Rep. Michael McCaul said Wednesday he agrees with President Donald Trump on his contentions that the World Health Organization has acted too much in favor of China and should have its U.S. funding cut.
The Texas Republican also said he doesn't believe the organization can conduct an impartial investigation on the spread and origins of the coronavirus pandemic with Inspector General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in charge.
"The WHO, and particularly the inspector general has been a puppet of China," the Texas Republican said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "The Chinese Communist Party completely defied that and they covered it up through the month of December. They arrested and detained eight doctors and gagged them and silenced them and then you have the Chinese Communist Party that went into the laboratory and destroyed the lab samples in an attempt to control this investigation."
McCaul added that he couldn't see how there "could possibly (be) an independent investigation by the WHO if they are involved in this with Tedros at the helm of the ship."
"If you are in the private sector your number one job is to alert the world as to a global pandemic," he said. "(Tedros) utterly failed in that mission and is responsible for the situation that we are in right now. I would argue that he has to leave before the WHO can conduct any sort of independent investigation."
Further, McCaul said he questions whether the Chinese Communist Party will allow independent scientists into Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, "particularly after they destroyed a lot of the evidence."
The answers about whether the virus began at the Wuhan wildlife wet market or at a laboratory may also never be answered for sure, said McCaul, but "we do know that they failed in their job to alert the world."
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