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While the communist Chinese government was busy cranking out deceitful propaganda claiming the coronavirus had originated in the United States, CNN’s Chris Cuomo spent part of his Wednesday night show scolding President Trump for calling it the “Chinese Virus.” He even suggested that top health officials don’t call it that “because it could have come from anywhere.”
“Calling it the Chinese Virus or the Wuhan Virus or the Kung Flu. Listen, you may think it's clever but it's hurting,” Cuomo proclaimed. “The idea, ‘well it did come from China.’ Then why doesn't Fauci and other top health officials, why don’t they call it that? You know why? Because it could have come from anywhere.”
To dismantle Cuomo’s strawman argument, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the rest of the coronavirus task force were busy dealing with the crisis and it wasn’t their job. They’re not the ones that need to tackle the geopolitical jockeying or play the international game of chess between the U.S. and China right now. That’s the President’s job. Calling it out as the “Chinese Virus” or “Wuhan Virus” cut through the propaganda campaign.
Cuomo followed the strawman up with an erroneous liberal media claim that “attacks against the Asian community are on the rise.” He then played a clip of PBS NewsHour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor asking about a White House staffer who allegedly called the virus “Kung Flu,” an accusation with zero evidence to back it up and the accuser (CBS White House correspondent Weijia Jiang) has refused to give a name.
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