4. Rinse & repeat. How right-wing “investigative journalism” works in our post-truth era.

Like ignoring the Wuhan lab leak theory, or the hydroxychloriquine therapeutic, or saying that restricting travel from China was racist?

Yeah, the problem is conservative news....

1. Wuhan Lab wasn’t “ignored.” It was greeted with intense interest at first, then increasingly less so as initial research cast doubt on the hypothesis and it eventually came to be associated with the same people promoting the bag of Covid idiocy under which could be filed other things like HXQ shilling, anti-masking, anti-distancing, and anything that came out of Trump’s mouth on the subject.

2. Nope. HXQ wasn’t ever a treatment and still isn’t.

3. Restricting travel from China wasn’t “racist.” Anyone who thought that was stupid. But, that Trump policy was something else: destined to fail. And it did. Not to mention Trump’s “Kung Flu” and “China virus” terminology, it smacked of xenophobia and passing the buck. But the main thing about it was it simply didn’t work. 15 cases did not go down to zero. The virus was already on our shores and if it wasn’t, would have come in through Europe. Trump needed to focus right away on domestic preparedness, and he didn’t. He kept coming up with new excuses like the warm weather would kill it off and it would all be gone by Easter.

Manifest incompetence by Trump all around.

1. HAHAHAHA, ABC ADMITTED THAT THEY IGNORED IT BECAUSE TRUMP SAID IT!

https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker/status/1399013288491499522

2. Fauci emails say otherwise

3. Re-watch #1, they admit that they called his reaction to China "racist"

1. Trump, Pompeo, etc. are not credible sources. They promoted the Wuhan Lab theory for political reasons, without the necessary evidence for such a bombshell claim. The Wuhan Lab theory is still just a theory. It’s merely been upgraded from “conspiracy theory” thanks to new data. Trump does not get partial credit for this in light of everything else he got wrong about Covid. Broken clocks who are right twice a day still can’t tell time.

2. No, there is nothing in the Fauci emails promoting HXQ. Plenty from him suggesting it wasn’t effective.

3. I know some Democrats called it racist. Doesn’t matter. The policy didn’t work. People died. And with this hamfisted policy, Trump got everyone talking about race when it should have been about domestic preparedness. Leaders should lead, not divide.

Manifest incompetence.