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>>codech+(OP)
When Trump himself floated the lab-leak hypothesis last April, his divisiveness and lack of credibility made things more, not less, challenging for those seeking the truth.

Right, it's Trump's fault that the media and political opposition acted like children in opposing every word that came out of his mouth.

Apply that logic to your favorite left-leaning politician:

"The fact that Obama was always a natural born citizen would have been accepted by some Conservatives who thought he was born in Kenya, but the fact that Obama denied the claims that he was foreign-born made things worse."

When you're wrong, you're wrong. Try to own up to it without blaming the people who were actually right.

>>myfavo+761
And the villagers were the ones to blame in "the boy who cried wolf".

>>daugha+bC1
There was a need to rely on the boy who cried wolf at first, since he was the only one out in the fields.

There was never a need to rely on Trump. This was a pandemic. Basic journalistic curiosity and integrity should have meant that our "free" press should have been all over figuring out how COVID-19 came to be. Instead, they played politics with information that they could have easily looked into.