Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) joined ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ on Fox News to discuss the latest on the origins of COVID, political bias within Twitter, and the politicization within the FBI and DOJ.
“So the fundamental question is, why was Dr. Fauci so consumed with making sure the narrative wasn’t about the lab?” Jordan asked host Maria Bartiromo.
“I think it’s because they were doing gain-of-function research there. He didn’t want that out, and that was the narrative that everyone to the left bought into – even though the facts and common sense, maybe most importantly, pointed to the lab leak theory.” he added.
Both the Energy Department and the FBI previously suggested the virus likely originated from a lab leak in China, which was a theory largely disregarded by the mainstream media as a conspiracy.
But since both government agencies have aligned on the issue, Congress has taken action to ultimately get answers on how the pandemic first began.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic will hold its first hearing on the pandemic’s origins on March 8.
“At the hearing, we will gather facts about the origination of the virus that has claimed nearly seven million lives globally,” the committee said in a tweet last week.
Jordan also called out the Biden administration for its handling of COVID, noting how previously peddled narratives have turned out to be false.
But many critics have also slammed the media for its assistance in peddling now-debunked narratives surrounding COVID.
One of those critics is Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who coined the real danger as the “conspiracy of silence,” on Fox News last week.
“The only conspiracy back in the earlier, early part of 2020 was a conspiracy of silence among liberals in the media and the federal bureaucracy and Democrats in Congress to try to suppress the common sense evidence-based conclusion that so many Arkansans had reached is that the Chinese Communists were responsible because of their negligent practices in this lab for unleashing this pandemic on the world,” Cotton told Bartiromo on Fox Business.
“That’s the only conspiracy… theory that was circulating around, and unfortunately, you still see, in some degree, that conspiracy of silence,” he concluded.