Donald Trump has accused President Joe Biden of “surrendering” to COVID-19 and joining China‘s “coverup” of the virus’ origins by failing to put pressure on Beijing.
In a lengthy year-end newsletter to his supporters on Tuesday, the former president praised his administration’s coronavirus response and concluded that he handled the pandemic “exceptionally well.” “It’s not even close,” he wrote.
More than two years after SARS-CoV-2 was detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the world is no closer to knowing the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19, a disease that has now killed more than 819,000 Americans and claimed more than 5.4 million lives worldwide.
In a recent interview with Fox News, Trump said it was “so obvious” that the virus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan. In August, however, the Intelligence Community (IC) found evidence of the so-called “lab leak” theory…