Rep. Moulton: ‘Not Entirely Surprised’ by Energy Department’s COVID Lab Leak Assessment

Rep. Moulton: ‘Not Entirely Surprised’ by Energy Department’s COVID Lab Leak Assessment
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) descends the House entrance stairs following the Friends of Ireland reception on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 12, 2020. Tom Brenner/Reuters
Jackson Richman
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Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said he was “not entirely surprised” by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) assessment that a lab leak was the likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I’m not entirely surprised. The Chinese have mishandled COVID at every step of the way by trying to sweep it under the rug. Trying to try a strategy of zero COVID that utterly failed,” Moulton told CNN on Feb. 26. “And tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Chinese are dead as a result of the mismanagement of this pandemic by the Chinese Communist Party.

Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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