'No question' Trump's racist rhetoric fuelled anti-Asian hate, says White House

Joe Biden 's White House press secretary Jen Psaki has said there is "no question" that racist rhetoric used by Donald Trump and his allies has led to a spike in discrimination against Asian Americans . President Trump repeatedly labelled the deadly respiratory disease the " China virus" or "Wuhan flu" throughout the last year as his administration oversaw the loss of half a million American lives to the pandemic and he sought a scapegoat for his own mishandling of the crisis, attempting to pin the blame on China, where the virus was first identified. Mr Trump had also stoked…