Bill Gates slams Donald Trump

| 4:00 pm EDT April 15, 2020
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Yesterday Donald Trump announced that he’s cutting off all U.S. funding for the World Health Organization. Trump claimed that the WHO is responsible for missing the coronavirus. In reality, while the WHO made some mistakes when it came to believing China, it was Donald Trump who most thoroughly and negligently ignored the coronavirus threat.

Bill Gates slammed Donald Trump for the move:

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Bill Gates is right. Whatever you think of how the WHO handled the coronavirus, it did a far better job than Donald Trump did. And if the WHO is too much in China’s back pocket, then the most effective way for the United States to turn this around would be to provide more funding for the WHO, not less. Trump doesn’t understand how anything works.

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