{"id":542349,"date":"2021-05-26T23:20:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542349"},"modified":"2021-05-26T23:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:20:19","slug":"debunked-bunkum-poorly-aging-highlight-reel-shows-trump-critics-mocking-lab-leak-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debunked-bunkum-poorly-aging-highlight-reel-shows-trump-critics-mocking-lab-leak-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Debunked Bunkum\u2019: Poorly-Aging Highlight Reel Shows Trump Critics Mocking Lab-Leak Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fdebunked-bunkum-poorly-aging-highlight-reel-shows-trump-critics-mocking-lab-leak-theory%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=542349&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-26-at-9.46.47-PM-e1622083655476.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"39.165818921668\">\n<p>Grabien founder Tom Elliott released a supercut Wednesday that showed a series of media personalities dismissing the possibility that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab.<\/p>\n<p>The video began with a few clips of people \u2014 such as Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and former President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/joy-behar-trump-scapegoated-china-lucky-break-he-was-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u2014 suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 could have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/dagen-mcdowell-media-blew-off-lab-leak-theory-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaked<\/a> from a Wuhan laboratory where bat coronaviruses were being studied. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/21\/russian-bounties-find-the-fraud-lab-leak-theory-media-narratives\/\">(RELATED: Russian Bounties, Find The Fraud, Lab Leak Theory: Here Are All The Media Narratives That Fell Apart)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following those, however, came clips of media personalities and experts \u2014 from MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid and Al Sharpton to CNN\u2019s John Harwood and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/24\/fauci-lab-leak-covid-19-wuhan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Anthony Fauci<\/a> \u2014 claiming that the evidence did not point to coronavirus leaking from a lab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.0394736842105\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SUPERCUT!<\/p>\n<p>Media mock Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomCottonAR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TomCottonAR<\/a> for \u201cdebunked\u201d Covid lab leak theory <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nb0621y2e7\">pic.twitter.com\/nb0621y2e7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1397665146462523399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A CNN segment framed the lab leak theory as a \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d that had been generated to fill the void left by a lack of direct evidence. MSNBC\u2019s Kasie Hunt announced that concerns about the virus leaking from a lab had been \u201cdebunked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported that Trump was pressing the intelligence community to find a link between the spread of the virus and labs like the Wuhan Institute of Virology, while MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid accused the former president of pushing \u201cdebunked bunkum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One MSNBC guest suggested that Trump\u2019s goal was to foment xenophobia with respect to the Chinese, and another claimed he was trying to \u201cchange the narrative from his own failings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of news that three patients from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were treated in November of 2019 after exhibiting coronavirus symptoms, many in media have suddenly begun to revisit the idea that the virus could have originated in a lab.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has called for a full investigation into the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/25\/china-murdered-my-father-in-law-greg-gutfeld-says-media-bullied-people-dismissing-lab-leak-theory-trump-hatred\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pandemic\u2019s origins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grabien founder Tom Elliott released a supercut Wednesday that showed a series of media personalities dismissing the possibility that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab. The video &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313215,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-26-at-9.46.47-PM-e1622083655476.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Debunked Bunkum\u2019: Poorly-Aging Highlight Reel Shows Trump Critics Mocking Lab-Leak Theory","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-26-at-9.46.47-PM-e1622083655476.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Debunked Bunkum\u2019: Poorly-Aging Highlight Reel Shows Trump Critics Mocking Lab-Leak Theory","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542349","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}