By Spy Uganda
US President Donald Trump has revealed that China is responsible for all the Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths that have occurred in America and other parts of the world.
Trump made the shocking utterances on Monday during a press conference in New York when he told journalists that no one should ask him about the Coronavirus deaths in America but that they should instead ask China.
“Don’t ask me such a question. People are dying in America and elsewhere. Don’t ask me such a question, as China. That question should be directed to China,” Trump answered when asked by a journalist to comment about the worrying numbers of COVID-19 deaths in USA.
So far, nearly 80,000 people have since died from the novel Coronavirus in the United States.
It is the highest death toll of any country in the world and comes as some states reopen for business.
But President Trump continues to describe his administration’s handling of the crisis as a success and blaming China for propagating the spread of the Virus.
While some individual states have already filed lawsuits against China, the administration of US President Trump is reportedly considering measures against Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump’s position is that China could have done more to warn and protect the world from the pandemic.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday said “enormous evidence” showed the new coronavirus originated in a lab in China, further fueling tensions with Beijing over its handling of the outbreak.
Trump, increasingly critical of China’s management of the first outbreak in the city of Wuhan in December, last week claimed to have proof it started in a Chinese laboratory.
Scientists believe the virus jumped from animals to humans, after emerging in China, possibly from a market in Wuhan selling exotic animals for meat.
Trump, without giving details, said he had seen evidence the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the source, appearing to echo speculation fueled by US right-wing radio commentators about a secret lab.
However, China denies the claims and even the US Director of National Intelligence office said analysts are still examining the exact origin of the outbreak.
‘Infecting the world’
Pompeo, a former CIA chief, told ABC News he agreed with a statement from the US intelligence community about the “wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified”.
But Pompeo went further than Trump citing “significant” and “enormous” evidence the virus originated in a Wuhan lab.
“I think the whole world can see now, remember, China has a history of infecting the world and running substandard laboratories.”
Pompeo said early Chinese efforts to downplay the coronavirus amounted to “a classic Communist disinformation effort that created enormous risk”.
“President Trump is very clear: we’ll hold those responsible accountable.”
But, media reports indicate that the US’s response is facing criticism for their perceived lack of a pandemic response strategy.
