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“#CNN reports COVID truth after spewing anti-Trump propaganda<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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CNN has just breathlessly announced<\/a> that it has uncovered a \u201cvast trove of leaked documents show[ing] China underreported COVID-19 numbers\u201d and deliberately covered up the seriousness of the epidemic.<\/p>\n

The only trouble with CNN\u2019s blockbuster is that it is almost a year old.<\/p>\n

The rest of the world has known since February or so that China\u2019s Communist leaders hid the epidemic from the world for as long as they could. After the outbreak began late last year in the city of Wuhan, they silenced their own doctors and blocked visits from outside medical investigators. They lied about the virus to the WHO, and then got the WHO to lie for them. They allowed travel<\/a>ers from China to spread the virus to more than 180 countries at the same time they were putting tens of millions of their own people in quarantine.<\/p>\n

Beijing did all this while reporting such ridiculously low numbers of cases and deaths that most credible news<\/a> organizations were skeptical.<\/p>\n

Real journalists, such as those who work at our government-funded Radio Free Asia, started digging. RFA reported at the end of March<\/a> that the death toll in Wuhan was many times higher than the 2,500 or so that Beijing was claiming at the time. As bodies piled up in the city\u2019s crematoria and truckloads of funeral urns arrived for the ashes of the deceased, they estimated the actual number of coronavirus victims at 46,800.<\/p>\n

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After regurgitating Chinese propaganda on COVID that makes Trump look bad, CNN is suddenly reporting the truth.<\/figcaption>
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CNN, on the other hand, swallowed Beijing\u2019s narrative whole and soon began regurgitating its propaganda in the same fashion.<\/p>\n

On April 15, 2020, for example, CNN reported<\/a> that \u201cnot a single serving member of the country\u2019s military has been infected.\u201d America, however, wasn\u2019t doing so well:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reported absence of cases among China\u2019s armed forces comes despite the fact that thousands of military personnel<\/a> were sent to Wuhan to assist in front line medical efforts. It also comes in sharp contrast to \u2026 the United States, which ha[s] seen an uptick in cases in recent weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

What was CNN\u2019s source for its report that China\u2019s military was handling the coronavirus much better than America\u2019s armed forces? The website<\/a> of the People\u2019s Liberation Army of Communist China, which of course is no fan of the US military.<\/p>\n

Over the past year, CNN has lifted a lot of its coronavirus stories directly from Beijing\u2019s propaganda broadsheets, but my all-time favorite is this gem<\/a> from April 7, 2020:<\/p>\n

\u201cChina reported no new novel coronavirus deaths or locally transmitted cases yesterday, according to the country\u2019s National Health Commission \u2026 There were 32 new cases \u2014 all of them imported from abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CNN\u2019s initial reports about COVID came directly from the Chinese government, setting Trump up for failure and will give Biden an edge when he takes over the presidency.<\/figcaption>
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Leave aside the predictable effort to shift the blame for the epidemic onto foreigners. They are always a convenient whipping boy for the xenophobic CCP.<\/p>\n

Just consider the claim of \u201cno new cases\u201d in a country the size of China. And ask yourself this: If that were true, why were the 11 million inhabitants of Wuhan, along with millions elsewhere in China, still under lockdown? It\u2019s absurd on the face of it.<\/p>\n

Could it be that the woke elites at CNN were more than happ<\/a>y to report, virtually verbatim, the most outrageous claims of the CCP simply in order to make the United States and President Trump\u2019s handling of the epidemic look bad by comparison?<\/p>\n

And now that the election is over, have they perhaps decided that it\u2019s time to stop serving as the unofficial propaganda arm of the CCP \u2014 at least where the coronavirus is concerned \u2014 lest they make the next president look bad?<\/p>\n

As for me, I will stay glued to CNN, waiting with bated breath for their next \u201cexclusive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe by next year CNN will \u201cdiscover\u201d that the China Virus came from \u2026 China.<\/p>\n

Now that would be news.<\/p>\n

Steven W. Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and the author of \u201cBully of Asia: Why China\u2019s \u2018Dream\u2019 is the New Threat to World Order<\/a>.\u201d\n <\/div>\n