U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday during his daily White House briefing that China should face consequences for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak if they were “knowingly responsible.”
“It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn’t, and the whole world is suffering because of it,” Trump began.
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Undoubtedly, the American president had on his mind the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases around the globe. As of April 19, John Hopkins CSSE has reported over 2 million cases worldwide and more than 730,000 cases in the U.S. alone.
“If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, yeah, I mean, then sure there should be consequences,” Trump continued. It was unclear what ‘consequences’ he was referring to.
He added that China was “embarrassed” and that it came down to a question of whether it was “a mistake that got out of control, or was it done deliberately?”
“There’s a big difference between those two,” he warned.
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