China and the World Health Organization are not only complicit in one another's global coronavirus pandemic culpability, they are criminally negligent, according to President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
"[China's] failure to communicate clearly with WHO is a crime of international proportions, and WHO fixing it for China is disgraceful," Giuliani, the former New York City mayor told Sunday's "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM-N.Y.
"There is a lot to be looked into with China," he added to host John Catsimatidis.
"I don't know if this was in someway deliberate or it was an accident. I don't believe any part of their story. I think they're hiding the number of deaths right now."
The global skepticism of China's numbers has been shared by lawmakers and the U.S. intelligence community for weeks. Once it passed 80,000 cases, China stripped U.S. media credentials and has added a mere handful of cases per day, totaling just 83,134 confirmed COVID-19 cases to date, according to Johns Hopkins University.
"I'm not going to support funding the WHO under its current leadership," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said. "They've been deceptive, they've been slow, and they've been Chinese apologists. I don't think they're a good investment under the current leadership for the United States.
"And, until they change their behavior and get new leadership, I think it's in America's best interest to withhold funding because they have failed miserably when it comes to the coronavirus."
There are around 1.8 million confirmed COVID-19 positive cases worldwide and more than 110,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.
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