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#TTFCovid19: United States President Donald Trump issued his hardest criticism yet against China, saying the republic was likely responsible for the Coronavirus pandemic due to a laboratory leak and is too embarrassed to admit it.
Citing how the Chinese government had refused to let Americans in, Trump warned that China would face “consequences” if the country is found to be “knowingly responsible” for the Covid-19 outbreak that has killed over 38,000 Americans.
“Our relationship with China was good until they did this,” Trump said on Saturday. “
The question was asked, ‘would you be angry at China?’ Well, the answer might very well be a very resounding yes, but it depends: was it a mistake that got out of control, or was it done deliberately?”
“There’s a big difference between those two,” he said.
United States President Donald Trump issued his hardest criticism yet against China, saying the republic was likely responsible for the Coronavirus pandemic due to a laboratory leak and is too embarrassed to admit it.
Citing how the Chinese government had refused to let Americans in, Trump warned that China would face “consequences” if the country is found to be “knowingly responsible” for the Covid-19 outbreak that has killed over 38,000 Americans.
“Let’s see what happens with their investigation. But we’re doing investigations also,” Trump said at a White House news conference on Saturday. “If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, yeah, then there should be consequences.”
As scrutiny over Trump’s response to the pandemic has intensified, congressional Republicans have sought to blame China, with some lawmakers suggesting that the virus, which emerged from the country’s Hubei province late in 2019, was released from a lab during Chinese experiments.
This, according to Bloomberg, has formed the basis to a hefty bill that the lawmakers have floated to allow Americans to sue China for damages.
Republican political organizations have attacked Democrats who’re seen defending China or their leadership, in one case calling a Democratic House member a “Chinese asset” for his remarks.
“Our relationship with China was good until they did this,” Trump said on Saturday.
“The question was asked, ‘would you be angry at China?’ Well, the answer might very well be a very resounding yes, but it depends: was it a mistake that got out of control, or was it done deliberately?”
“There’s a big difference between those two,” he said.
The Trump campaign sent a fund-raising email last week that accused China of “lying” about the outbreak and threatened to halt US funding for the World Health Organization, accusing the UN agency of taking Chinese claims about the disease “at face value.”
The move has been criticized internationally and by many Democrats.
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