Pompeo and Sen. Paul Issue Warning on Wuhan Lab Still ‘Up and Running’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced warnings to the public over the weekend that the Wuhan Institute of Virology remains functional and that controversial activity may have happened there. “I’m very worried that this stuff still goes on and that the U.S. government’s been funding it,” Paul said in an appearance on Fox. Last week, an amendment introduced by Paul to ban the use of U.S. tax dollars to fund “gain-of-function” research in China passed in the Senate, with every Democrat voting in favor of it. This unanimous vote led Paul to think that they either have relevant information or that the information pointing at the theory of the virus coming out from the lab will grow stronger. “A year ago, anybody who mentioned the possibility that this virus came out of the Wuhan lab was dismissed as crazy right-wing kooks, [or] conspiracy …