Mike Pompeo: China Made This Virus Much Worse Than It Had To Be

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POMPEO: "The best experts so far seem to think it was manmade. I have no reason to disbelieve that at this point. The Chinese communist party had the opportunity to prevent all of the calamity that has befallen the world. And here we find ourselves today, you and I were talking how we haven't seen each other physically in a long time. That's true. People all across the world. This is an enormous crisis created by the fact that the Chinese Communist Party reverted to form, reverted to the kinds of disinformation, the kinds of concealment that authoritarian regimes do. If those scientists had been operating in America, they would have put this out, there would have been an exchange of ideas, and we would have quickly identified the kinds of things that needed to be done in response. Instead, China behaved like authoritarian regimes do, attempted to conceal and hide and confuse, employ the World Health Organization as a tool to do the same. These are the kind of things that have now presented this enormous crisis and enormous loss of life and tremendous economic cost all across the globe. The Australians agree with that. You hear the Europeans beginning to say the same thing. I think the whole world is united in understanding that China brought this virus to the world."