New White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t spare any feelings in the briefing room on Friday. When answering a question about the White House’s response to the CIA’s announcement that it believes, with low confidence, that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, Leavitt made representatives of the legacy media squirm in their newly assigned seats
“Several years ago, when I was working in this press shop, and President Trump would take to this podium to brief the American people on COVID-19, he suggested that COVID well may have come from a lab in Wuhan, China,” said Leavitt, “and many members in this very room mocked him for that said he was spewing conspiracy theories. He was not. We now know that to be the confirmable truth, it took many years for it to come out, but the president was right in this instance again.”
Longtime skeptics of the…
