Michael Whitaker
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Putin Moves Toward Peace & JFK Files Released | 3.19.25
Hamas was actively recruiting, actively rearming and planning its next attacks across the border. So Israel concluded that the whole situation was untenable. And while the last thing it wanted to do was to endanger the lives of these hostages further, there was no choice but to ratchet up a military pressure on Hamas in the hope that it will actually come to the table and strike a deal.
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Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed & Cartel Drug Tunnels | Afternoon Update | 2.12.25
Who are the engineering firms in Mexico? Who has the intellectual capacity to build one of these sophisticated tunnels? Start looking at those companies and those architects and those engineers and working it from the Mexican side. But of course, that would require more cooperation from the Mexican government, which is another question.
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Black Sea Ceasefire & Signal Leak Hearing | Afternoon Update | 3.25.25
This sloppiness, this incompetence, this disrespect for our intelligence agencies and the personnel who work for them is entirely unacceptable. It's an embarrassment.
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
This is one of the most significant cover-ups. I mean, it's hard to find a bigger one.
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
Sure. I mean, what just got released was a memo sent from the former head of MI6, which is the UK's version of the CIA. And it was sent with a very well-known and respected professor from London School of Economics in early 2020 that essentially debunked this Nature article called proximal origin, which claimed to have debunked that the virus came from a lab.
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
We had done earlier reporting on this way back in 2023, showing that there was higher ups, to use the language of the key authors, Christian Anderson, who had basically changed the direction that they were going in their research. And so we already knew that this proximal origin paper was
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
Well, now we have this British memo, again, from the former head of MI6, saying that the Chinese government is engaged in an information and influence operation to deflect responsibility. The memo says, beyond a reasonable doubt, the Wuhan Institute of Virology retro-engineered a bat virus in January 2020.
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
We surmise that this was done to align with COVID-19 to sustain the natural causation narrative. So, you know, the implications of this memo conspiracy, I think it's the correct word in this case, are pretty significant because it would suggest that you now have the U.S., U.K., Chinese, and German governments who all knew that the virus escaped from the lab arguably as early as January.
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
And we had reported that the U.S. intelligence community had known, in fact, the names of the first three people to be infected by the COVID virus. And that didn't come out. So, I mean, this is significant both because it obviously implicates a number of senior American officials, including Anthony Fauci.
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
But it may have meant that our response to the virus may have been different had we known that it come from a lab. Yeah.
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
And it's worth noting that just a few days before the British announcement, two major newspapers in Germany revealed that the German Foreign Intelligence Service, their version of the CIA, had also believed that there was a 80 to 90 percent chance that the coronavirus had leaked from a Chinese lab.
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
Yeah, I mean, first I should say I don't know that I'm comfortable with this idea that you would revoke pardons. I just think that that opens up a whole Pandora's box that I don't think we want to do. And I appreciate the desire people have to get some revenge on Fauci. He certainly appears to have done wrong in many ways. But the most important thing is just to get the truth out.
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
And whatever it takes to do that, I think is important. And so I don't know what's possible legally, but I mean, we still don't have all the documents. I mean, we reported on a bunch of the documents, but there's just got to be a lot more there. There's probably more from various agencies, including the intelligence community.
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Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
But I think the priority should be on getting the truth out, not on prosecuting or incarcerating people that lied.
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Trump’s Canadian Tariff Win & NIH Vaccine Hesitancy Research | Afternoon Update | 3.11.25
We are in contact through the MCA with our American and Portuguese counterparts and have liaised with that. In terms of the counter pollution measures that he mentioned, the MCA say is standing by with marine and aerial counter pollution measures and will use them at the necessary time. But the immediate concern is to put out the fire on the Salong.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Back in 2012, after then-Governor Romney lost decisively to President Obama, people on both sides of the aisle believed that Democrats had created an unbeatable coalition of working-class voters, various minority groups, and college-educated whites.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
A party autopsy suggested that to win over new voters, the Republican Party would need to double down on fiscal conservatism, but moderate its stances on social issues, especially immigration.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Oh, exactly. Donald Trump came onto the scene in 2015 and flipped that advice on its head. Trump has dominated headlines since he came down that golden escalator in 2015. He's arguably been the main character of American politics for the last decade. But at the time, almost no one in the commentary thought he had a snowball's chance in hell.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Exactly. Trump's hardline stance on immigration, brash and confrontational style, and break with traditional orthodoxy on trade and foreign policy have drawn widespread criticism from the left and the right, but also have proved incredibly popular with large parts of the American electorate.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Trump made significant gains with working class voters and tilted the Republican Party in a more populist direction, breaking the Democrats' Midwestern blue wall in the process. His ability to market himself to low propensity voters through popular podcasts, most notably his appearance on Joe Rogan, also won him a lot of support with young voters, especially young men.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
And Trump made significant gains with Black and Hispanic voters as well, who Democratic strategists have counted on as key pillars of their party. While some wrote off his victory in 2016 as a fluke, many prominent voices on the left are now saying that the Democrats need to go back to the drawing board.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Well, it does take two at the tango. And arguably, the Democrats have been redefined by Trump almost as much as the Republicans have been, if not more so. They've been fiercely opposed to Trump from the beginning and spent much of the last few election cycles attacking him as uniquely unfit to be president. In many ways, President Biden was Donald Trump's opposite.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
That was arguably his main selling point. Biden spent his entire life in government. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 when he was only 29 years old, and he served in Congress until Obama tapped him as his running mate in 2008. In 2020, Biden ran as a moderate and initially promised to be a transitional candidate. Biden came into office with a relatively high approval rating.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
His early days were pitched to the American people as a return to normal. But the economic effects of prolonged COVID lockdowns and record deficit spending quickly caught up with the new commander-in-chief and would plague him for the rest of his term.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
I have three words, inflation, inflation, inflation. The Trump administration, for context, only saw an average year-over-year inflation rate of about 1.9%. During the Biden administration, the annual rate of inflation more than doubled to an average of 5.2%, and the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has declined by nearly 20% since Biden took office.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
But the economy was only Trump's second-strongest issue at the polls. Nearly 90% of voters who said that immigration was their top concern polled the lever for him. Many of Trump's immigration policies, including the Remain in Mexico policy, were reversed by the Biden administration, and Border Patrol estimates that there have been roughly 10 million border crossings since Biden took office.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
When voters went to the polls, they favored Trump over Harris on immigration by nine points.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Yes, that was a very unusual move. President Biden was the oldest man ever elected president, and many people were concerned that he might not be fit to serve a second term. Even during his first term, there was a great deal of speculation about his cognitive abilities. Viral videos circulated on social media of the president drifting off aimlessly and wandering around.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
But whether it was his age, a weak economy, or just a desire for change, there were rumblings within the Democratic base about a desire for a different candidate well before Biden announced he was running for re-election. However, Biden faced little to no opposition during the 2024 primaries. A few minor candidates, like Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips, attempted to sound the alarm.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Meanwhile, the most serious Democratic challenger, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., eventually defected from the party entirely after the DNC kept him off the ballot and refused to allow for any primary debates. He launched an independent campaign in October of 2023 and would go on to endorse Trump in August of 2024, which was itself a stunning political realignment.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
After clearing the primaries of no real opposition, support for Biden's campaign cratered in the wake of his first debate with Trump in June.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
The president appeared to be confused and tired, and concerns about his mental acuity were echoed in the mainstream press after years of largely being ignored. Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appears to have led an internal coup within the Democratic Party to force Biden out, out of concern that he might lead the party to a down-ballot wipeout.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Well, that's true, and maybe Democrats would have done better if they had stuck with Biden instead of swapping him out at the last minute. Or maybe they would have done even worse. It's hard to picture that alternate timeline, but it's possible.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Initially, there appears to have been some desire for a contested convention at the DNC, which may have produced a stronger candidate, or may have deepened fissures between rival factions ahead of a contentious election. But Biden endorsed Harris shortly after dropping out, and the rest of the party quickly bent the knee. Harris was coronated at the DNC despite never winning a single primary.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
She ran to the left of Biden in 2020 and dropped out before any ballots were cast. Harris had difficulty defining herself. She couldn't embrace the unpopular incumbent president, but she couldn't repudiate him as an active member of his administration.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
She also faced criticism for her reluctance to give long-form interviews to the press and for the lack of clarification of her stances on many issues, including immigration, fracking, I could go on. She was also criticized as a DEI hire who was selected on account of her race and sex, something Biden himself affirmed, albeit in a more positive tone.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Now that the dust has settled, many Democrats have harshly criticized Harris for a failed campaign, which received $1.5 billion in donations, yet still racked up more than $20 million in debt.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Yes, abortion has become a signature issue for many Democrats since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Democrats overperformed during the 2022 midterms, especially with single women.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Polling by Pew Research suggests that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, and pro-abortion initiatives have passed in Republican strongholds like Kansas and Ohio in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision. However, only 14% of voters said abortion was their top issue, even though they broke for Harris 3-1.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
It wasn't nearly as decisive as Democrats might have hoped for. Ironically, putting pro-abortion measures on state ballots in battleground states like Arizona and Florida might have hurt Democrats. Trump ran to the center on the issue, saying abortion should be left to the states.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
By making abortion a separate issue, some voters in these key states were able to vote against restrictions on abortion while also voting for Trump.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Oh, absolutely. Four separate felony cases, multiple civil lawsuits, and an effort by several states to kick him off the ballot just to rattle off the greatest hits. But instead of acting as a decisive issue, the cases turned out to be a political Rorschach test of sorts.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Trump's opponents argued that he was guilty of the array of charges brought against him, falsifying business records, sexual assault, inciting an insurrection, and that those charges ought to have been legally and morally disqualifying. Trump supporters, on the other hand, believed that the cases against Trump were politically motivated.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
They pointed to the novel legal reasoning underlying many of the prosecutors' arguments, past anti-Trump statements made by the prosecutors and the judges, and similar actions by other politicians that went without any kind of legal penalty.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Among other things, they cited past attempts by Democrats to challenge election results, and Biden's own alleged mishandling of classified documents while he was vice president. Biden was also investigated by the feds, but his case was ultimately dropped. For Democrats, the narrative that Trump was a Hilarion threat to the Republic was a central pillar of their campaign.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
While for Republicans, Trump's legal issues are proof that the political establishment was willing to weaponize the government against their opponents. That turned Trump into something of a martyr and somehow an even more polarizing figure than he was in past cycles.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Oh, yeah, that did happen. It says something about the last year that two near-death experiences fell out of the news cycle so quickly. But President Trump was almost killed on two separate occasions. Once in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a gunman nicked him in the ear, killed one of his supporters and hospitalized two others.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
And once in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the would-be killer was apprehended outside one of the president's golf courses. The assassination attempt did rally some prominent supporters to Trump's side, most notably Elon Musk, who became a vocal donor and fundraiser for the Trump campaign and is now set to play a prominent role in cutting the federal budget.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
Yeah, it wasn't that long ago that Elon was a donor for Democrats. Right. But that's all ancient history now. History is just old news.
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Election Earthquake: How Donald Trump Dominated 2024 | 12.29.24
That is an excellent question, certainly one the Democratic Party is going to be asking itself for a long time. But it's worth remembering that not too long ago, the Republicans were the ones in the political doghouse.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
In fact, that there was a slack channel that was essentially named after the lab leak that then they changed the name to Pangolin, which was imagined at the time to be the intermediary between bats and humans. And so we already knew that this proximal origin paper was manipulated, I would say, and that the people writing it were told by higher-ups to change their findings.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
Well, now we have this British memo, again, from the former head of MI6, saying that, a very extraordinary memo, actually, and the language was strong. It says that the Chinese government is engaged in an information and influence operation to deflect responsibility. The memo says, beyond a reasonable doubt, the Wuhan Institute of Virology retro-engineered a bat virus in January 2020.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
We surmise that this was done to align with COVID-19 to sustain the natural causation narrative. So, you know, the implications of this conspiracy, I think it's the correct word in this case, are pretty significant because it would suggest that you now have the US, UK, Chinese, and German governments who all knew that the virus escaped from the lab arguably in January, as early as January.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
And we had reported that the U.S. intelligence community had known, in fact, the names of the first three people to be infected by the COVID virus, and that didn't come out.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
So, I mean, this is significant both because it obviously implicates a number of senior American officials, including Anthony Fauci, but it may have meant that our response to the virus may have been different had we known that it had come from a lab.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
Yeah, and not only that, but that it was multiple agencies that knew that in the United States and then multiple intelligence agencies around the world.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
I mean, it's worth noting that just less than a week ago and just a few days before the British announcement, two major newspapers in Germany revealed that the German Foreign Intelligence Service, their version of the CIA, had also believed that there was a 80 to 90% chance that the coronavirus had leaked from a Chinese lab.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
So we don't know if that was all relying on the same intel or if it was different intel, but you certainly had many intelligence agencies in different countries all concluding the same thing.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
Yeah, oh, 100%. Nature's been behaving badly in a number of areas, basically showing that they have a political agenda that they put before science. But I mean, the entire scientific establishment is implicated by this. You know, the most important figure in it all is Anthony Fauci.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
You know, there's a video of him in 2020 saying, when I heard that this coronavirus had come from Wuhan, the first thing I thought was wet market. Well, I just... I mean, that's like absurd. He's the one that basically skirted the U.S. ban on coronavirus gain-of-function research, moved it to China, and moved it to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
So I'm sure that when he heard that there was a coronavirus here from Wuhan, his thought was not wet market. It was Wuhan Institute of Virology. And, oh, God, I can't believe that this happened. And, you know, you sort of see it, and he just looks...
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
You just kind of look at it now, obviously, in context, and it just appears to be this is one of the most significant cover-ups of the last 100, 200 years. I mean, it's hard to find a bigger one.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
Well, I think people are correctly angry because the person that wrote it is somebody who essentially got the CDC to reverse its position on masks. Now, we don't think that mask mandates had any effect. And of course, we think that they actually had a pretty significant negative effect, particularly on children. Obviously, it led to a whole set of culture wars. It became a kind of symbol.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
This is Zeynep Tufekci, who wrote this article. And so I I think, you know, the grammar in particular, which was we were badly misled, rubbed people the wrong way since people think that it was the New York Times who badly misled people.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
I mean, I observed something else, which I think is just as important, which is that the last several weeks we've had the media just raising the alarm that Trump is going to cut funding for medical research.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
There's actually a dispute about that because the real issue is that they're demanding that the National Institutes of Health reduce the so-called indirect costs, which are supposedly overhead, to just 15 percent of the project rather than, you know, in some cases it's 50 percent or more, which is just clearly overcharging. Well, here you have a very concrete situation where you have U.S.,
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
taxpayer funded medical research that, according to The New York Times now and everybody else, appears to have led to the coronavirus pandemic and then turning around and like literally in the same breath talking about how outrageous it is that Elon Musk would be auditing the agencies or that the Trump administration would be investigating whether the medical research is being well spent.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
In fact, Zeynep Tufekci criticized Elon just last month for how dare he be involved in this audit and there must be something nefarious. I mean, there's just a lack of self-awareness on the part of the media elites here that is pretty typical of their behavior. I mean... This is a situation where we need significantly more public and white executive branch oversight of our medical institutions.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
So for them to just turn around and pretend like none of this happened on COVID is particularly galling.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
Yeah, I mean, first I should say, I don't know that I'm comfortable with this idea that you would revoke pardons. I just think that that opens up a whole Pandora's box that I don't think we want to do. And I appreciate the desire people have to get some revenge on Fauci. He certainly appears to have done wrong in many ways. But the most important thing is just to get the truth out.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
And whatever it takes to do that, I think is important. And so I don't know what's possible legally, but I mean, we still don't have all the documents. I mean, we reported on a bunch of the documents, but there's just got to be a lot more there at NIH and at the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
There's probably more from various agencies, including the intelligence community. I mean, our sources were in the intelligence community. who told us that we had multiple sources.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
Later, we actually had another source that came out and said that the FBI knew since at least March of 2020 that COVID was the result of a lab leak, and that's because a Chinese national from Wuhan was working as a confidential human source for the FBI. And they told their handler at the FBI's Chinese intelligence squad, which means that probably the whole squad of 25 people knew.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
I mean, it's one of those things where in our other reporting as well on these things, you're always a little shocked by how many people knew and they were able to keep it a secret for so long. So we've got to get to the bottom of it. There was this idea spread by Fauci that, oh, we will probably never know where it came from. The evidence is trending in the direction where it appears that
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
There's a growing consensus, including from the folks that had said that the lab leak theory was racist. That was a New York Times reporter increasing consensus that it was a lab leak and that there is more evidence coming out. So I'm happy to see the president push for it.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
I don't think that I think the priority should be on getting the truth out, not on prosecuting or incarcerating people that lied.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
Sure. I mean, what just got released was a memo sent from the former head of MI6, which is the UK's version of the CIA. And it was sent with a very well-known and respected professor from London School of Economics in early 2020 that essentially debunked this Nature article called Proximal Origin, which claimed to have debunked that the virus came from a lab.
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Global Coverup? Fresh Claims on Covid Origins | 3.22.25
We had done earlier reporting on this way back in 2023, showing that There was higher ups, to use the language of the key authors, Christian Anderson, who had basically changed the direction that they were going in their research.
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Heathrow Fire & Nvidia Investment | Afternoon Update | 3.21.25
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang says the tech giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on US-made chips and electronics over the next four years, a major win for President Trump's America-first trade policies. NVIDIA is the latest tech company to shift supply chains away from Asia and back to the United States. Wang credits Trump's tariff threats and support for the AI industry for the shift.
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Heathrow Fire & Nvidia Investment | Afternoon Update | 3.21.25
noting that NVIDIA can now manufacture its latest BlackBull systems in the US with help from suppliers like TSMC, which recently announced its own $100 billion investment in Arizona. The move strengthens US supply chain resilience against risks like earthquakes in Taiwan or competition from Chinese tech giant Huawei.
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Heathrow Fire & Nvidia Investment | Afternoon Update | 3.21.25
Wang praised the administration for removing energy barriers to boost America's AI edge.
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Trump Defunds Maine & Eric Adams Stays | Afternoon Update | 2.21.25
Resident researcher Michael Whitaker has the techie details. Microsoft's new quantum chip, Majorana 1, reportedly uses extremely thin topoconductors to manipulate subatomic particles, creating a state of matter which, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, is neither solid, liquid, or gas.
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Trump Defunds Maine & Eric Adams Stays | Afternoon Update | 2.21.25
Qubits can encode and process exponentially more information than a classical bit by taking advantage of superposition, a property of quantum particles that allows them to exist in several states at once. Creating stable qubits has proved to be extraordinarily difficult. Right now, even the most advanced quantum computers only use about a thousand qubits.
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Trump Defunds Maine & Eric Adams Stays | Afternoon Update | 2.21.25
Microsoft claims that they now have a clear pathway to delivering a million qubit chip that can, quote, fit in the palm of one's hand. All the world's current computers operating together can't do what a one million qubit quantum computer will be able to do.