Sen. Graham: Scientists Played Politics With Lab Leak Denial Document
District of Columbia | June 9, 2021
Sen. Lindsey Graham says scientists who signed a letter last year claiming the coronavirus causing COVID-19 jumped naturally from animals to humans had put out a political document “trying to destroy the credibility” of then-President Donald Trump and others who argued the pandemic-causing disease had leaked from a Chinese lab.
“The media took it and ran, and it changed the course of the election,” Graham told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Tuesday night. “Why? Because number one, the scientists are tied to this lab. They were covering their a**. They put out a letter not based on science, but a political document trying to destroy the credibility of people who suggested it came out of a lab.”
The February 2020 statement, which was signed by 27 scientists and published in the British medical journal The Lancet, dismissed “conspiracy theories” that the virus had leaked out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. ..
(Excerpts from Newsmax)