Former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on the “Ingraham Angle” last night with Laura Ingraham and said that officials from the National Institutes of Health had tried to suppress the work that his people had been doing in the State Department to uncover the question about a potential Wuhan lab leak.

The former Sec of State told #IngrahamAngle that high-ranking career officials in the USG deliberately blocked efforts to learn whether the CCP took money from US taxpayers and used it to fund research that killed millions of people around the world. https://t.co/wWFqMkBzfO

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) June 4, 2021

“To hear Fauci this morning talk about how the Chinese have an interest in us discovering what happened is just crazy talk. The Chinese have a deep interest in covering it up. They have done so pretty darn effectively,” Pompeo declared.

“He implies good faith for the Chinese Communist Party: We are on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square. For Dr. Fauci to go out and think the CCP cared that there were people in Wuhan who were dying….is just naïve beyond all possible imagination.”

As we reported, Fauci refused to even go after China during his interview yesterday morning saying that might cause them to pull back. As if they hadn’t already been “pulling back” and covering up all this time. That’s what Pompeo meant by “naive.”

Pompeo said the State Department put out information on Jan. 15 indicating that it probably did come from a lab, based upon the information that they had uncovered, despite folks at NIH who were trying to suppress what they were doing as well, he said. That in and of itself is a troubling accusation: Why was NIH trying to suppress their work? Could that be because of the gain of function questions?

Pompeo said there were folks all over the intel community who didn’t want to talk about it, who didn’t want to know that the Chinese Communist Party was in the process of covering up aspects of what had occurred.

Pompeo also said there was a lot of evidence pointing to what happened — from the lab having issues before to the researchers at the lab getting sick in the fall of 2019. He said there was military activity of some type going on there that they don’t know about, as well, but that the Chinese don’t want us to know what happened in regard to the virus, so they should receive no benefit of the doubt. Pompeo’s take was far different from that of Fauci. Pompeo said we should impose “enormous cost” on China until they come clean.

While the State Department was clearly fighting upstream to get the information out there, in the face of the folks wanting to dismiss it, it was still able to go on and we need to hear more publicly about what efforts were made to suppress the investigation.

But when Joe Biden came in, as we previously reported, they shut down the State Department investigation into the lab leak theory.

It sounds like what the State Department was looking into was making some people very nervous. Thankfully, finally, now the information is getting out there. But there needs to be a complete accounting for anyone who stood in the way of this or tried to suppress it.