Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Trump’s repeated attacks on China are designed merely to divert the public’s attention from potential…
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that President Trump’s repeated attacks on China are designed merely to divert the public’s attention from potential administration mistakes in the early stages of the coronavirus response.
«What the president is saying about China is interesting — it’s an interesting diversion,» Pelosi told a small group of reporters in the Capitol.
Pelosi and House Democrats are charging ahead with a massive, $3 trillion legislative package designed to alleviate the medical and economic damage caused by the deadly pandemic, which has killed more than 85,000 people in the United States and wiped out years of job growth.
As the death toll climbs higher, and the jobless numbers soar, Trump in recent weeks has increasingly blamed China — where the virus is thought to have originated — for doing too little to extinguish the threat and concealing the severity of the outbreak from the rest of the world.
Last week, the president described the pandemic as an attack even worse than Pearl Harbor or the 9/11 attacks.
«And it should have never happened.
