15 times Trump praised China as coronavirus was spreading across the globe
The president has lambasted the WHO for accepting Beijings assurances about the outbreak, but he repeated them, as well.
President Donald Trump yanked U.S. funding for the World Health Organization on Tuesday, complaining that the United Nations public health agency was overly deferential to China and had put too much faith in Beijings assertions that it had the coronavirus outbreak there was under control.
Had the WHO done its job to get medical experts into China to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out Chinas lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death, the president said Tuesday. Instead, the W.H.O. willingly took Chinas assurances to face value.
Trump, however, echoed many of those same assurances regarding China and its response to the virus throughout January and February, as the unique coronavirus began to infiltrate countries around the world. Just days before the U.S. recorded its first death from Covid-19, Trump touted Chinas government for its transparency and hard work to defeat the coronavirus that causes the illness.
POLITICO has compiled a list of 15 times the president hailed China for its push to prevent a pandemic in the early months of 2020 an effort that ultimately failed:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/trump-china-coronavirus-188736