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Former US President Donald Trump told then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison that China “fucked the world” by unleashing Covid, a new book claims. The reported telephone conversation between the two leaders occurred on July 17, 2020, in a secure room in Canberra. Covid was beginning to spread across the world and Trump apparently had no qualms about expressing his feelings about who was to blame. “It was a shame,” Trump said, according to the book Plagued, by journalists Simon Benson and Geoff Chalmers, which details Australia’s political history during the pandemic. ‘Look what they (China) have done to the world. They’ve...