The politicization of COVID-19 in America during the 2020 presidential election cycle ultimately led to worldwide skepticism that the intelligence was a “radioactive American political issue,” according to a report.

Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly shared evidence of a Chinese cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic with the U.K. before former President Donald Trump left office in January 2021, but American politicization made recipients of the Five Eyes’ intelligence sharing skeptical of it, The Telegraph reported Sunday.

“We saw several pieces of information and thought that they were, frankly, gobsmacking,” a former intelligence official who worked on the report shared by Pompeo with the U.K. told the Telegraph. “They obviously pointed to the high likelihood that this was indeed a lab leak.”

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