Back during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and fights over its origination in China and its release into the world, then as Missouri’s attorney general, Eric Schmitt sued.
He won a $24 billion judgment against Chinese interests.
Now they are suing Schmitt, a U.S. senator after his election.
“It’s totally ridiculous,” Schmitt with during an interview on “The Ingraham Angle. “They’re just mad that we exposed their lies and their deceit.”
According to a report at Fox, the “retaliation” against Schmitt is coming from the People’s Government of Wuhan Municipality, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
COVID-19 now is widely considered by experts to have come out of the institute, located in Wuhan.
The plaintiffs are demanding $50 billion.
“Missouri got a $24 billion judgment against them, and they don’t like that,” Schmitt continued. “They unleashed COVID on the world. We sued them, and we won.”
He confirmed he “won’t be apologizing” to China any time soon.
The action claims that Schmitt, FBI co-deputy director Andrew Bailey and the state of Missouri damaged the reputations of China, Wuhan and associated facilities.
The Chinese claim the original action was “malicious vexatious litigation” and that the defendants fabricated disinformation.
Schmitt confirmed he’s having the Chinese paperwork translated.
Schmitt’s action was against the People’s Republic of China, several government ministries, the Communist Party there, Wuhan’s Institute and more.
He accused the Chinese government of withholding information on COVID-19 and failing to contain the outbreak. In fact, evidence now shows that China did withhold information about the pandemic-creating disaster and more.
According to the Independent Journal Review, Schmitt has “brushed off” the allegations.
“Sour grapes,” he charged.
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