‘Start with a virus’: Trump suggests Covid-19 was invented to cost him the 2020 election

Continuing his bid to raise doubts over the election results, President Trump on Sunday retweeted a video containing several conspiracy theories around the 2020 race with a bizarre take on the origin of the coronavirus claiming it was engineered to tarnish his image. The video posted by an anonymous account called @a17time which tweets in support of President Trump showcases a string of claims starting from the origin of Covid-19 and leading to the 2020 polling and the election results. The video opens with the title in bold “How to steal an election” and voiceover says: 'Start with a virus, import it into America, talk about it nonstop, call some governors, put patients into nursing homes, kill thousands, blame the president, keep blaming, blame some more,' the narrator says, while shots of crowded hospitals and cemeteries play in the background.