Former President Donald Trump says China owes the world and the United States reparations for the damages caused by COVID-19.
Addressing the North Carolina Republican Party state convention, Trump said, "The time has come for America and the world to demand reparations and accountability from the Communist Party of China. We should all declare within one voice that China must pay. They must pay."
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