CNN host Chris Cuomo said President Trump is content with allowing the elderly to die to restore the U.S. economy.
Cuomo said the rhetoric and actions of Trump are a reason why the United States reportedly has the most confirmed coronavirus cases of any other country.
“We have the most cases in the world. Why? Because we have a big population, there’s lots of density in places, and we have major foreign travel hubs. But also because we’ve done the least to stop the spread. And in large part, that’s on Trump. He slept on this. He lied about it. And now, he is not doing enough.”
“The president should say himself what his fringe friends are saying. Have you heard it? They’re OK with a certain number of the frail and the greatest generation dying off to make the economy come back sooner. Just say it. Because they’re saying it for you, and your actions show the same inclination.”
In early 2020, members of the U.S. intelligence community informed Trump that China, the place of origin for the coronavirus, was lying about the seriousness of COVID-19, which has since infected over 585,000 people on every continent but Antarctica.
A report issued by the Washington Post on Friday says that officials informed the president that China “appeared to be minimizing the severity of the outbreak” and “were not being candid about the true scale of the crisis.”
Well-documented evidence indicates that China also misled the World Health Organization about the severity of COVID-19 to prevent investigations in Wuhan, where the first case of the coronavirus was reported. One study indicated that, if China did not mislead the world about the virus’s severity, the spread of the coronavirus would be significantly less.
