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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 08:52 PM Apr 2020

Trump Claims Evidence Virus Began In Chinese Lab

Trump Claims Evidence Virus Began In Chinese Lab

April 30, 2020 at 8:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/30/trump-claims-evidence-virus-began-in-wuhan-lab/

"SNIP......

President Trump contradicted a rare on-the-record statement from his own intelligence community by claiming that he has seen evidence that gives him a “high degree of confidence” the novel coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, CNN reports.

The comments undercut a public statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued just hours earlier which stated no such assessment has been made

......SNIP"

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Trump Claims Evidence Virus Began In Chinese Lab (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2020 OP
And Obama was born in Kenya dalton99a Apr 2020 #1
It is pure distraction & diversion from tRump's failure to defend American lives Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #2
Prove it, COVID-45. roamer65 Apr 2020 #3
GOP strategy is the blame China for everything. clutterbox1830 Apr 2020 #4
"Don't defend Dump..." superpatriotman Apr 2020 #7
Word has it... Newest Reality Apr 2020 #5
Know how I know that's bullshit? Theres no such thing as an overweight viper. Volaris Apr 2020 #9
i read something about this weeks ago....... Takket Apr 2020 #6
Thanks. applegrove Apr 2020 #12
And his cult followers Andy823 Apr 2020 #8
From my childhood best friend who is a Phd in Bioengineering Trenzalore Apr 2020 #10
Actually, it rode in on horses...DOH! Newest Reality Apr 2020 #11

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
2. It is pure distraction & diversion from tRump's failure to defend American lives
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 08:55 PM
Apr 2020

He did not believe US Intell but did believe WHO and Chhy-nuh. Now he says China and the WHO lied. He can't have it both ways.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
5. Word has it...
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 09:04 PM
Apr 2020

He was created in a lab using viper zygotes fused with human. He is a failed genetic experiment that got loose. They decided to let him continue to see how it would work out and here we are.

Takket

(21,425 posts)
6. i read something about this weeks ago.......
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 09:05 PM
Apr 2020

basically some virologists studied the virus and said it was too dissimilar from existing known viruses to be artificial. because if you were going to engineer a virus you would do it using an existing virus as a template to tweak. sort of like is someone asked you to build a 1000 horsepower auto engine you aren't going try to invent a completely new technology, you are going to start with an existing engine design and try to tweak it up to what you need.

https://www.biospace.com/article/stop-the-conspiracy-theories-novel-coronavirus-has-natural-origin/

from the article:

Additional evidence of natural evolution was data on the virus’s overall molecular structure. Typically, if a researcher was engineering a new coronavirus as a pathogen or biological warfare agent, they build it on the backbone of a virus that is already identified as causing disease. In the case of SARS-CoV-2, their research showed that the SARS-CoV-2 backbone was quite different from known coronaviruses and more closely resembled viruses found in bats and pangolins.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
8. And his cult followers
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 09:06 PM
Apr 2020

believe everything he says. Telling the same lie over and over to the "cult" is how cult leaders control things. He will never stop lying.

Trenzalore

(2,331 posts)
10. From my childhood best friend who is a Phd in Bioengineering
Thu Apr 30, 2020, 09:11 PM
Apr 2020

if the virus was genetically engineered it would be pretty obvious.

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