Trump news – live: President says coronavirus ‘worse attack’ on US than Pearl Harbour and 9/11 as White House renews campaign against China

Donald Trump has described the coronavirus outbreak as the “worst attack” the US has ever seen on its soil, surpassing Pearl Harbour and 9/11, blaming China for failing to contain the disease: “It should have been stopped right at the source, and it wasn’t.”Secretary of state Mike Pompeo also resumed his criticism of Beijing on Wednesday, insisting: “They knew. China could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. China could have spared the world descent into global economic malaise.”