Tea at Trianon: Trump Vindicates “Conspiracy Theorists” on COVID-19 Origins

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Trump Vindicates “Conspiracy Theorists” on COVID-19 Origins

From AMAC:

As part of his promise to ensure the truth about COVID-19 – and the attempted cover-up of how it spread around the world – is told, the Trump White House recently removed federal government web pages related to the pandemic and replaced them with a flashy new landing page that reads, “LAB LEAK: The True Origins of COVID-19.”

The page provides a concise yet information-packed synopsis making the case for the lab leak hypothesis. It notes specifically, “The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature,” and “By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.”

Most of the details on the page come from the aforementioned House report, which was led by former Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

As the report notes, recent analysis of the COVID-19 virus contradicts the narrative forwarded by Dr. Fauci and others at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In a 2020 interview with National Geographic, Fauci stated that scientific evidence “very, very strongly” supported the idea that COVID-19 “could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.” Rather, the virus most likely “evolved in nature and then jumped species,” he said.

But according to the report, there was never any strong evidence to rule out a potential lab leak scenario. Wenstrup discloses that “more and more senior intelligence officials, politicians, science editors, and scientists increasingly have endorsed the hypothesis that COVID-19 emerged as the result of a laboratory or research-related accident.”

One such official is former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who testified before the subcommittee that evidence for the lab leak theory is “long, convincing, [and] even overwhelming,” in contrast to the “spillover” theory, for which evidence is “nearly empty and tenuous.”

The report also notes that the NIH “funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology” (WIV)—an allegation Fauci has continually denied.

An affiliation between the NIH and WIV is concerning, as scientists at the latter institute are known for creating “chimeras, or combinations of SARS-like coronaviruses through genetic engineering” and employing “reverse genetic cloning techniques on SARS-like coronaviruses.”

As the new White House webpage notes, summarizing the subcommittee’s report, “All COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans.” This differs from past pandemics, where there were multiple spillover events.” Moreover, WIV researchers exhibited symptoms of the virus months before the earliest cases were officially documented. (Read more.)