Co-host of "The View" Sara Haines furthered the excuse Wednesday that the media shut down the hypothesis the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab because former President Donald Trump's administration was "the messenger." CORONAVIRUS LAB LEAK THEORY GROWS, SKEPTICAL OUTLETS WALK BACK INITIAL REPORTSOther outlets have also appeared to blame the Trump administration, instead of the media, for causing the lab-leak hypothesis to not appear credible. Earlier this week, the New York Times' Maggie Haberman and the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler made similar claims. "When that theory came out that it could have come from a lab, it came out under the former administration, and I think the messenger matters." Hostin said, after incorrectly stating Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., was pushing the theory that China had released the virus as a bioweapon.

Source: Fox News May 26, 2021 20:26 UTC