On Thursday, President Trump threatened to impose new measures against China to punish them over the coronavirus, while pushing the idea that he had seen secret evidence that the virus was linked to a Wuhan lab.
Trump pushed the idea of this evidence, and when pressed by reporters added that he’s “not allowed to tell you” why he believes what he’s seen.
If he knows anything about the Wuhan lab in question, however, it is probably owing to the US having funded the lab, and trained a number of workers. The lab had done experiments on bats from Wuhan, a source from which the Covid-19 virus may have emerged.
The US has been funding that lab for the past decade, which raises questions about why anything the lab may have done would be the Chinese government’s fault, as opposed to the fruits of US government funding. There may be political reasons, however.
President Trump has been very keen to brand his upcoming opponent Joe Biden as a Chinese sympathizer in recent advertising, and claims China would want Biden to win, though China insists it has no interest in meddling in the US vote either way.
If Trump intends to keep up this campaign strategy, however, he may feel that blaming China for coronavirus, even in part, would vilify them enough to hurt Biden. Since the Democrats will no doubt use claims of Trump’s similar ties to Russia, it may be a race to see which nation the candidates can make the American voters fear more.
Theories abound on coronavirus, no doubt fueled by it being a once-in-a-generation threat. While Trump doesn’t seem to intend to direct espouse any particular theory at this point, he seems very interested in keeping the conversation heading in that direction with his own claims of things he’d seen and can’t talk about.
He has the power and authority to punish China, but not the authority to share what it how he knows what he knows….. Where’s he getting not getting his powers from then? CIA? Secret council of Oligarchs? Or just CFR telling him what he can and can’t do? Will God to know he’ll actually for us with all his secret insider information, but gotta keep us in the dark, for our safety presumably…
“once-in-a-generation threat”
Not even close.
Even assuming that the virus did originate in China, (something I don’t believe). Why do tax payer dollars have to be used to finance a Chinese laboratory?
You all should do some better research on this subject of the Wuhan Lab and COVID-19. It has turned out that the wet seafood market wasn’t selling bats, because there were none in the entire region .. In addition, the Wuhan Virology Lab is 10 miles away from the hospital where COVID-19 patients would soon be treated.
In October of last year, 300 US Army troops participated in the International Military Games and were housed in a hotel some 400+ yards from the seafood market .. And by November, both the US soldiers and the hotel staff came down with the disease and were treated at the hospital.
The real question is, who owns the patent(s) for the coronavirus that produced the COVID-19 virus. China doesn’t hold the patent(s).
The Chinese leadership must shake their heads and laugh every day wondering how they got so lucky to have Trump in the White House. China always plays the long game, unlike Trump who rants and raves like a five year old.