Donald Trump said "I think it’s safe to say that, for many in the scientific community, there was almost a kind of allergic reaction to the suggestion of a lab leak, because it sounded more like something that Donald Trump was trying to deploy as a political deflection to take attention off his own administration’s faulty responses to the pandemic." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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I think it’s safe to say that, for many in the scientific community, there was almost a kind of allergic reaction to the suggestion of a lab leak, because it sounded more like something that Donald Trump was trying to deploy as a political deflection to take attention off his own administration’s faulty responses to the pandemic.

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Donald Trump

Republican · Florida

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Editor's note · Context

Discussion on how Trump's rhetoric influenced the perception of the lab leak theory.

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