CBS’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lies About Mike Pompeo And Covers For Communist China

CBS News’ “60 Minutes” lied about claims from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, playing a partial clip from ABC’s “This Week” and sayi

As the U.S. took the lead for illness and death from coronavirus, the White House moved the focus to the Chinese government. Last Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attempted to resurrect a debunked theory that the virus was man-made in China. https://t.co/MZbfe4LeXi pic.twitter.com/bIjTRfboTg

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) May 10, 2020

ng he “attempted to resurrect a debunked theory that the virus was man-made in China.” CBS cut the ABC interview before Pompeo’s immediate on-air clarification.

“Look, the best experts so far seem to think it was man-made. I have no reason to disbelieve that at this point,” Pompeo said in response to ABC’s Martha Raddatz query about whether he believed the virus “was man-made or genetically modified” last Sunday.

Raddatz continued, “Your Office of the DNI says the consensus, the scientific consensus, was not man-made or genetically modified.”

“That’s right. I agree with that,” Pompeo replied. CBS cut the interview there, saying “Pompeo tried to have it both ways.” The “60 Minutes” segment omitted the secretary’s following clarification and Wuhan lab comments, which disproved CBS’s accusations that Pompeo was pushing “a debunked theory.”

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