Trump speech: Fox refuses to air official address as ex-president demands ‘reparations’ from China

Donald Trump has called for China to pay “reparations” to the United States for the damage done by Covid-19, which originated in the city of Wuhan.

At a rare speech to a Republican convention in Greenville, North Carolina, the former president said China should be presented with a bill for $10 trillion and all countries that owe money to the Asian superpower should refuse to pay.

The former president criticised the social media giant’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who announced on Friday that Mr Trump was banned from the platform for at least two years.

“Zuckerberg, that is another beauty, they say they may allow me back in two years but I’m not too interested in that. It is so unfair, it is not just me, they are shutting down the voice of a much more powerful and a larger group,” he complained.

With YMCA by The Village People blaring out, Mr Trump has wrapped up his 85-minute speech in Greenville.

The former president continued his attacks on the fairness of the 2020 election, and even branded it the “most corrupt in the history of our country.”

But he denied claims by his critics that he was intent on undermining US democracy with his complaints and false claims.

“I’m not the one trying to undermine American democracy, I’m the one that’s trying to save it,” he said.

Mr Trump complained that investigations being done into the Trump Organization in New York were “the ultimate fishing expedition” and that prosecutors were trying to find any crime they could.

Former North Carolina governor Pat McCrory, who plans to run for the seat, took to Twitter to say that the former president had got “bad advice” in throwing his support behind the Republican congressman.

During his speech in North Carolina the former president claimed that his 15-year-old son, Barron Trump, has grown to 6ft 7 tall.

Mr Trump joked that his son Eric was now his short son at 6ft 4 in height.

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday pushed Republicans to support those candidates who share his values in next year’s midterm elections as he launched a new more active phase of his post presidency.

The former Republican president teased the prospect of another presidential bid of his own in 2024, but vowed first to be an active presence on the campaign trail for his allies in next year’s fight for control of Congress.

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A “historic” agreement by G7 leaders that aims to force internet giants to pay more tax sets the bar far too low, campaigners have warned.

Finance ministers from the group of seven wealthy nations struck a deal to establish a minimum global corporation tax of at least 15 per cent to prevent tax dodging by multinationals that book profits in low-rate countries as part of talks in London on Saturday.

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The US will give Taiwan 750,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine, part of Joe Biden’s move to share tens of millions of jabs globally, three American senators said on Sunday, after the self-ruled island complained that China is hindering its efforts to secure vaccines as it battles an outbreak.

Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who made a three-hour stop in Taiwan with fellow Democrat Christopher Coons of Delaware and Republican Dan Sullivan of Alaska, said their visit underscores bipartisan US support for the democratic island that Beijing claims as its own renegade territory.

Taiwan faces a severe vaccine shortage and has geopolitical significance as a flashpoint in US-China relations.

“I’m here to tell you that the United States will not let you stand alone,” Ms Duckworth said at the airport after landing on a US military transport plane. “We will be by your side to make sure the people of Taiwan have what they need to get to the other side of the pandemic and beyond.”