WaPo reporter: Media dismissed Wuhan lab leak as 'conspiracy theory' because Trump was talking about it

Flip By Andrew Kerr The corporate press spent the better part of a year calling the lab leak theory a conspiracy because former President Donald Trump talked about it, according to Washington Post senior reporter Aaron Blake. "Given everything we know about how Trump handled such things, caution and skepticism were invited. That (very much warranted) caution and skepticism spilled over into some oversimplification, particularly when it came to summarizing the often more circumspect reporting," Blake wrote. Blake said the Trump administration provided no evidence to back up its early claims that it had evidence showing COVID-19 originated from a…