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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 01, 2023
China may be ‘knowingly responsible’ for virus: Trump

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19 April, 2020, 11:10 am
Last modified: 19 April, 2020, 11:19 am

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China may be ‘knowingly responsible’ for virus: Trump

Some GOP lawmakers have suggested the virus was released from a lab during Chinese experiments, and have floated a bill that would allow Americans to sue China for damages

TBS Report
19 April, 2020, 11:10 am
Last modified: 19 April, 2020, 11:19 am
US President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus response briefing as Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Vice President Mike Pence look on at the White House in Washington, US, March 18, 2020/ Reuters
US President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus response briefing as Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Vice President Mike Pence look on at the White House in Washington, US, March 18, 2020/ Reuters

President Donald Trump raised the prospect that China deliberately caused the Covid-19 outbreak that's killed over 38,000 Americans and said there should be consequences if the country is found to be "knowingly responsible."

"Let's see what happens with their investigation. But we're doing investigations also," Trump said at a White House news conference on Saturday, Bloomberg reported.

"If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, yeah, then there should be consequences," he added.

As scrutiny of Trump's response to the outbreak has intensified, congressional Republicans have sought to blame China for the coronavirus outbreak, which emerged from the country's Hubei province in late 2019.

Some GOP lawmakers have suggested the virus was released from a lab during Chinese experiments, and have floated a bill that would allow Americans to sue China for damages.

Republican political organizations have attacked Democrats who've defended the Chinese people 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 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. But Trump himself hasn't been as harsh on the country. He repeatedly praised China and its president, Xi Jinping, in January and February for its handling of the outbreak, complicating Republican efforts to brand the country as a villain now.

Trump said last week he would 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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