{"id":1861389,"date":"2023-02-26T19:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1861389"},"modified":"2023-02-26T19:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:50:48","slug":"ted-cruz-torches-the-washington-posts-fact-checker-over-new-chinese-lab-leak-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-torches-the-washington-posts-fact-checker-over-new-chinese-lab-leak-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Torches The Washington Post\u2019s Fact-Checker Over New Chinese Lab Leak Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fted-cruz-torches-the-washington-posts-fact-checker-over-new-chinese-lab-leak-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1861389&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>On Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R. Texas) made fun of Glenn Kessler, Washington Post fact-checker, for releasing a U.S. Intelligence report showing that one federal agency believes the coronavirus outbreak originated from a Chinese lab accident.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Energy Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a\">Conclusion<\/a> According to The Wall Street Journal, the source of the pandemic&#8217;s origin was likely a laboratory leak in Wuhan (China), The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The FBI believes the pandemic also originated from a Chinese laboratory leak.<\/p>\n<p>This conclusion was based on newly discovered intelligence &#8220;and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research,&#8221; The report was updated.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz responded to Kessler\u2019s tweet in May 2020. He claimed it was &#8220;doubtful&#8221; The pandemic was caused by a laboratory leak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2018Amazing&#8217; is definitely right word for this video. WaPo \u2018abandoning all pretenses of journalism to produce CCP propaganda&#8217; would be another way to put it,&#8221; Cruz replied. &#8220;If this reporter submitted this video in a freshman logic class, it wouldn&#8217;t receive a passing grade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz posted a long thread in which he explained everything he knew at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fear @tedcruz missed the scientific animation in the video that shows how it is virtually impossible for this virus jump from the lab,&#8221; Kessler replied at the time. &#8220;Or the many interviews with actual scientists. We deal in facts, and viewers can judge for themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz replied to Sunday&#8217;s tweet with a screenshot from The Wall Street Journal, which included the title. &#8220;Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;4 \ud83e\udd21&#8217;s for Glenn,&#8221; Cruz replied.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"no\" dir=\"ltr\">4 \ud83e\udd21&#8217;s for Glenn. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/587JmvrIOE\">https:\/\/t.co\/587JmvrIOE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K0pO6BPvxp\">pic.twitter.com\/K0pO6BPvxp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1629920895740329992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steve Guest, Special Advisor in Communications for Cruz, also hit Kessler over the report online, calling it &#8220;Kessler&#8217;s BIGGEST MISS ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Glenn Kessler&#8217;s Biggest MISSEVER:<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal report said &#8220;Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Kessler tweets: &#8220;I fear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tedcruz<\/a> missed the scientific animation in the video that shows how it is virtually impossible for\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j7PILxmWGk\">https:\/\/t.co\/j7PILxmWGk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/10GQYmXsex\">pic.twitter.com\/10GQYmXsex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1629851392369123329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mocked Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler on Sunday over the release of a new U.S. intelligence report that shows that one federal agency believes that the coronavirus pandemic originated from a Chinese lab leak. The U.S. Energy Department concluded that the origin of the pandemic was likely a lab leak in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1861392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4117,4105,8125,8459,3654,5330,3819,6199,6865,4086],"class_list":["post-1861389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-chinese","tag-cruz","tag-fact-checker","tag-lab","tag-leak","tag-posts","tag-report","tag-ted","tag-torches","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1861392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}