Mark Meadows: Fauci, Media Ignored Trump on COVID Lab Origins
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (center). (Chip Somodevilla/POOL/AFP via Getty)
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Friday, 18 June 2021 03:34 PM
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Friday accused Dr. Anthony Fauci and the mainstream media of ignoring former President Donald Trump last year on the origins of the coronavirus and instead siding with China.
"What actually should have happened is journalists should have done their job," Meadows told Fox News' "America's Newsroom. "There was a Pulitzer Prize waiting for somebody to report on it and candidly what they did is there was so much animosity toward Donald Trump, the president and his administration they weren’t willing to look at the facts."
Meadows' comment came in response to a statement from Harvard scientist Alina Chan, who told NBC News this week that at the beginnings of the pandemic, "it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn't want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins."
Meadows commented that the White House had shared information with a number of reporters, as well as with Fauci, but "in the end, Trump's adversaries were willing to ignore the details."
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