Even though there’s been overwhelming evidence for more than two years that the coronavirus came from a Chinese government lab, Democrats, the corporate media, and China have colluded to keep that fact from the American public, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Monday.

Appearing on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Cruz detailed how two recently-exposed government reports suggest that, counter to its claim, the Biden Administration has known the lab-origins of the virus for more than two years:

“It has been evident, the overwhelming weight of the evidence, for over two years now, has been that this virus escaped from a Chinese government lab. And, what’s happened this weekend, is we now have the bombshell report that not one, but two, agencies in the Biden administration have concluded that the coronavirus came, the COVID-19 virus came, from a Chinese government lab.”

“Let me point to three facts that are compelling,” Cruz said, citing evidence he had laid out back in March and April of 2020 on his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz”:

“Number one: the Wuhan Institute of Virology - which studies not just viruses, studies coronaviruses, not just coronaviruses, coronaviruses derived from bats – which is located just a couple hundred yards from the wet market where this outbreak first occurred in Wuhan, China. By the way, those bats don’t occur naturally in China, any closer than 900 miles away, and yet a few hundred yards from the lab, that's where the outbreak occurred.

“Data point number two: in November of 2019, before the pandemic, three separate researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized, went and checked themselves in for serious ailments, ailments that suggest that they may have been the very first people with COVID-19. In fact, that might have been how it escaped.

“Fact number three: after the pandemic began, the Chinese government actively destroyed the samples at the Wuhan Institute for Virology - destroyed them, and they also disappeared the whistle blowers.”

Nonetheless, America’s legacy media and Democrat politicians have insisted on dishonestly denying the Chinese origin of the coronavirus, Cruz said:

“China bears the responsibility and the entire corporate media: CNN, MSNBC, all of the Alphabet Soup, The Washington Post, The New York Times.

“Not only did they not cover this, they eagerly repeated the Democrat talking points and the talking points from the Chinese Communist government.”

“It was dishonest and profoundly corrupt,” Cruz said.