Tim Kaine to President Trump: ‘Quit the Inflammatory China-Bashing’
The president’s decision to call this “China virus” or “Wuhan virus” or other epithets that he and members of his team use are a crass efforts to deflect blame’
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KAINE: "Quit the inflammatory China bashing. Did this virus originate in China? Yes. But Mr. President, that does not excuse your weeks and weeks of tweeting lies and misinformation about the virus while the leaders of other nations were taking steps to make sure their populations could be safe. The fact that the virus originated in China does not excuse the massive missteps that have led to the United States being so far behind other nations in the world in the ability to provide testing, basic testing to citizens, including citizens who have serious signs of illness.”