The virus that causes COVID-19 probably did not originate in nature, according to a former State Department contractor. “It came out of nowhere, and it was optimized for transmission between humans in a way that no bat-borne coronavirus ever had been. So what’s up? A pangolin gets mated with a bat gets mated with a furin cleavage site of a human being? How does that happen? It’s not probable,” David Asher, who worked for the department during the Trump administration, said on Fox News’s “The Story.” The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus causes COVID-19. The first cases of the illness cropped up in China in late 2019. The origins of the virus are not known. The State Department had launched an investigation into the origins under former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, he confirmed this week. Reports indicated the probe was shut down by the department in recent weeks. The agency disputed …