Thread by @RadioFreeTom

Liberals are being too quick to apologize for not accepting the "lab accident" theory. While I am not a liberal, I accepted the lab accident idea as totally possible back in April 2020. But I warned at the time that people like Tom Cotton were poisoning the well. /1

"Oh, Cotton never said 'bioweapon,' his defenders said, but as I pointed out at the time, this was a motte-and-bailey maneuver, where he played along with Bartiromo and implied that "We have similar labs run by the military." Cotton knew exactly what he was doing. /2

And I was concerned at the time that making off the wall accusations (and quitting WHO) would let China off the hook and complicate our ability to investigate this was a lab leak. But yet, liberals were too quick to just take the opposite of whatever Trump and Cotton said. /3

But let's cut the crap about how the right-wingers had a point. They were throwing shit against the wall to see what would stick in an effort to deflect blame from Trump, and in doing so, they complicated the work adults would need to do later. /4

Here's my thread from April 2020. I said at the time that a lab leak was quite possible - which was why it was a bad idea to go straight to Crazytown first. Liberals dismissed it because Cotton and Trump said it - but that's not all they said. /5x

https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1250163644194869250