Will he brag about this world record
Another big Trump BS story: “He says he has evidence coronavirus came
from a Chinese lab, but he can't reveal it” (April 30, 2020)
Trump says
he has seen evidence to prove that the coronavirus pandemic had spread from a
laboratory in Wuhan, China, but he declined to detail what that evidence was
when asked by a reporter, he responded:
“I’m not allowed to tell you that.”
He spoke at
a White House news conference at which he repeatedly accused China’s government
over of being negligent in its response to the virus, while leaving open the
possibility it was intentionally spread.
Speaking to reporters intended to highlight the administration’s efforts to protect nursing-home
residents from COVID-19, Trump was asked about a statement released Thursday by
the office of the DNI who stated:“… that
the U.S. believed the coronavirus was
not
manmade or genetically modified.”
Snippets and highlights follow. The reporter asked the
president if he had personally seen evidence that the virus originated in a
laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Trump seemed
unfamiliar with the finding and pressed the reporter for the name of the
official behind the statement, which was attributed only to “The Office of
DNI” (the #1 position that oversees all 17 agencies in the IC (Intelligence
Community).
Trump said: “Yes,
I have.”
Pressed for specific evidence that gave him confidence that the virus had come from a lab, Trump said: “I can’t tell you that. I’m not allowed to tell you that.” Major News Agencies (Yahoo news) first reported that U.S. intelligence officials were investigating whether the virus might have escaped from a research facility in Wuhan rather than spreading from live animal “wet” markets which was dominant at the outset of the pandemic. However, that is not inconsistent with this latest IC finding that it was not man-made or genetically modified.”
Pressed for specific evidence that gave him confidence that the virus had come from a lab, Trump said: “I can’t tell you that. I’m not allowed to tell you that.” Major News Agencies (Yahoo news) first reported that U.S. intelligence officials were investigating whether the virus might have escaped from a research facility in Wuhan rather than spreading from live animal “wet” markets which was dominant at the outset of the pandemic. However, that is not inconsistent with this latest IC finding that it was not man-made or genetically modified.”
Note: Virology laboratories worldwide routinely work
on naturally-occurring pathogens.
More from that news conference from
Trump:
He leveled a
series of attacks against China, including the suggestion that its government
could have contained the coronavirus, but chose not to, saying: “This is something
that could have been contained at the original location, and I think it could
have been contained relatively easily. China’s a very sophisticated country and
they could have contained it. They were either unable to, or they chose not to
and the world has suffered greatly.”
Asked if he
believed China was withholding information on the coronavirus so as to hurt his
chances of being reelected, Trump said he didn’t want to “cast any dispersions [sic],” but
quickly said: “China would like to
see Sleepy Joe Biden elected,” then adding: “China doesn’t want to see me elected
and the reason is we’re getting billions and billions of dollars many billions
of dollars a month from China. China never gave our country anything. China
never gave us nothing.”
Pressed on
whether he believed China had intentionally let the virus spread, Trump said it
was a possibility, he said: “Well they could have done it and I’m just
saying, well, one of two things happened: they either didn’t do it, you know
they couldn’t do it from a competence standpoint, or they let it spread. And,
you know, I would say probably it got out of control, but you know there’s
another case that how come they stopped all the planes, all of the traffic from
going into China, but they didn’t stop the planes and the traffic from coming
into the United States and from coming into all of Europe? I mean look at
Italy, look what happened to Italy.”
On whether
he planned to try to hold China accountable for the spread of the coronavirus,
Trump stopped short, but then he said: “I
want to find out what happened.” But at the same time Trump pointed blame at
Beijing’s government adding: “They could have stopped it. They are a very
brilliant nation, scientifically and otherwise. It got loose, let’s say, and
they could have capped it. They could have stopped it, but they didn’t.”
Asked what
had changed in his assessment of China’s culpability, after he praised
President Xi’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak early on, Trump linked the
pandemic with the trade deal the U.S. signed with China in January.
Trump said: “What’s
changed is the following: We did a trade deal and everybody was very happy. So
recently we signed a trade deal with China a number of months ago. China’s buying
billions of dollars worth of our products, our farm products, other products,
manufacturing products and it’s been a great deal. But then we noticed a virus
and it’s not acceptable what happened. It came out of China and it’s not
acceptable what happened,” and he concluded
that the U.S. would soon “Have the answer to how the virus originated and that
will determine a lot how I feel about China.”
— Finis
My 2 cents: What a load of horse sh*t – now as
the saying goes, how does Trump and his team get the sh*t back in the horse?
Not much to add to this man’s utter lack of knowledge
about much of anything except to lay the BS on thick – that is his skill – the
skill an experienced con artist that he is.
Congrats and shame on the GOP for
giving him a pass on getting rid of him in February during the Senate impeachment
trial. Now they are reaping what he sows.
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