State Department Probe Into Coronavirus Origin 'Suppressed,' Pompeo Says

Leah Barkoukis / Townhall Tipsheet

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday he faced pushback into probing the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus from both within his agency and from the National Institutes of Health.

"[NIH] folks were trying to suppress what we were doing at the State Department as well," he told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle,” adding that this was in addition to the pushback he normally received at the State Department from those who were against him and former President Trump.  

NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, however, recently said that he did not dismiss the possibility of a lab leak.

Pompeo said that while China “has no desire for the world to know what happened,” there is already a great deal that is known about what was taking place at the Wuhan lab.

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