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Did Covid Come From the Lab? Mike Pompeo says Yes.
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Did Covid Come From the Lab? Mike Pompeo says Yes.
Bari Weiss
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An interview with the former secretary of state about the virus, China's ambitions, Iran, Israel, and the future of America.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the Great Hall of the People on June 2018 in Beijing. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

Did the Covid-19 virus come from a lab in Wuhan, China?

To ask that question in public was, until recently, to out yourself as a person wearing a tinfoil hat. It was nothing more than a far-right crackpo…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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