Mandates related to COVID-19 are wrong and should be rescinded, former President Donald Trump told The Epoch Times in an exclusive interview. “We have to end the mandates,” Trump said on The Epoch Times’ “Kash’s Corner” in an interview premiering at 8 p.m. Eastern on Feb. 7 on EpochTV.com. “They have to be ended and they shouldn’t have started,” Trump added. Trump was president when SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, emerged in China in late 2019. Under Trump, the federal government did not impose vaccine or mask mandates, but some states and counties required masks, including California. Under President Joe Biden many jurisdictions began requiring COVID-19 vaccines to dine out, go to concerts, and even work. Biden ordered the military, federal contractors, agencies in his administration, health care workers, and all Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees to get vaccinated. All of the mandates have been challenged and …