BREAKING: Donald Trump blasts 'secretive' China for not giving coronavirus 'advance warnin
Grilled about a Washington Post report claiming he’d repeatedly ignored warnings as early as January and February that coronavirus could present a huge problem, Trump told a White House press conference that the story was false, and cited his ban on visitors from China to the US as evidence of his fast action.
‘I have a great relationship with President Xi , but I wish they could have told us earlier about what was inside, because we could have come up with a solution.supports HTML5 video‘With that said I have great respect for that country and great respect for the leadership of that country. Asked about his January 24 tweet, the president insisted China had been transparent at that time, but had subsequently shrouded its coronavirus briefings in secrecy.
Trump called Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured, his ‘friend’ but accused the communist country of failing to give the US ‘advance warning’ about coronavirus – which has been heavily denied by the White House – alleges that US intelligence officials began warning of the potential chaos coronavirus could cause in January, only for President Trump to repeatedly ignore them and play it down.
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