Former US President Donald Trump wants Xi Jinping and his communist thugs to cough up $60 trillion for unleashing COVID-19 onto the world.
Trump made the comments during a Fox News Sunday Morning Futures program in which he stood by claims that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab.
“China must pay reparations, but I believe the country doesn’t have this much money,” Trump said.
“What they have done to the world is horrific, and it continues to be horrific all around the world.”
While still president, Trump floated the idea of having China pay for the untold damage the pandemic has waged on people’s lives and the world economy.
Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo also echoed Trump’s claims in 2020.
Recent studies and intelligence investigations have corroborated past claims by the Trump administration that the virus likely escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China’s top-secret virus research centre.
This October, it was revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to the federal government when asked whether the US funded “gain of function” research at the facility.
According to National Institutes of Health official Lawrence Tabak, the US funded “limited experiments” on humanized mice to test infection with bat coronaviruses.
While the research is not believed to be related to the pandemic, it has brought increased attention to the lab’s role in the origin of COVID-19.
The Chinese government has claimed with the help of the World Health Organization that the virus spread from animals to humans at a Wuhan wet market.
Despite these claims, there is a mounting body of evidence that Chinese researchers had a hand to play in the virus’ creation. Moreover, sources within the US government have said that they were confident that this was the case.
