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