Listen to me: I know
China released the virus & pandemic
But, I'm
not allowed to tell you
Trump’s latest anti-China statement comes as he also made an unfounded
claim that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab (e.g., implying it
was on purpose and with some nefarious reason).
That unfounded claim reported on here
from CNN in part.
The impact is starting already – case in point:
Wall Street
stocks opened lower Friday (May 1) after Trump hinted that there
could be new tariffs imposed on China as a result of the Covid-19
outbreak. Trump said late Thursday that the trade deal with China “is now secondary
to what took place with the virus.
Trump contradicted the statement from his own intelligence community by claiming that he has seen evidence that gives him a “high degree of confidence the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” but he declined to provide details to back up his assertion.
Trump contradicted the statement from his own intelligence community by claiming that he has seen evidence that gives him a “high degree of confidence the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” but he declined to provide details to back up his assertion.
When he was asked
whether he's seen evidence that would suggest the virus originated in
the lab and why he was so confident in that assessment he demurred: “Yes, I
have. I can't tell you that. I'm not allowed to tell you that.”
Note: A huge WTF moment for sure. Trump
says he knows something about the Chinese connection to COVID-10, and got his information
from or was told by someone, not officially in our government that he, the
President of the United States, was NOT allowed to say where his info came
from?
His comments
undercut a public statement from the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence issued just hours earlier which stated no such assessment
has been made and continues to “rigorously examine whether the outbreak began
through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at
a laboratory in Wuhan.
Background: Trump
officials have been pushing the U.S. intelligence community to determine the
exact origins of the coronavirus outbreak in pursuit of an unproven theory that the
pandemic started because of a laboratory accident in China, multiple
sources told
CNN.
In
acknowledgment of that effort, the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence issued an unprecedented public statement Thursday prior to Trump's
comments making clear the intelligence community is currently exploring two
possibilities but cannot yet assess if the outbreak “was the result of an accident
at a laboratory in Wuhan, or began through contact with infected animals.”
It is
unusual for the intelligence community to comment publicly on its work before a
formal assessment is made. Thursday's statement appears to have come in
response to growing questions over the origins of the virus as Trump
administration officials have spent weeks repeatedly floating the theory that
the virus originated inside a Chinese lab.
My 2 cents: Trump is a man who knows no bounds, ignores
any established process, dodges rules and law, and possesses not one lick of
common sense about most anything except of course, his own pride, ego, and need
for daily praise and fluffing.
His actions or inactions are careless for any person in such a
powerful position and more so as the president of our great country – all he is doing is
dragging us down to his level and that level is pretty damn low.
Those in our intelligence positions based on story and
many others over the last three years, if they had any honor and dignity or
love of our country that they took a solemn oath to protect and would after
this latest from Trump resign from office en masse.
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