BREAKING: Donald Trump would be ‘delighted’ to help terminally ill baby Charlie Gard
DONALD Trump has tweeted he would be “delighted” to help terminally ill Charlie Gard if he can.
By ALIX CULBERTSON
Express.co.uk
Mon, Jul 3, 2017
The United States president tweeted at 3pm BST: “If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the UK and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.”
Ten-month-old Charlie has been receiving specialist treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital since he was born in October 2016 with a rare condition called mitochondrial depletion syndrome.
His parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, have been fighting to keep him on life-support but lost their final appeal with the European Court of Human Rights last week to take him to the US for experimental treatment.
They had crowdfunded £1.3million to pay for the treatment.
Mr Trump’s tweet garnered 7,400 ‘likes’ and 2,300 retweets in the 50 minutes after he tweeted.
Charlie’s life-support was due to be turned off last Friday but the hospital has said it will continue Charlie’s care to allow his family to spend more time with him.
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