Trump seeks Covid "reparations" from China.

(RT) ⸻ Former US President Donald Trump has claimed to have been proven right on his speculation that Covid-19 emerged from a Chinese lab, saying Beijing must compensate the rest of the world for "unleashing" the virus and "allowing" it to spread globally. He cited statements from the US Department of Energy and the FBI that the virus "most likely" leaked from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology. However, neither the DOE nor the FBI provided any proof for its findings. Chinese officials responded by accusing President Joe Biden's administration of politicizing the origin-tracing of the virus and trying to smear China with unsupported claims. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that politicization had turned the issue into a "political football," making it more difficult to determine how the virus originated. Trump said China should be financially on the hook for a pandemic that has been blamed for nearly 6.9 million deaths globally, including 1.1 million in the US.