Tom Cotton keep repeating debunked Coronavirus conspiracy theory

Thus says the Washington Post.  Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked.  So what is the theory?

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) repeated a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan, China. Cotton referenced a laboratory in the city, the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” He said the lab was near a market some scientists initially thought was a starting point for the virus’s spread. “We don’t know where it originated, and we have to get to the bottom of that,” Cotton said. “We also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China’s only biosafety level 4 super laboratory that researches human infectious diseases.” Yet Cotton acknowledged there is no evidence that the disease originated at the lab. Instead, he suggested it’s necessary to ask Chinese authorities about the possibility, fanning the embers of a conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly debunked by experts.

This sounds like a likely hypothesis, that the virus that originated in Wuhan escaped from the lab in Wuhan.  Why does the Washington Post say that it is debunked?

“There’s absolutely nothing in the genome sequence of this virus that indicates the virus was engineered,” said Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University. “The possibility this was a deliberately released bioweapon can be firmly excluded.” 

Richard Ebright doesn't have any inside knowledge.  And who says it was deliberately released?  It was most likely accidentally released. 

Vipin Narang, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it is “highly unlikely” the general population was exposed to a virus through an accident at a lab. “We don’t have any evidence for that,” said Narang, a political science professor with a background in chemical engineering. “It’s a skip in logic to say it’s a bioweapon that the Chinese developed and intentionally deployed, or even unintentionally deployed,” Narang said. 

Narang doesn't have any inside knowledge, he just feels that it is "highly unlikely".  Why is it highly unlikely?

“It’s true that a lot is still unknown,” Cui said when CBS host Margaret Brennan asked about Cotton’s claims. “But it’s very harmful, it’s very dangerous, to stir up suspicion, rumors and spread them among the people. For one thing, this will create panic. Another thing is that it will fan up racial discrimination, xenophobia, all these things that will really harm our joint efforts to combat the virus.”

Ah.  If you accuse the Chinese of accidentally releasing a highly contagious virus, it will cause xenophobia.  Cui is the Chinese Ambassador to the US so of course he will defend them.

The Washington Post has zero credibility.  They are the official mouthpiece of the deep state.  I am not for censoring them, instead I want to hear more, because the truth is the exact opposite of whatever they say.