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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:14 PM Apr 2020

China Daily Bureau Chief: Trump a 'Racist A**hole' for Suggesting China Has More Coronavirus Deaths

The European bureau chief of China’s state-run publication China Daily has called President Trump a “racist a**hole” for claiming China “must have the most” deaths from the global coronavirus pandemic.

“We don’t have the most-in-the-world deaths — the most in the world has to be China,” Trump said during Friday’s White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing. “It’s a massive country. It’s gone through a tremendous problem with this, a tremendous problem. And they must have the most.”

China Daily’s Chen Weihua, an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s coronavirus response, responded by tweeting that Trump’s suggestion was “coldblooded.” He added in a later tweet that “Trump is like a mad dog with rabies biting everyone, only to divert attention from his failures,” before tweeting that it was “irresponsible” and “immoral” for Trump to suggest that the virus could have come from a Wuhan lab. He also floated a theory pushed as Chinese propaganda that a U.S. military athlete brought the disease to China.

In 2018, U.S. officials flagged the Wuhan Institute of Virology as the potential starting point of a “future emerging coronavirus outbreak,” citing the lack of safety protocols applied to the Institute’s research on “SARS-like coronaviruses in bats.”

https://news.yahoo.com/china-daily-bureau-chief-trump-214706765.html

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China Daily Bureau Chief: Trump a 'Racist A**hole' for Suggesting China Has More Coronavirus Deaths (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
Yes we know. Cha Apr 2020 #1
Still helps to hear someone else say it ;) mr_lebowski Apr 2020 #2
Oh yeah.. I didn't mean it like that. Grateful Cha Apr 2020 #3
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. Still helps to hear someone else say it ;)
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 08:21 PM
Apr 2020

BTW, how do we know a US Military athlete DIDN'T bring it to China?

Logic would dictate that if it was meant as a biowarfare tactic, it wouldn't have started in the country that developed it for that purpose. They'd export it to their target, via some carrier.

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