Trump demands COVID-19 ‘reparations’ from China

Former US President Donald Trump has claimed China must compensate the rest of the world for “unleashing” the COVID-1 virus and “allowing” it to spread globally.

Writing on Saturday in a Daily Mail newspaper op-ed, Trump claimed to have been proven right on his early conjectures that COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese lab, despite the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) has rejected his claims that the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Trump cited recent statements by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the FBI that the virus “most likely” leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and said that “the facts are now plain for all to see.”

Neither the DOE nor the FBI provided any evidence to support their findings. In response, China has vehemently denied suggestions the lab was the source.

Trump claimed that Beijing’s “lies and deception killed any opportunity to stop this deadly global catastrophe at the start.”

“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 charged President Joe Biden’s administration with politicizing the origin-tracing of COVID-19 and trying to smear China with unproven claims.

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