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2023-02-28 13:54:18 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E3EF821C6B09BE6B4AB1AD91C16B30F96C06BF8420732FABFD2FE1C1DEA82C84
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The Trump administration supported the idea of Covid-19 being released from a lab in Wuhan. Many media entities critical of the Trump administration published articles to that effect. The concern of a lab leak caused much internal political turmoil. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/15/wuhan-lab-trump-officials-covid-494700 https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/05/26/biden-team-shut-down-secretive-trump-era-project-pursuing-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory/?sh=3768bf187fdd https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins
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