WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump stated on Wednesday he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is evidence that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election quote in November.
U.S. President Donald Trump responds to questions during an interview with Reuters about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and other topics in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., April 29,2020 REUTERS/Carlos Barria
In an interview with Reuters in the Oval Workplace, Trump talked tough on China and stated he was taking a look at different choices in terms of effects for Beijing over the virus. “I can do a lot,” he said.
Trump has been loading blame on China for a worldwide pandemic that has actually killed a minimum of 60,000 people in the United States according to a Reuters tally, and thrown the U.S. economy into a deep economic crisis, putting in jeopardy his expect another four-year term.
The Republican president, typically accused of not acting early enough to prepare the United States for the spread of the infection, stated he believed China should have been more active in letting the world understand about the coronavirus rather.
Asked whether he was thinking about using tariffs and even debt write-offs for China, Trump would not offer specifics. “There are lots of things I can do,” he stated. “We’re searching for what happened.”
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