Comment by Mike Pompeo

Former U.S. secretary of state and former CIA director
I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan
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AI Verified The quote directly says the virus came from “that laboratory in Wuhan,” which is the same lab-origin claim at issue in the ABC News article, so it clearly signals support for the complete statement rather than natural zoonotic spillover. ([abcnews.go.com](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pompeo-enormous-evidence-unproven-theory-coronavirus-lab/story?id=70472857&utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The quote says there is 'a significant amount of evidence' that COVID-19 'came from that laboratory in Wuhan,' which clearly supports a lab-origin explanation rather than natural zoonotic spillover; the ABC context also frames this as Pompeo pushing the lab-leak theory. ([abcnews.go.com](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pompeo-enormous-evidence-unproven-theory-coronavirus-lab/story?id=70472857&utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The quote appears verbatim in the ABC News article and is directly attributed to Mike Pompeo: “I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan.” The article is dated May 3, 2020, and matches the provided source URL. ([abcnews.go.com](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pompeo-enormous-evidence-unproven-theory-coronavirus-lab/story?id=70472857)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 1h ago
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