President Donald Trump points as he watches workers on the assembly line manufacturing protective masks for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak during a tour of a Honeywell manufacturing facility in Phoenix, Arizona, US, May 5, 2020. (Reuters photo)
US President Donald Trump has accused Democrats of hoping his COVID-19 response fails so that they win the next presidential election.
Trump made the accusation on Tuesday hours before he visited a face-mask factory in Arizona, where he himself failed to follow infection-control guidelines by not wearing a mask.
"The House is a bunch of Trump haters," he told reporters when asked why he would allow Dr. Anthony Fauci to testify next week before a committee of the Republican-controlled US Senate but not the Democratic-majority House of Representatives.
"Because the House is a setup. The House is a bunch of Trump haters...They, frankly, want our situation to be unsuccessful, which means death, which means death, and our situation is going to be very successful."
Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease director, has openly contradicted Trumps assertions about the coronavirus crisis.
Trump, for instance, recommended the use of Hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, but Fauci rejected the idea and said research on the drug being carried out in China and France was not enough and only anecdotal.
The countrys top health expert is slated to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on May 12, despite earlier reports showing that the White House had blocked his appearance at a House Appropriations Committee hearing.
Trump, without providing any evidence, went on to say Tuesday that Democrats "want us to fail so they can win an election, which theyre not going to win."
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer have called for a probe into Trumps faulted reasoning resulting in a late response to the coronavirus outbreak which has so far affected more than 1,237,600 and killed over 72,200 across the country.
Democrats have criticized Trump for his disaster response, saying despite early warnings by Fauci and other experts, the president failed Americans during the fatal COVID-19 respiratory disease pandemic.
Fauci had recommended implementing social distancing to stem the coronavirus in February, but were snubbed for almost a month.
SOURCE: PRESS TV
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