U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty has released a video critical of the World Health Organization.
This, after President Donald Trump announced he’s halting all funding for the group.
Hagerty said in a statement that the video features a timeline exposing the WHO’s efforts with the Communist Chinese regime to hide valuable information related to the Wuhan coronavirus and calling for a full investigation.
“The Communist Chinese regime lied about the Wuhan coronavirus. The WHO’s leadership has been their accomplice since the beginning. I appreciate President Trump’s decision to suspend funding for the WHO and believe there must be a full investigation,” Hagerty said.
“Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a long-time friend of the Communist regime, apparently has been bought and paid for by President Xi. Dr. Tedros continues to aid in China’s misinformation campaign. By parroting the regime’s talking points, the WHO added legitimacy to China’s cover-up, which diverted the world from the truth — costing valuable time and placing hundreds of thousands of lives at risk.”
As The Tennessee Star reported earlier this month, Hagerty weighed in on China in a FOX News editorial with Andy Puzder. Puzder was chief executive officer of CKE Restaurants and is currently a senior fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.
In the column, both men praised U.S. President Donald Trump for “an extraordinary job” slowing the spread of the coronavirus by, among other things, banning travel with China.
“But make no mistake, the efforts of China’s communist overlords to conceal and destroy evidence regarding COVID-19; including silencing their own people, expose this regime’s true intentions: to preserve their power and evade responsibility for their gross misconduct. Communist leaders prioritized regime control over the safety of the Chinese people, the world’s health, and the global economy,” Hagerty and Puzder wrote.
“This isn’t the first time it has been necessary for President Trump to stand up to the Communist Chinese regime. He kept his campaign promise and took on their unfair trade practices, which included heavy subsidies for China’s state-controlled industries, forced technology transfers for firms seeking access to China’s domestic markets, and outright theft of intellectual property. Using targeted tariffs, President Trump pressured China to end its abusive trade practices. The Communist leaders finally came to the negotiating table and signed the historical ‘Phase One’ trade deal with America.”
Watch the video:
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Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star. Follow Chris on Facebook. Email tips to [email protected].
Hagerty is so transparent, we see right through him!
Tennesseans don’t need or want another government funded tick, like Lame-R Alexander. Vote “anybody but Hagerty”!