s a mass murderer. I said he most certainly is.’ {& a RAPIST}
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/lincoln-was-assassinated-disgust-follows-trumps-claim-he-is-treated-worse-than-lincoln/
@maggieNYT
The president said in front of the Lincoln Memorial that he thinks he’s been treated worse than Lincoln.
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Trump: “They always said Lincoln. Nobody got treated worse than Lincoln. I believe I am treated worse.”
Lincoln was assassinated, but that’s nothing compared to Trump having to answer questions from reporters.
– #TrumpTownHall at the Lincoln Memorial
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Someone should put together clips of past reporters badgering presidents — Dan Rather tearing into Nixon, Sam Donaldson barking at Reagan, Helen Thomas doggedly going after Clinton, etc. etc.
The idea that Trump is being treated worse than them is ludicrous. Or Lincoln? Jesus.
Trending with: #KentStateMay4
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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/04/resistance-group-endorses-biden-hes-like-abraham-lincoln-compared-to-donald-trump.html
The group, part of the so-called “Resistance”, voted to support the former Vice President.
Indivisible will formally endorse Biden on Monday
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/03/fox-news-town-hall-completely-backfires-on-trump.html
Trump thought that he was positioning himself with Lincoln. Instead, he looked small and inadequate next to one of the giants of the presidency.
MU$Hroom Toad^
What a little sissy, can’t even take questions from reporters. Probable because he has to come up with lie, telling the truth is always easier.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/coronavirus-fuels-fascist-politics-by-federico-finchelstein-and-jason-stanley-2020-05?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
“one Vox leader, Javier Ortega Smith, put it, “my Spanish antibodies fight against the damned Chinese viruses.”
“In fascist politics, reality is merely an instrument through which to propagate ideology and assert domination.
As Hitler put it in Mein Kampf, “[t]he national State will look upon Science as a means for increasing national pride.”
“Political leaders will always be tempted to blame problems on familiar ideological enemies, because doing so provides narrative coherence.”
Hannah Arendt reminded us, “[t]he chief disability of totalitarian propaganda is that it cannot fulfill this longing of the masses for a completely consistent, comprehensible, and predictable world without seriously conflicting with common sense.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/devin-nunes-and-his-attorney-could-face-court-sanctions-after-angering-judges-with-absurd-filings/
In addition to Nunes, the attorney is representing a Russian graduate student who was mentioned in news stories about former national security adviser Michael Flynn and a multimillionaire accused of circulating conspiracy theories about the murder of a Democratic National Committee staffer in summer 2016.
National Public Radio, Twitter and a government whistleblower advocate have each requested court sanctions against Biss, as did Fusion GPS, which paid former British spy Christopher Steele to investigate President Donald Trump’s connections to Russia.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/03/lindsey-graham-mike-flynn-obama.html
Graham said on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures, “Seems to me, there’s a tale of two FBIs here. The FBI agents that we all admire in the field office, and this hit squad that McCabe and Comey put together operating out of the seventh floor. I want to know why Flynn was being surveilled by the Obama administration to begin with. You know, the Obama administration is surveilling the National Security Adviser of the president-elect. What the HELL was that all about?”
Lady Lindsey BUTTFUCKER & DICK $UCKER^
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/04/republican-rep-matt-gaetz-confiscate-chinese-businesses-assets-as-punishment-for-coronavirus.html
You use the judicial process to put all of that in receivership,” he said.
“That’ll get China’s attention. That’ll hold them accountable. That will make the American people whole.”
Gaetz is just the latest Republican to support punishing China for Coronavirus. Such a move would likely have damaging economic effects, but his GOP colleagues are bringing forward a bill.
https://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-obama-administration-did-090034340.html
Another stand-up guy from the GOP.
So….they all know Trump fucked up big time with his dollar short, day late response and his poll numbers were going down like the walllstreet numbers so they gathered around a table and decided the fuhrer was not happy so they would go along with this conspiracy theory that people on the net were pimping out since day one. Its about Trump winning at all cost even if he can convince the American people of this latest story. Rather than believe in the power of microbes Trump is ging to go with they made this virus. Any bullshit Trump makes up people go with even if it is an obvious attempt to save his own lying fat ass.
drumpf’s threshold for ‘high degree” of confidence is if 2 taking heads at Fox tell him the same thing. Remember when all our intel agencies agreed Russia hacked the election but drumpf believed Putin instead.
https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2020/4/27/g7q5lmpntrq00q40yu5pvrnwulefqf
April 18, Sullivan went after China on his official Senate Twitter account, using some of the talking points from the spin doctors.
While saying that while he couldn’t reveal his sources, Sullivan said everyone should be skeptical of claims from the Chinese. He said the Chinese government isn’t transparent and that the Communist Party is mainly concerned with staying in power.
Meanwhile there doesn’t seem to be ANY evidence regarding Tara Reade. The Secretary of State refuses to release records and the Senate (I.E. Mitch McConnell) refuses to investigate. Because…I don’t know. It’s all bogus and they’d rather kill Biden with innuendo than prove he’s innocent?
https://news.yahoo.com/secretary-senate-says-office-cannot-155007118.html?guccounter=1
“The Secretary of the Senate on Monday said that her office cannot comply with Joe Biden’s request to disclose records pertaining to a complaint allegedly filed by former staffer Tara Reade.
“Based on the law’s strict confidentiality requirements…and the Senate’s own direction that disclosure of Senate records is not authorized if prohibited by law…Senate Legal Counsel advises that the Secretary has no discretion to disclose any such information as requested in Vice President Biden’s letter of May 1,” the office of the Senate Secretary said in a statement.
Biden has stated that the only possible place where Reade’s alleged complaint could be found is in Senate personnel archives. Reade, who accuses Biden of sexually assaulting her in Spring 1993, said she filed a complaint against Biden in which she alleged that the former Delaware senator engaged in inappropriate behavior, but didn’t mention the assault.
Biden denied the assault allegation on Friday.”
https://news.yahoo.com/senate-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-allegation-records-161043764.html
“Officials at the U.S. Senate said Monday that they do not have the legal authority to release records related to Tara Reade, who alleges presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden sexually assaulted her when she worked for him in the Senate in the early 1990s.”
“Biden initially said any records related to Reade would be housed at the National Archives, and asked the institution to release relevant documents if there were any.
But later Friday, the National Archives said: “Any records of Senate personnel complaints from 1993 would have remained under the control of the Senate. Accordingly, inquiries related to these records should be directed to the Senate.””
What’s the difference between Biden and Trump? Biden denies the allegation and requests disclosure of records. Trump brags about assault and covers up all evidence.
At this point there is no doubt in my mind. Tara Reade, for whatever reason, is making this shit up or at the very least criminally exaggerating what is likely a shoulder rub or some such Biden thing. Those who know Biden best say Reade’s accused behavior is inconsistent with Biden’s character. No one does this just once. They do it over and over. Which is why Trump is being sued by 30 women. So far.
Russia and Trump owe China HUGE $$
They will say and do ANYTHING (again)
To keep things “the way they are” 🙄
Yeah. You keep telling yourself that.
Let me know how that works out for ya!