{"id":149142,"date":"2020-06-21T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/21\/trump-adviser-says-covid-19-was-spawned-by-china-live\/"},"modified":"2020-06-21T15:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T13:52:03","slug":"trump-adviser-says-covid-19-was-spawned-by-china-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=149142","title":{"rendered":"Trump adviser says Covid-19 was &#039;spawned&#039; by China \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trade adviser Peter Navarro makes unfounded claimPresident returns to campaign trail at muted Oklahoma eventTrump says he ordered coronavirus testing to \u2018slow down\u2019US 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\u2019s Face The Nation. He is asked about Donald Trump\u2019s comment that John Bolton \u201cwill have bombs dropped on him\u201d after the publication of his explosive book on the president\u2019s administration. He is asked if such threats are worrying.\u201cI think what you see here is some frustration on an individual writing a book for profit. And so I think that\u2019s \u2013 that\u2019s what I take from those comments,\u201d says Wolf. He adds that the comments came from \u201ca joking standpoint\u201d. 2.36pm BST Peter Navarro, Trump\u2019s trade adviser, is on CNN. He is asked about comments from Trump last night in which the president told a rally in Tulsa that: \u201cI said to my people slow down the [Covid-19] testing\u201d. Navarro replies: \u201cIt was tongue-in-cheek, please &#8230; it was a light moment\u201d.Navarro then makes the extraordinary, unfounded claim that Covid-19 \u201cwas the product of the Chinese Communist party &#8230; we know that virus was spawned in China\u201d. He says he cannot say whether Covid-19 was created on purpose or not by the Communist party, and backtracks slightly and China \u201cspawned\u201d the virus rather than created it. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2020\/jun\/21\/donald-trump-tulsa-rally-latest-updates-berman-bolton-protests-coronavirus-live\" target=\"_blank\">Trump adviser says Covid-19 was &#039;spawned&#039; by China \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade adviser Peter Navarro makes unfounded claimPresident returns to campaign trail at muted Oklahoma eventTrump says he ordered coronavirus testing to \u2018slow down\u2019US 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}