Mamdani-backed candidate peddled crackpot COVID-19 claim pushed by Chinese communists

Source: New York Post

A far-left congressional candidate backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani peddled a crackpot COVID-19 theory that said the virus originated in France – and quoted a Chinese communist propaganda organ as evidence. Candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier spewed the bizarre claim in an unearthed tweet from 2020, citing as her source the Qiao Collective, a known propaganda organ for China. “So you mean that once again it was PoC who intervened and stopped the spread of a European plague? Wow.