Fox Enterprise host Maria Bartiromo on Monday superior a logic-defying principle that China purposely unleashed COVID-19 on america to oust Donald Trump from the presidency and get Joe Biden into the White Home. (Watch the video beneath.)
Bartiromo and Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) had been discussing the declare that the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab and China tried to suppress the data. However Bartiromo took it a step additional.
“I imply, is there an opportunity that China launched this virus on America deliberately?” she requested. “Disrupt the nation, get Donald Trump out, get your man in there, Joe Biden, after which cowl it up?”
Wenstrup, who chairs a pandemic committee, didn’t absolutely chunk.
“Properly, they definitely didn’t attempt to defend America, did they?” he replied. “I imply, so whether or not it was intentional or unintended, they appeared to pay attention to it. And I could possibly be improper on this: President Xi was telling Donald Trump every little thing’s OK. And Donald Trump was repeating what President Xi mentioned. Now Democrats name President Trump a liar, however it appears President Trump was simply repeating what President Xi mentioned. Clearly, it was extra harmful.”
There are a couple of massive holes in Bartiromo’s hypothesis. Particularly, the virus inflicted loss of life and illness worldwide, not simply in america, as Wenstrup himself famous, in accordance with Mediaite.
And China was hit exhausting by the pandemic as nicely. So the upside for China in a far-fetched plot to unseat Trump for Biden isn’t actually obvious.
However information haven’t stopped Bartiromo from embracing or enabling conspiracy theories and pushing misinformation.
Wenstrup, who boosted claims the Chinese language had been engaged on bioweapons devised from the coronavirus, accused Democrats on the whole and former White Home chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci of ignoring the likelihood that the virus got here from a lab.
“I don’t perceive why Dr. Fauci wouldn’t wish to have the controversy over whether or not this got here from the lab or whether or not it got here from nature,” he mentioned, per Mediaite.
Fauci has repeatedly expressed assist for extra analysis into the origins of the virus however has doubted the lab principle.
