COVID: State Wins Multi-BILLION Damages Judgment Against China — Here’s The 411
If the government doesn't pay up... there are other ways to get their cash back
Trump took a lot of heat for calling it the ‘Chinavirus’ but at least one federal judge sees China as culpable for damages — a LOT of them.
It could be decades before we finally figure out the extent of the ways America and the world were crippled by the Wuhan Wheezer. But one judge has affixed a particularly LARGE figure to the damages… and the State AG is not waiting around for them to pay up.
It began as a lawsuit taken up in 2020 by then-Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. Cases like this one are not quick in resolving, especially when trying to moved them forward in the middle of a pandemic.
The judgement was not quick in coming, but come it has… with the federal judge ruling in Missouri’s favor. To the tune of $24 BILLION dollars.
The specific complaint concerned the well-documented case of China quietly buying up much of the global supply of Personal Protective Gear while keeping quiet about the true nature and extent of the illness that had already begun its spread from Wuhan China.
A federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of Missouri in the state’s $24 billion lawsuit against China’s Communist Party that accused it of hoarding protective supplies during the coronavirus pandemic.
“This is a landmark victory for Missouri and the United States in the fight to hold China accountable for unleashing COVID-19 on the world,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in a statement.
“China refused to show up to court, but that doesn’t mean they get away with causing untold suffering and economic devastation. We intend to collect every penny by seizing Chinese-owned assets, including Missouri farmland.” — FoxNews
China may have blown off the lawsuit, and refused to attend the hearings. That does not allow them to ignore the ruling. Even if the disagree with the judge and refuse to pay, there are other options at Missouri’s disposal to get the restitution the court has ordered China to pay.
As mentioned in the response of the AG who put the suit in motion:
And of current AG, Andrew Bailey himself:
Missouri’s AG has been busy lately… looking into the relevance of Joe Biden’s mental state in orders and pardons that impact Missouri at the State level… asking DOGE to look into a $5 Billion green energy scam, and now this.
It’s almost as if he’s taking the pace Trump’s second administration is keeping as a personal challenge.