Corporate media fixture Chris Cillizza is admitting President Donald J. Trump was correct about the Chinese lab origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and that former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, was wrong to dismiss the possibility. In a mea culpa posted on X (formerly Twitter), Cillizza—a former CNN reporter and editor-at-large—laments that he and his corporate media colleagues were duped by Fauci and other public health officials.
“My belief back then was that if this was a debate between Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci on the origins of a pandemic-level virus, I was going to go with the guy who spent his entire career studying this stuff, not the reality TV-star-turned-president,” the former CNN reporter writes. “Except, it now appears that the reality TV-star-turned-president was right. And Anthony Fauci was wrong.”
The National Pulse previously reported the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic revealed that Fauci was snuck into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters to influence their findings on the origins of COVID-19. Under the Biden government, intelligence community officials were dismissive of evidence the COVID-19 pandemic was caused by a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. However, the CIA has reversed course and, over this past weekend, stated the pandemic was likely the result of the mishandling of virus samples at the Wuhan lab.
“I deferred to expert voices at a moment—May 2020—when even they were making it up on the fly,” Cillizza admits, while defending his past reporting in light of the CIA’s determination on the pandemic origins. He adds: “The other major mistake I made was that I let my belief that Trump just, well, said stuff, get in the way of the possibility that he could be right.”
