Former US President Donald Trump has stated that China must compensate the rest of the world for “releasing” and “enabling” the COVID-1 virus to spread internationally.
Despite the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) has rejected Trump’s claims that the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Trump claimed on Saturday in a Daily Mail newspaper op-ed that he had been proven correct on his early conjectures that COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese lab.
Trump referenced recent DOE and FBI assertions that the virus “most certainly” leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, saying that “the facts are now there for all to see.”
Neither the DOE nor the FBI produced evidence to back up their conclusions. In response, China has categorically denied that the lab was the source.
Trump stated that Beijing’s “lies and deception ruined any chance of preventing this horrific global calamity from the outset.”
“Add to that the probability that the virus emerged from a Chinese government lab, and may even have been engineered by Chinese government scientists, and it is clear that the nations of the world are not just owed a massive apology; they are owed massive damages,” he wrote.
Trump said Biden has been “unbelievably weak on China – perhaps because his family has received millions of dollars from entities linked to the Chinese Communist Party.”
The Chinese government accused President Joe Biden’s administration of politicizing the origin-tracing of COVID-19 and trying to smear China with unproven claims.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Friday that politicization had turned the issue into a “political football.”
Scientists have condemned conspiracy theories about the Chinese laboratory, saying the new coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, emerging in China in late 2019, possibly from a market in Wuhan selling exotic animals for meat.
