They are deliberately trying to conflate the claim that Trump is making (and which is totally obvious by the way) that the virus escaped from the lab in Wuhan with the claim that the virus was created through genetic modification in the lab.
Normally I'd think they were doing this to make Trump look bad, but here they are employing the Clinton playbook to defend their paymasters in China. The Clinton playbook was that whenever someone accuses you of something, get Sidney Blumethal or Dick Morris to start a rumor that you did something ten times worse. Then conflate the two, then disprove the bigger fake allegation and say the whole thing was a lie, and by the way what does it matter anymore.
The lying liars at the New York Times are even ignoring their own reporting, which is linked in their own fake news article:
Speaking on the ABC program “This Week,” Mr. Pompeo, the former C.I.A. chief and one of the senior administration officials who is most hawkish on dealing with China, said that “there’s enormous evidence” that the coronavirus came from the lab, though he agreed with the intelligence assessment that there was no indication that the virus was man-made or genetically modified.
This is beyond fake news. This is deliberate head-fake news.
“Mr. Trump”?
I guess that’s like Mr. “Obozo”
"Most"? Not just "some"? Usually, "some" is enough for The Fake News Media to run with an anti-Trump screed. Show us the math. Not that I don't trust you.
Democrats, the media and NeverTrumper Repukes all have dirty hands in this. The media’s continuing protection of the CCP should not shock any of us.
In order to escape from a lab, there is no requirement that it be "man-made or genetically modified." So the Times creates a fake narrative that Pompeo didn't say in order to refute an argument that was not made.
Regardless of whether it came from a lab or a meat market, China made no serious efforts to contain it, downplayed how serious it was - with assistance from the WHO - and allowed it spread throughout the world without self-restricting its own travel. This crisis either would not have occurred at all, or would have been considerably less severe had they been up front immediately and warned of the danger from the start.