CNN's Keilar: Fauci 'Never Said' COVID Didn't Come from Lab, Trump Pushed It 'as He Made Racist Comments' That Increased Hate Crimes

On Tuesday's broadcast of CNN's "New Day," co-host Brianna Keilar said that White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci "never said that COVID-19 did not come from a lab. What he said was there was no scientific evidence supporting that it did." And that for former President Donald Trump, the lab leak theory "was less about finding the truth and more about finding a scapegoat as he made racist comments deflecting from his own poor political performance and coincided with higher rates of hate crimes against Asian Americans."