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# Donald Trump vs Helen Clark in the COVID-19 Saga
- URL: https://goodoil.news/donald-trump-vs-helen-clark-in-the-covid-19-saga/
- Published: 2020-07-18T00:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-07-17T18:03:02.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Health, NZ Politics, Politics, USA Politics, World Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

Doubtless, the UN is still smarting from President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US funding of the World Health Organisation because Trump said [the US contribution was not fair](https://qz.com/1838378/what-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-suspension-of-who-funding/?ref=goodoil.news).

> Trump has also expressed frustration that the US pays a disproportionate share of the WHO’s operational budget in comparison to China. The US is required to cover 22% of overall mandatory contributions, while China is expected to cover 12% in 2020-21, even though it has a population of [1.4 billion people](https://data.worldbank.org/country/china?ref=goodoil.news) and a [GDP of $13.6 trillion](https://data.worldbank.org/country/china?ref=goodoil.news).

Trump is now unhappy with [Helen Clark’s appointment as co-chair ](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-appoints-former-new-zealand-pm-coronavirus-inquiry?ref=goodoil.news)of the WHO’s Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) along with the former president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

> The [World Health Organization](https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-health-organization?ref=goodoil.news) has appointed former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who criticized the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO as “foolish,” to lead the embattled agency’s probe into the [coronavirus](https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus?ref=goodoil.news) pandemic – as the Trump administration says it fears a “**whitewashed” investigation.**

Clark may be smarting from losing out on the UN Secretary General appointment in 2016 but her new appointment as co-chair of an investigation into the handling of COVID-19 provides some succour. She resorts to **using the pandemic as the reason why Trump should rethink his withdrawal of WHO funding**. “To withdraw funding from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic is clearly foolish,” [she said in an interview](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-appoints-former-new-zealand-pm-coronavirus-inquiry?ref=goodoil.news).

But Trump believes the UN investigation into WHO and the CCP will be biased because of Clark’s very cosy relationships with Communist dictators.

> …\[Clark\] attracted the ire of U.N. Watch, a Geneva-based watchdog: “**Helen Clark has an attraction to Communist dictatorships. Here she is showering praise on Cuba’s Communist regime for sending doctors abroad**.”

At the end of May Trump acted on his threat and [withdrew US funding of the WHO](https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/29/trump-us-terminate-who-relationship/?ref=goodoil.news).

> “We will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and **redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs**,” Trump said. “**The world needs answers from China on the virus.**”

Trump quite rightly believes that the US can redirect the funds that would have gone to WHO into global health needs, clearly stating the US would not be party to a cover-up of the CCP involvement in COVID-19\. Good for him. No doubt he can spend the money more wisely than the outdated monstrous UN machine. Trump also believes Clark’s contribution to the UN investigation into COVID-19 is predictable and I am inclined to agree. The global pandemic has become a very useful political tool to those who seek to gain from it.

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