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Trump’s State Department Officials Fought Over Whether The Coronavirus Was A Chinese Bioweapon In the final days of the Trump government, the State Department was embroiled in a bitter dispute over China’s role in the origins of COVID-19 that’s now spilling into public opinion. In an open letter published on Medium on Thursday, Christopher Ford, former Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation, stated he intervened to prevent the US authorities from”embarrassing and discrediting” itself by accusing China of having intentionally engineered the coronavirus — despite there being no evidence to make that case. In a meeting with BuzzFeed News,...
