At a moment total US COVID-19 cases fast approaches one million, President Trump has again lashed out at China but this time with a very specific threat to bill the county of the devastating coronvirus’ origin more that $160 billion for the ‘substantial’ amount for damages caused by the pandemic.
Trump made the comments from the Rose Garden at the White House Monday after he was pressed by a reporter over a German newspaper report suggesting that China should be issued a $160 billion invoice for the impact on Europe’s economy.
The president responded he had a “much easier” idea: “We have ways of doing things a lot easier than that,” Trump told the coronavirus press briefing. “Germany’s looking at things, and we’re looking at things, and we’re talking about a lot more money than Germany’s talking about.”
“We haven’t determined the final amount yet. It’s very substantial,” Trump added, suggesting it would be significantly more than the $160 billion floated in German media.
He argued that amid other failings, ultimately Beijing could have stopped the deadly disease at the source when it was first identified in Wuhan in December, though was present in November.
Hinting at sanctions despite also touting a positive relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump told the briefing further, “There are a lot of ways you can hold them accountable.”
“We’re doing very serious investigations, as you probably know. And we are not happy with China. We are not happy with that whole situation,” he said. “Because we believe it could have been stopped at the source. It could have been stopped quickly, and it wouldn’t have spread all over the world.”
Meanwhile The Daily Mail reports of the original German newspaper report which triggered the exchange as follows:
Last week German paper Bild calculated an ‘invoice’ of nearly €150billion (around $162billion) in economic damage to Germany because of the crisis.
The idea of charging reparations to China is not endorsed by the German government, with Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Mass describing the concept as ‘illusory’.
Germany’s Bild: “A time is coming when those responsible will be held accountable!”
It marks the first time President Trump has gotten this specific about coronavirus ‘reparations’ paid out by China, given dollar amounts were bandied about in the press briefing.
Since last month he’s echoed that “China must pay!” when raising the issue of economic devastation suffered across the US as a result of the economic “pause” and widespread state lockdowns.
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Great idea Donnie and small business can bill the federal government for the full value of each and every business that goes belly up in the US. Followed by all the pensioners who will lose their payments and on down the line.
Somehow I feel this is just election year theatrics.
EVERYTHING is election year theatrics.
I assumed this article was from the Babylon Bee. Yeah…still waiting for Mexico to pay for the non-existent wall.
Hehehe,…….You want #69 now? No beef,..all broccoli? No prawblem.
And the Chinese check is in the mail. Along with the check from Mexico who is going to pay for building that wall. LOL Yeah, I know, what wall.
And then he’s going to bill everyone else for the bailouts. Now that surely is true. So you better call your insurance guy. You know, as seen on TV, once you cash that check there’s not much afterward that can be done to say that you are not liable for those bailouts. Or call Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe right now for a free consultation, right now, to be put on our watch list for malcontents, right now, so when the time comes that you need more cash, right now, chew ain’t gettin’ any mo,….ever.
How will we ever get those reparations over that big beautiful wall.
AGAIN, how about we clean up the dog shit in our own living room first??? I didn’t see the ChiComs bailing out Big Everything and fucking the U.S. taxpayers again. That was 536 political douchebags.
I’ll take this bullshit seriously when China demands, that the US demand reparations from Israel for USS Liberty terrorist attack.
That’s typical jewish behavior.
Has his hucksterism gotten worse as the election approaches, or has our understanding of the reality of the situation just gotten clearer? Maybe both?