Trump adviser: China using resurgent Covid scare ‘to spook’ U.S. into keeping economy closed – IOTW Report

Trump adviser: China using resurgent Covid scare ‘to spook’ U.S. into keeping economy closed

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A senior policy adviser to a Trump advocacy group says China is “trying to spook” American media and blue-state governors into keeping the U.S. economy shuttered following the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Curtis Ellis, policy director with America First Policies, a 501c4 that works closely with Trump administration officials, said China is putting out disinformation to divide Americans.

“China put out information that Beijing’s on a wartime footing because there was a second wave, because they got 57 cases of covid,” Ellis told Just the News in a video interview. “This is meant for American consumption. They’re trying to spook the American media and these blue-state governors to keep the economy shut down, to keep small businesses shut down.”

Curtis, who was also a senior policy advisor with the Trump presidential campaign in 2016 and has been traveling this year with Vice President Mike Pence promoting a post-Covid economic recovery, said it was big businesses who have best been able to manage through the coronavirus. Large chain stores were allowed to remain open even while smaller businesses shut down.

“The big players have been doing quite well through this whole shutdown,” Ellis said. “It’s the small players, the small businesses, and the average American who can’t work from a laptop, who work with their hands that have been hit hardest. So we need to get this going again.” 

Ellis said for decades leaders of the Democratic Party lulled Americans into a false sense of security about China by urging Americans to grow their business and other engagements with China.

“That’s how you’re going to help the reformers and not the hardliners,” Ellis said Americans were told. “That was all a ruse.” more

12 Comments on Trump adviser: China using resurgent Covid scare ‘to spook’ U.S. into keeping economy closed

  1. …maybe, maybe NOT, since the Dog Meat Festival just opened in Yulin, China, not far from Wuhan, hard TELLIN’ what you can get from eating open-air hanging hindquarter of Rover, killed painfully and unprofessionally slaughtered without any visible hygenic practices on the hottest week of the year, what could possibly go wrong…

    WARNING: NO JOKE, DO NOT OPEN THIS LINK IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO REAL IMAGES OF RECOGNIZABLE DOGS BUTCHERED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. NOT KIDDING. YOU ARE WARNED.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/yulin-dog-meat-festival-explainer-what-is-it-when-start-banned-controversy-a8410426.html

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  2. Why does the Chinese Communist Party brainstorm on how to destroy America from within? Why not just give the democrats a couple hundred million dollars every election cycle? Hey, wait a minute…

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  3. Faith is the opposite of fear. Who can use faith for anything when you believe in nothing?
    Communists believe in…? Democrats believe in…? Fear is all they have. Who fears Whu-flu?
    Should it not be addressed with logic and reason? You know…science? Which begs the question, do they fear God? /sarc.

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  4. I wish I could say this was just China trying to scare us, but if they are, they are scaring their own as well. I have a friend in Beijing, and she has to get tested before she can travel (and she travels a lot).
    On the other hand, I am not one of those who believe that Covid-19 is the next coming of the black plague. I refuse to be isolated at home when I can get out. I respect your wish to stay 6 feet away from me, if that is what you want, but I will not destroy my life because some politicians want to ruin our way of life.

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  5. I read that good sources claim that China is planning an EMP attack against the US to be followed by an invasion
    once most of our population is dead. I think it is Ironic that one of the main things slowing down that plan is their own WhuFlu that they dumped on the world.
    The history of the 1918 Spanish Flu shows that crowded troopships are deathtraps in a pandemic. That’s one of the
    reasons they are trying so hard to steal a vaccine.

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