{"id":5890,"date":"2021-05-22T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/?p=5890"},"modified":"2021-05-22T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T11:15:58","slug":"trump-sued-for-calling-covid-19-china-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/trump-sued-for-calling-covid-19-china-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump sued for calling COVID-19 &#8220;China virus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been sued by a civil rights group for calling COVID-19 the &#8220;China virus,&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Q\u0130A.AZ<\/strong>\u00a0reports citing Xinhua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The complaint, filed in a federal court in New York by the Chinese Americans Civil Rights Coalition (CACRC), alleged that Trump&#8217;s use of that phrase and other similar racist slurs is baseless, since the origin of the coronavirus is not yet determined, and that the former president&#8217;s conduct harmed the Chinese American community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump&#8217;s &#8220;extreme and outrageous conduct was carried out throughout the pandemic with reckless disregard of whether such conduct would cause Chinese Americans to suffer emotional distress,&#8221; stated the suit dated May 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic has led to a spike in violence against Asian Americans &#8212; a sizable portion of them Americans of Chinese descent &#8212; which activists have blamed on Trump&#8217;s rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suit further alleged that Trump continued to use those derogatory words to refer to the coronavirus even as he knew that the virus didn&#8217;t necessarily come from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The truth matters, words have consequences &#8230; especially from those in powerful and influential positions,&#8221; the complaint said. &#8220;(Trump) intentionally repeated those defamatory words to serve his own personal and political interest with astonishing level of actual malice and negligence, hence severely injuring the Chinese\/Asian Americans communities in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CACRC is asking that 1 U.S. dollar be paid to every Asian American and Pacific Islander living in the United States as an apology, which would total 22.9 million dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plaintiffs said they would use the money to establish a museum that will showcase the history of Asian American and Pacific Islanders communities and their contribution to the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been sued by a civil rights group for calling COVID-19 the &#8220;China virus,&#8221;\u00a0Q\u0130A.AZ\u00a0reports citing Xinhua. The complaint, filed in a federal court in New York by the Chinese Americans Civil Rights Coalition (CACRC), alleged that Trump&#8217;s use of that phrase and other similar racist slurs is baseless, since the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/trump-sued-for-calling-covid-19-china-virus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump sued for calling COVID-19 &#8220;China virus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}