Posted on 04/07/2020 5:19:00 PM PDT by blam
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday at the White House that he would put a hold on funding to the World Health Organization amid the coronavirus crisis.
“They were wrong about a lot of things,” Trump said.
The president noted that the World Health Organization receives more from the United States than any other country, and would require accounting for their failure to properly alarm the world about the coronavirus outbreak.
“We want to look into the World Health Organization because they really called it wrong,” Trump said. “They missed the call, they could have called it months earlier, they would have known, they should have known, and they probably did know.”
The president noted that the WHO actually criticized his travel ban from China that he set in late January.
“Such restrictions can have the effect of increasing fear and stigma, with little public health benefit,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said about travel bans just days after Trump banned travel from China.
Trump said the WHO frequently sided with China despite heavy criticism for their lack of transparency about the virus.
“They seem to be very China-centric,” he said. “That’s a nice way of saying it, but they seem to be very China-centric, and they seem to err always on the side of China.”
Trump accused the global organization of also getting a lot wrong about the virus.
“It’s a great thing when it works, but when they call every shot wrong, it’s no good,” he said.
Later in the briefing, reporters asked why he would freeze funding to the WHO in the middle of a pandemic.
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Try listening to the video at the site. He says toward the end that “We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it”.
Yes!
NOT IN THE VIDEO:
Later in the briefing, reporters asked why he would freeze funding to the WHO in the middle of a pandemic.
“I’m not saying I’m going to do it. But we’re going to look at it,” the president said.
WHO also said people should not take ibprophen for this virus yet the malaria drug that’s looking hopeful has been helpful because its an anti inflammatory. Same as ibprophen.
What other president would have had such direct and easy access to common sense and wisdom?
Bish..go away
Trump is in the process of separating the wheat from the chaff. TRUMP 2020!
“Bish..go away”
You forgot the /s
“Headline is FAKE news click-bait.”
yep, he’s gonna look into doing it ...
So he tells why he is withholding the funds and the press asks but why now? Morons...
I tell ya..its the pits to get on the wrong side of this man!
Dont ya just love it?
“Try listening to the video at the site. He says toward the end that “We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it”.”
RTFA. READ THIS:
“We‘re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it and we‘re going to see,“ Trump said at the outset of a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House.
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Minutes later, though, the president walked back the declaration, telling reporters that he was “looking into it” and conceding that a global pandemic was “maybe not” the best time to freeze funding for the international organization.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-threatens-world-health-organization-funding-171859
So the article isn't fake, he said it but later backtracked.
I have no problem with it being a threat.
Wow. Go, President Trump, Go!
Good!
“I can’t spare this man! He FIGHTS!” :)
Later in the briefing, reporters asked why he would freeze funding to the WHO in the middle of a pandemic.
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Leave it to idiots in journalism to ask such stupid questions. The president just told them why he would freeze funding. I guess they weren’t listening. I guess they were just ready for some gotcha questions.
so this will be the headline news for the foreseeable future with the MSM.....
“Except in the video at the article he did say they were doing it.
So the article isn’t fake, he said it but later backtracked.
I have no problem with it being a threat. “
hmmm. And BB cut it off right at that moment.
CLICK-BAIT FAKE NEWS! BB knew there was no hold but they get the clicks.
RTFA!
Later in the briefing, reporters asked why he would freeze funding to the WHO in the middle of a pandemic.
“I’m not saying I’m going to do it. But we’re going to look at it,” the president said.
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