If there's a disease outbreak, there's a conspiracy theory to explain it. Trump's playing an old game

The basic logic never changes, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.

Donald Trump aims to ride a COVID conspiracy theory to reputational rehab. “Now everybody is agreeing that I was right when I very early on called Wuhan as the source of COVID-19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus,” the former president said.

It’s unclear why a president who failed to protect us from a bioweapons attack, or who failed to respond …