Trump to Press: ‘You And The Obama Administration Were Duped For Years By China’

“You don’t have the brains you were born with.”

President Trump reacted to a CNN reporter’s jibing against praise for his administration’s handling of the coronavirus crisis by telling the press as a whole that they are the ones who were duped ‘for years’ by China, along with his predecessor, Barack Obama.

Trump played another montage of positive video clips praising the government’s handling of the outbreak, which triggered CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond into charging that Trump is focusing on ‘self-congratulation’, rather than focusing on the death toll.

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“What I’m doing is standing up for the men and women that have done an incredible job,” Trump replied, adding “I’m also sticking up for doctors and nurses and military doctors and nurses.”

“Those people have been just absolutely excoriated by some of the fake news, like you.” Trump continued, adding “You’re CNN, you’re fake news. And let me just tell you, they were excoriated by people like you that don’t know any better because you don’t have the brains you were born with.”

Trump noted that he is used to being personally attacked, but is losing patience with critics of his coronavirus task force.

“It’s not about me, nothing’s about me. You’re never going to treat me fairly, many of you, and I understand that,” he said, adding “I got here with the worst, most unfair press treatment they say in the history of the United States for a president.”

Diamond also questioned if Trump has been “duped” by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“You know who was duped? You and the Obama administration was duped for years,” Trump responded, and further pointing to his early decision to...

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