were specifically choosing to believe unsourced foreign msm sources over your own country's POTUS, SOS, and ODNI, and choosing to accept that information even though the country of China has been proven to habitual liars and killers, and even though the country is known to be using those media sources as a means to spread propaganda against the US as a countpropaganda measure.
There is a big difference between saying Trump did a bad job in February with COVID (surprise), and saying that your own government is lying to you, and taking the side of the despotic communist country instead of the United States.
I fully agree that China's guilt in this is independent of Trump's response, but if you really believe that, then why would you possibly believe this tripe?
I can think of 2 reasons:
1) You so distrust Trump that you automatically believe the opposite - but this also requires doing so with the ODNI and the SOS in this case (and you have previously argued extensively about the professionalism of these people).
2) You don't really believe that China's guilt is separate from how Trump is perceived. You believe that if China is uncovered as the real villain of subterfuge that people won't blame Trump for this crisis which you are relying on to take him down in the Fall given that all else has failed.
You fear that people would realize that nobody could have anticipated this crisis because of China's subterfuge. In essence, at your core, there is still a component of Go Virus, Beat trump, and even Go China, Beat Trump if necessary.
I think both 1 and 2 can also both be true at the same time.