By Benjamin Fearnow |News Week |
White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro rebuffed criticism over President Donald Trump asking to slow coronavirus testing down, instead saying China “created” COVID-19 and sent “hundreds of thousands” of its own citizens abroad to spread the virus.The Trump administration official responded Sunday morning on CNN’s State of the Union to Trump telling Tulsa, Oklahoma rally-goers Saturday that he directed his health officials to “slow the testing down, please,” in order to discover fewer cases.
Navarro insisted the president was only joking in a “tongue-in-cheek” fashion, before redirecting the conversation and culpability for the pandemic toward the Chinese government.
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