Trump’s National Security Adviser Compares Chinese Regime’s ‘Coverup’ of COVID-19 to Chernobyl

Trump’s National Security Adviser Compares Chinese Regime’s ‘Coverup’ of COVID-19 to Chernobyl
National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien speaks to reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House in Washington on May 21, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Isabel van Brugen
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President Donald Trump’s national security adviser on Sunday compared the Chinese regime’s response to the CCP virus pandemic to the Soviet Union’s handling of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

“This was a virus that was unleashed by China. There was a coverup that someday they’re going to do an HBO show like they did with Chernobyl on this virus,” White House adviser Robert O’Brien claimed during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” referring to a 2019 television miniseries on what is considered the world’s worst nuclear accident in the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Isabel van Brugen
Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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