On another note, Anthony Ruggiero, the head of the National Security Council’s bureau tracking weapons of mass destruction, expressed frustration during one videoconference in January that the C.I.A. was unable to get behind any theory of the outbreak’s origin. C.I.A. analysts responded that they simply did not have the evidence to support any one theory with high confidence at the time, according to people familiar with the conversation. An official working for Trump who is actively pushing an unsubstantiated theory that could be used to spark an international conflict. Hmmm, sounds very familiar.