WASHINGTON– President Donald Trump‘s stepped-up efforts to blame China and the World Health Company for the coronavirus pandemic’s toll may require cumulative amnesia of his recent lavish appreciation of both to work.
” The World Health Company failed to separately examine reliable reports that clashed directly with the Chinese government’s main accounts,” Trump composed in a brand-new letter to the WHO threatening to end U.S. funding permanently. “The World Health Organization has been strangely enough insistent on applauding China for its supposed ‘transparency.'”
What the five-page letter, dated Monday, stops working to note is his own duplicated praise of both China and its dictator, Xi Jinping– consisting of for that very same “supposed openness.”
” China has been working really tough to include the Coronavirus,” Trump composed in a Jan. 24 Twitter post
It was neither the very first nor the last such tribute. On Jan. 22, the first day Trump spoke publicly about the coronavirus, he informed Fox News there was absolutely nothing to fret about. And China is working very hard on the problem.
Even two months later on, Trump was still admiring China and Xi. “Look, I have a really great relationship with President Xi and they went through a lot.
Josh Schwerin, senior strategist with the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA, stated Trump’s tactic is obvious.
” Trump’s failure to act let the virus spread like wildfire in