After it was reported that President Trump and the first lady had tested positive for COVID-19, the editor-in-chief of China’s Global Times had a tweet that garnered some attention:
The Chinese Communist Party covered up the coronavirus, silenced whistleblowers, coopted the WHO, lied to the world, and helped turn the coronavirus into a global pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans & more than 1 million worldwide. And now the CCP is weighing in. https://t.co/0g4Q2MfpRK
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) October 2, 2020
The Chinese Communist Party coronavirus infected the British Prime Minister and the American President and the CCP is openly doing a gleeful victory lap.
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) October 2, 2020
As you can see above, the tweet was eventually gone:
@HuXijin_GT you deleted your nasty tweet regarding @realDonaldTrump & @FLOTUS but it will not be forgotten #freedomforHongKong
— Mary Ellen (@mec1539) October 2, 2020
Here’s what it said:
@HuXijin_GT
China virus are power to US, why you delete this tweet?
Its great time for China#ChinaVirus pic.twitter.com/rQ7ecLdGTT— Kenny C? (@GloryT0HongKong) October 2, 2020
Ain’t screen grabs great… pic.twitter.com/YxhrxSuRnk
— Raymond Clum (@raymond_clum) October 2, 2020
That took some brass ones.
Sadly, if you told me this came from our own media, I'd believe you.
— Sean Carlson (@SeanRipmsm) October 2, 2020
Is there any difference between the Chinese state media and our own media?
— Zod (@Riley94510202) October 2, 2020
And many in the MSM will run these exact same talking points. Into the ground.
— Eric Trainor (@realEricTrainor) October 2, 2020
That deleted tweet was soon replaced by a retweet with a softer tone from a Chinese government official:
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