Trump adviser says Covid-19 was 'spawned' by China – live

Trade adviser Peter Navarro makes unfounded claimPresident returns to campaign trail at muted Oklahoma eventTrump says he ordered coronavirus testing to ‘slow down’US attorney behind inquiries into Trump allies resignsJohn Bolton: judge declines to block tell-all Trump book 2.46pm BST The acting homeland security secretary, Chad Wolf, has appeared on CBS’s Face The Nation. He is asked about Donald Trump’s comment that John Bolton “will have bombs dropped on him” after the publication of his explosive book on the president’s administration. He is asked if such threats are worrying.“I think what you see here is some frustration on an individual writing a book for profit. And so I think that’s – that’s what I take from those comments,” says Wolf. He adds that the comments came from “a joking standpoint”. 2.36pm BST Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, is on CNN. He is asked about comments from Trump last night in which the president told a rally in Tulsa that: “I said to my people slow down the [Covid-19] testing”. Navarro replies: “It was tongue-in-cheek, please … it was a light moment”.Navarro then makes the extraordinary, unfounded claim that Covid-19 “was the product of the Chinese Communist party … we know that virus was spawned in China”. He says he cannot say whether Covid-19 was created on purpose or not by the Communist party, and backtracks slightly and China “spawned” the virus rather than created it. Continue reading…
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