Given Trump’s history with Gates during his previous term, Gates’ comments aren’t surprising. For instance, while Trump cut funding and left the World Health Organization in 2020, his administration
continued to fund the Gates-backed GAVI vaccine alliance to the tune of a three-year pledge totaling $1.16 billion through the alleged
CIA-front organization United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In April 2020,
Trump lauded this partnership in a televised address to that year’s Global Vaccine Summit, stating “it’s great to be partnering with [Gavi]. We will work hard, we will work strong.” Notably, Gavi is one of the most
prominent funders of the WHO, along with the Gates Foundation, and also co-led the WHO’s vaccine distribution program, COVAX,
which “delivered nearly 2 billion doses of vaccines” across the globe. While Trump’s administration seemingly cut ties with the WHO during this period, it nevertheless supported at least one organization crucial to the WHO Covid response (i.e. Gavi).
In addition, the Trump administration itself arguably played a crucial in Gavi’s COVAX, as it funded, via Operation Warp Speed, some of the
main vaccines that COVAX distributed. Gates personally yielded colossal
returns on his investments in the Covid-19 vaccines, which were obviously aided by COVAX and the Trump administration’s fast-tracking of the vaccines themselves.
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