President Trump’s CIA Just Set The Record Straight On The COVID-19 ‘Lab Leak’ Theory

Throughout the Biden administration, leftist politicians and so-called experts repeatedly claimed that there was no compelling evidence that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory.

Now that President Donald Trump, CIA Director John Ratcliffe is presenting a much different side of the story.

According to Fox News:

The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. Under its new director, John Ratcliffe, the agency released an assessment on the origins of COVID-19.

The review was ordered by former President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan toward the end of Biden’s time in office.

Analysts made the assessment with “low confidence” despite former CIA director Bill Burns, who remained agnostic on the origins, telling the agency it needed to look at the existing evidence again and come down on one side or the other.

The report represents another sign that America and its institutions appear to have decisively shifted away from the policies and politics of the past four years.

As for the lab leak theory, it has been the source of significant controversy for years. Unsurprisingly, the CIA’s recent report sparked significant social media response:

It's never a bad time to play this clip of Jon Stewart talking about the lab leak theory on the Colbert show in 2021, but today seems like a particularly good day to do it.

"There's been an outbreak of chocolaty goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania. What do you think happened?" pic.twitter.com/dCQAurNb1W

— i/o (@eyeslasho) January 25, 2025

Lab leak started // Lab leak going pic.twitter.com/JYwX7S5CJI

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) January 25, 2025

Here’s a video of the Media calling President Trump a racist for saying Covid came from China.

The CIA just admitted (what we all knew) that Covid came from a lab leak in China.

Trump was right. The media was wrong.
As usual…
pic.twitter.com/fifKhaVHGk

— C3 (@C_3C_3) January 25, 2025

The New York Post provided additional coverage of the CIA’s recent conclusion:

On his way out, former CIA Director William Burns had called on the agency to take a stance on COVID-19’s origins instead of staying neutral, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

Under Ratcliffe’s watch, the CIA decided to declassify that assessment.

Ratcliffe, 59, who served as the director of national intelligence (DNI) under the first Trump administration, had long favored the lab leak theory.

Now Langley joins the FBI and Energy Department, which runs a slew of labs and research facilities across the US in its assessment, in agreeing that a lab leak is the most likely origin.

Four other agencies still back the zoonotic theory — that the highly contagious virus naturally mutated from bats to infect humans, likely via intermediary like pangolins. The National Intelligence Council, a group of top intelligence officials that reports to the DNI also backed the zoonotic theory.

Here’s some more context surrounding the ongoing debate: