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Biden Admin Shut Down Probe Launched During Trump Era To Examine Wuhan Lab Leak Theory, Report Says

Ryan Saavedra
Biden Admin Shut Down Probe Launched During Trump Era To Examine Wuhan Lab Leak Theory, Report Says
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Democrat President Joe Biden’s team shut down an investigation launched by then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s State Department into whether the coronavirus pandemic originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The effort was focused on looking at whether China’s biological weapons program could have had a “greater role in the pandemic’s origin in Wuhan,” CNN reported. The probe was run out of the State Department’s arms control and verification bureau.

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