Trump: China trying to deflect pain, charge
WASHINGTON: China is on a “massive disinformation” campaign and is desperately trying to deflect the “pain and carnage” that it spread throughout the world, US President Donald Trump has said, upping the ante on Beijing over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Trump, who has expressed disappointment over China’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, claimed that it was the “incompetence” of Beijing that led to the mass killing across the globe.
“China is on a massive disinformation campaign because they are desperate to have Sleepy Joe Biden win the presidential race so they can continue to rip-off the US, as they have done for decades, until I came along!” Trump said in a tweet on Wednesday.
“Spokesman speaks stupidly on behalf of China, trying desperately to deflect the pain and carnage that their country spread throughout the world. Its disinformation and propaganda attack on the US and Europe is a disgrace It all comes from the top. They could have easily stopped the plague, but they didn’t,” he said in a series of tweets.
China has denied covering up the extent of its coronavirus outbreak and accused the US of attempting to divert public attention by insinuating that the virus originated from a virology laboratory in Wuhan.
Meanwhile, the US Senate passed a bill boosting oversight of companies based in China and other nations that could lead to their removal from American stock exchanges.
US Prez: HCQ regimen finishes in ‘day or two’
US President Donald Trump has said that the regimen of antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine that he is taking to ward off the coronavirus will finish in the next day or two.
“I think the regimen finishes in a day or two,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday when asked how long he will continue to take the antimalarial drug.