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posted by martyb on Thursday May 21 2020, @02:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the WORLD-health-organization dept.

Trump threatens to take US out of WHO entirely and stop all funding:

In a letter to WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Trump alleged that "the repeated missteps by you and your organization in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world" and that the WHO must "demonstrate independence from China."

"[I]f the World Health Organization does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organization permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization," Trump wrote. "I cannot allow American taxpayer dollars to continue to finance an organization that, in its present state, is so clearly not serving America's interests."

Trump posted the letter on Twitter, writing, "It is self-explanatory!"

Trump has repeatedly denied any responsibility for COVID-19 spreading in America and said on April 14 that the US would temporarily halt funding the WHO until his administration completed a review of the group's response to the coronavirus pandemic. Trump's letter yesterday said that "review has confirmed many of the serious concerns I raised last month and identified others that the World Health Organization should have addressed, especially the World Health Organization's alarming lack of independence from the People's Republic of China."

[...] Trump's letter then lists a series of claims, the first being that the WHO "consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier, including reports from the Lancet medical journal."

The Lancet quickly issued a response explaining that Trump is wrong. "This statement is factually incorrect," The Lancet said. "The Lancet published no report in December, 2019, referring to a virus or outbreak in Wuhan or anywhere else in China." The Lancet's first reports on the topic were published on January 24, 2020 the statement said.

[...] Trump's letter yesterday said, "Throughout this crisis, the World Health Organization has been curiously insistent on praising China for its alleged 'transparency.'" Trump's letter did not mention that Trump himself praised China for its "transparency" on January 24 or that Trump repeatedly praised China for its coronavirus response throughout February.

[...] Health experts say Trump's travel ban had little effect on the pandemic's spread. Trump continued to downplay the virus's severity by comparing it to the flu as late as March 24, nearly two months after the WHO declared a global health emergency. Trump has also fought state governors over their cautious approaches to reopening the economy.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @05:31AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 21 2020, @05:31AM (#997289)

    WHATABOUTISM much?

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday May 21 2020, @05:46AM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday May 21 2020, @05:46AM (#997293) Journal

    No about anything. The Senate cannot impeach. Simple fact. Republican distraction, yes, not not constitutional. Perhaps they are thinking of a Parlimentiary vote of no-confidence in a Prime Minister? But the United States is not a Monarchy, there are no "Ministers", and especially no "prime" Minister, like the one going before the Bar in Israel. So this is bullshit. Dissemblance. Fake Fucking News from the Trump Administration. Has Stephen Miller written all over it. The White Supremacist Jew in the White House? The Entire Administration is a contradiction in terms, and illegal.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by RamiK on Thursday May 21 2020, @06:17AM (1 child)

      by RamiK (1813) on Thursday May 21 2020, @06:17AM (#997300)

      The White Supremacist Jew in the White House? The Entire Administration is a contradiction in terms, and illegal.

      Contradiction in terms or contradictory terms? This is simply the result of the corporatistss deliberately using inflammatory personal and tribal attacks to avoid pointing out what's actually wrong with the US' senate and congress and how very little it has to do with who is the POTUS. Fact of the matter is, they're just having you going round in circles spending your energy on replacing the one puppet they can get rid off / hold in place with their representatives majority so you won't put together an actual progressive socialist agenda and push it from the state level where actual change starts.

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      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday May 21 2020, @06:35AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 21 2020, @06:35AM (#997305) Journal

        This is simply the result of the corporatistss deliberately using inflammatory personal and tribal attacks to avoid pointing out what's actually wrong with the US' senate and congress and how very little it has to do with who is the POTUS.

        It way much easier to state what is actually not wrong with the US' senate. Here goes the list:
        (end of list)

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