White House embraces lab leak as 'true' pandemic origin, axes covid website

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : "We're very proud of our work," said Wenstrup, who Trump appointed to a presidential intelligence advisory board earlier this year.
47% : But by June 2021, majorities of Democrats and Republicans believed that a laboratory leak in China had sparked the pandemic, according to a poll conducted by Politico-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
42% : "President Trump is rightfully providing the American people with the truth about the COVID-19 pandemic," Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who chairs the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement.
32% : Trump in January ended Fauci's government-provided security detail after nearly five years, saying that former government officials should not expect security for the rest of their lives.
24% : Trump and his allies have blamed advice from Fauci and other federal officials for some of the harshest measures, such as social distancing rules that led to school shutdowns and business closures.
21% : States are currently fighting the Trump administration's attempt to claw back more than $11 billion in coronavirus funds from their health departments, saying it will weaken their ability to respond to public health threats.

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