A new report undermines Trump's comments against the WHO and seems to confirm what was already obvious: he did not take the coronavirus crisis seriously as it emerged.
, American officials at the WHO. were in regular contact with the Trump administration regarding the spread of the virus—undermining the president’s claim that the pandemic had come out of nowhere and that neither he nor his White House could have foreseen an outbreak in the United States.
The report seems to provide confirmation of what was already obvious: Trump did not take the crisis seriously as it emerged, wasting valuable time downplaying the threat while the virus spread from China across the globe, and has put the WHO in the crosshairs not because it allowed his government to be blindsided by the pandemic, but because he was desperate for a scapegoat.
Not all the criticism of the United Nations public health agency has been in bad-faith; the organization has been accused of being too trusting of the Chinese government’s reporting on coronavirus. But you know who else had taken China’s word on COVID-19 at face value? This guy:
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