Trump Says He Has Doubts About China’s Official Virus Data

Trump Says He Has Doubts About China’s Official Virus Data
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at a briefing on the CCP virus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House in Washington, on March 26, 2020. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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President Donald Trump on Thursday expressed his doubts about the number of COVID-19 cases being reported by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) in its official data that is quoted around the world.

“You don’t know what the numbers are in China,” the president said when asked by a reporter whether he was surprised that the United States has surpassed China in the number of cases of the CCP virus.