{"id":554507,"date":"2021-06-06T14:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T18:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=554507"},"modified":"2021-06-06T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T18:35:16","slug":"pompeo-criticizes-media-for-covid-origins-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pompeo-criticizes-media-for-covid-origins-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo Criticizes Media For COVID Origins Reporting"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fpompeo-criticizes-media-for-covid-origins-reporting%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=554507&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\/06\/GetFile-295.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday blasted the mainstream media\u00a0for not wanting to \u201crock the boat\u201d on the origins of COVID-19 despite indications of a leak at a virology lab in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Fox News\u2019 \u201cSunday Morning Futures,\u201d Pompeo recalled efforts in the Trump administration to get to the bottom of the virus origin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was personally determined to\u00a0do everything I could to help in\u00a0any way I could to make sure\u00a0there were fewer loss of lives,\u00a0to understand where the virus\u00a0came from \u2014 another virus coming\u00a0from the lab or worse \u2014 if this was grossly negligent or\u00a0intentional,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But, Pompeo lamented, \u201cthe consensus here\u00a0in Swamp Town was that this was\u00a0something that we shouldn&#8217;t take\u00a0a look at and not worth\u00a0questioning whether The New\u00a0York Times and the Washington\u00a0Post, they poo-pooed anybody who\u00a0talked about the lab&#8230; they didn&#8217;t want to\u00a0rock the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo also criticized White House medical adviser and former coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci for<b> <\/b>his reluctance to blame China for its role in spread of virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I hear someone like Dr. Fauci use talking points\u00a0that could come from the Chinese\u00a0Communist Party foreign ministry\u00a0is something that&#8217;s inconsistent\u00a0with making sure we get it right\u00a0in the United States of America,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ought to get to the bottom of\u00a0it,\u201d Pompeo said of the COVID-19 origin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when folks find it hard to\u00a0criticize the Chinese Communist\u00a0Party with all that they have\u00a0done, the genocide\u2026 or what they did to the people\u00a0of Hong Kong, when it&#8217;s hard to\u00a0criticize the Chinese Communist\u00a0Party \u2014 it&#8217;s very difficult to\u00a0understand,\u201d Pompeo said.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related Stories:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday blasted the mainstream media\u00a0for not wanting to \u201crock the boat\u201d on the origins of COVID-19 despite indications of a leak at a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279375,"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\/06\/GetFile-295.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Pompeo Criticizes Media For COVID Origins Reporting","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-295.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Pompeo Criticizes Media For COVID Origins Reporting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554507","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=554507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}