Leavitt reminded a room full of smug White House reporters that President Trump’s so-called “conspiracy theory” about the COVID lab leak turned out to be true, as confirmed by the CIA’s recent assessment favoring the lab leak theory as the most likely origin of the virus.

“Several years ago... President Trump would take to this podium to brief the American people on COVID-19, he suggested that COVID very well may have come from a lab in Wuhan, China, and many members in this very room mocked him for that.

“Said he was spewing conspiracy theories. He was not. We now know that to be the confirmable truth. It took many years for it to come out, but the president was right in this instance—again,” Leavitt said.