ABC’s Jon Karl Forced to Admit Trump May Have Been Right About the Origins of COVID-19

ABC’s Jon Karl sparred often with Donald Trump when he was the president and Karl was working as a White House news reporter.

At one point last April, when COVID-19 was just ramping up, Trump called Karl a “third-rate reporter” after Karl left out information when asking a question.

Karl is now out of the White House briefing room and was part of a roundtable discussion this morning on ABC’s program “This Week” and during a discussion about the origins of COVID-19, Karl was forced to admit that Trump may have been right.

A clip begins with Karl saying, “And yes, I think a lot of people have egg on their face, this was an idea that was first put forward by Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, Donald Trump, and look, some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them.”

Karl then stutters, looking for the right explanation and suggests, “Because Trump was saying so much else that was just out of control and because he was making a frankly racist appeal, talking about Kung-flu and the Chinavirus.”

“His notion put forward, that this may have, or no he said flatly that this came from that lab was widely dismissed, but actually, there’s some real reason,” Karl continued.

Karl then attempted to slightly backtrack by concluding, “We don’t know, by the way, we still don’t know, we absolutely don’t know, but now serious people are saying that this needs some serious inquiry.”

“Some things may be true even if Donald Trump said them” – ABC’s @JonKarl re origin of COVID-19 pandemic. #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/voC1ISBv4X

— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) May 30, 2021

It is hard to know exactly who could be more serious than the Secretary of State or the President of the United States, but since Dr. Anthony Fauci, for example, has suggested it, that is likely one of the “serious people” he is referring to.

Last April, Fauci “rejected a conspiracy theory that the novel coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab” and said that the available evidence on the origins of the virus is “totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”

Fox News and Republican allies of President Donald Trump were accused of “pushing the lab narrative, despite a lack of hard evidence to back it up.”