I’d be interested to know if anyone informed Trump about this, especially in light of the disaster caused by the Chinese bio-labs. I’d guess that no, the officials of the entrenched bureaucracy looked at Trump as a temporary glitch in their control of the nation’s policy and decided not to risk his exposing the bad acts of previous administrations by insisting that Ukraine shut those labs down.
I get that the people who consider themselves the insurers of continuity in spite of voter whims believe that they “had to” send bio-weapons research to foreign countries to dodge congress’ ban on bio-weapons research. But why China, which is our enemy, and why Ukraine, which is close enough to our enemy that an invasion is as easy as rolling across the border?
Maybe Trump did know and the permanent real government convinced him to keep them. If so, shame on him. Shame on the media for not reporting this truthfully, and shame on us if we put up with it.