{"id":544933,"date":"2021-05-28T22:16:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544933"},"modified":"2021-05-28T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:50:20","slug":"ric-grenell-intelligence-community-presented-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-in-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ric-grenell-intelligence-community-presented-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-in-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Ric Grenell: Intelligence Community Presented Wuhan Lab Leak Theory in April 2020"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fric-grenell-intelligence-community-presented-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-in-april-2020%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=544933&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\/GetFile-553.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell on Friday pushed back on a suggestion that there wasn\u2019t intelligence available in early 2020 from the Trump administration about&nbsp;the COVID-19 Wuhan lab leak theory, saying the media and Washington lawmakers ignored intel because they didn\u2019t want to give former President Donald Trump a win &#8221;to define how COVID started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;If you go back to April 30, 2020, there is a statement that was issued when I was acting director of national intelligence that the entire intelligence community agreed to, and that\u2019s a very rare thing when you can get all of the agencies to sign off on every verb and every comma. But they did and they made three very critical points and, in that statement \u2013 it\u2019s still up on the DNI website \u2013 we said China was responsible for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the intelligence community 100 percent agreed across the board, that it either started in a Wuhan lab or in what we said animal to human transmission, which really means wet market,&#8221; Grenell said Friday during an appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/live\">Newsmax TV<\/a>\u2019s &#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/Shows\/Stinchfield\">Stinchfield<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We were very clear but the game in Washington was they didn\u2019t want to pick up on that statement, they didn\u2019t publish it, they didn\u2019t push it out like they should have because it would have given Donald Trump a win to define how COVID started, which was his clear statement that it started in China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Now we have Joe Biden pretending to instruct the intelligence community to go review documents and catch up. Let me be very clear, the intelligence community every day looks at documents. They don\u2019t need to be told to catch up or do a 90-day review. They do that review every single day. So, if one person is behind and wants a 90-day catch-up, it\u2019s Joe Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grenell also said current Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines should be questioned on why she hasn\u2019t been briefing President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Why is Joe Biden confused about what we know about COVID-19? Because the intelligence community doesn\u2019t hold anything back. They every single day evaluate and push forward. It\u2019s just some people aren\u2019t listening or some people are listening to The Washington Post when they have some leaker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden last week ordered a U.S. intelligence inquiry into the origins of the&nbsp;coronavirus after The Wall Street Journal said three researchers from China\u2019s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care. The first officially documented case of a COVID-19 infection was in early December.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;See&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/\"><span>Newsmax TV<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;now carried in more than 100 million U.S. homes, on&nbsp;<strong>DirecTV<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 349,&nbsp;<strong>Dish Network&nbsp;<\/strong>Ch. 216,&nbsp;<strong>Xfinity<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 1115,&nbsp;<strong>Spectrum, U-verse<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 1220,&nbsp;<strong>FiOS<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 615,&nbsp;<strong>Frontier<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 115,&nbsp;<strong>Optimum<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 102,&nbsp;<strong>Cox cable, Suddenlink<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 102,&nbsp;<strong>Mediacom<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch. 277,&nbsp;<strong>AT&amp;T TV<\/strong>&nbsp;Ch 349,&nbsp; <strong>FUBO<\/strong> and major OTT platforms like&nbsp;<strong>Roku<\/strong>, YouTube, Xumo, Pluto and most smart TV\u2019s including&nbsp;<strong>Samsung+<\/strong>, Sony, LG, Vizio and more \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Find All Systems that Carry Newsmax \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmaxtv.com\/findus\"><span>Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell on Friday pushed back on a suggestion that there wasn\u2019t intelligence available in early 2020 from the Trump administration about\u00a0the COVID-19 Wuhan lab &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313472,"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\/GetFile-553.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Ric Grenell: Intelligence Community Presented Wuhan Lab Leak Theory in April 2020","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544933","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\/GetFile-553.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Ric Grenell: Intelligence Community Presented Wuhan Lab Leak Theory in April 2020","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544933","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=544933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}