Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit against the Chinese government, the Communist Party of China and others, alleging that the hiding of information and other actions at the outset of the coronavirus outbreak led to loss of life and significant economic damage in Missouri.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican, blames China for letting the coronavirus spread. So he's suing China, three government ministries, two local governments, two laboratories and the Communist Party in U.S. District Court.
China, however, is protected by sovereign immunity, and Missouri's got no standing to sue it, even in American courts. Schmitt says there's an exception for commercial activity, and he alleges that labs and hospitals are commercial ventures. He's also counting the Communist Party as a non-state actor, which he says fortifies his legal argument.
Other Republicans are also moving to hold China — not U.S. officials — accountable for American coronavirus deaths and economic damage. Last week, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley
Funny US should suspect itself first ok？come on if you don't have enough evidence to prove your proposition，don't blame China too early.Otherwise you will regret.
I heard China is quivering right now...they must be freaking out knowing Missouri is suing them. I bet they are crying themselves to sleep.
Meanwhile, GovParsonMO slashed $700M from the budget
Good luck moron
Another demonstration of pure capitalist greed and groundless accusation to hide their own incapability to govern and protect their own people! They might as well go rob China directly like their ancestors did one hundred years ago!
What a ridiculous waste of time, effort and money.
Does this mean I can sue the 'leader' and his administration for their handeling of this pandemic when it started in US?
Some days I am embarrassed to be from Mo. Does that mean Vietnam can sue the US for all the death and destruction we caused in their country? Pulling political stunts like this in the middle of a pandemic is unconscionable,
Better to sue Trump for his negligence in handling this pandemic. He said it would magically disappear come Spring.
Again with interstate commerce. They want it applied now, but to them the virus is not interstate!
Why are we not suing the PRESIDENT?! Like... Oml I am not from Missouri anymore 🙃
Never been more ashamed to live in Missouri. GOP needs a better playbook. This is not the answer.
🤣🤣🤣 political stunt. 🙄
So fucking stupid. Yeah, China didn't handle it the best, but back in December, it was clear from what they were saying, that we should have been preparing for something awful. The real blame here is with Trump & his government, who basically spread pro-virus propaganda.
I guess good ol MO doesn't have anything better to do.
So he is wasting tax payer money so he can act like a tough guy. What a clown 🤡
Really, Missouri? This is the best use of your time and resources in the middle of a pandemic? We are GLOBAL citizens. Instead, why isn’t Missouri sponsoring collaboration with China? Has anyone in the Missouri government taken leadership courses?
This seems like a waste of resources. Next Spain will sue the State of Kansas for being the origins of the Spanish Flu of 1918.
Feels like an Onion headline
More swampy repubs, ‘this truly is you, get what you vote for’.
All about headlines. Americans are better than always blaming someone else. At least we used to be. 'Sue everyone for everything.' Too bad and so sad IMHO
Jesus... the collective brain cells in the GOP leadership is just underwhelming, to say the least.
This is beyond stupid. I'm no fan of China but you can only blame them so much before you acknowledge that ultimately we're in this position because of our handling of the disaster.
How do conservatives get so stupid?
Save your money for test kits idiot
stlpublicradio What a fantastic use of time and resources.
stlpublicradio Voting in state elections matter.
stlpublicradio Missouri is being an idiot. That is all.
GOP grandstanding to takes focus off tRump’s failures and energize their racist base.
Idiots 😑 Americans have gotten stupider 😫 I just can’t
Trump did nothing for months!!!!
Waste of money and time.
Who is making money off this stupidity?
I hope they are doing so in their own personal downtime and expense and not at the taxpayers expense. Morons.
Why do liberals love communist China? Serious question.
Nothing better to do?
Someone needs to hold china accountable
Y'all do know you can hold Trump accountable along with New York politicians and still want Justice. CCP silenced whistleblowers who knew about this in November. Now lives and livelihoods have been lost. Hold everyone involved accountable.
Your community has been robbed, and you have to compensate everyone for the loss, because you were the first to be robbed, and you failed to subdue the robbers. How absurd! It's shameful to be inhuman!
I am so embarrassed by my country.
you need to sue WHO as well and I don't mean Roger Daltry
That’s like a dude who won’t wear a condom suing his girlfriend’s ex for giving him the clap and also for the ex not warning the dude she may get have gotten it from him.
L O L
Trump Admin and State Gov creat so many jokes for the TV show. lol,
I believe I read of a trillion dollar lawsuit by a Miami law firm (of whom I believe Joe Biden’s brother is a partner) against China. It is a class action suit and they are skirting the sovereign immunity protection and had previously successfully presented a similar suit.
China absolutely deserves the blame! Worse, China hasn’t apologized!! US should show leadership here, calculate the global losses, cancel all of China’s holdings of US debt and proportionally share the funds with all affected countries. China must pay for their lies and deceit!
They sue the Chinese Communist Party, not China. They sue an organisation, not a country.
How freakin' embarrassing.
He will see the same sue here in China against U.S. But tell me, what's the fucking use of this kind of rubbish?
Money well spent?
.BigElad is running against this person and could use your support :)
Ignoramous!
Missouri needs to sue Trump for waiting 2 months to do anything about Covid-19 😠 Missouri FireTrump
Good
Waste of money you don’t have!
More why?
tojoflowers
Ummm ya.....can we make ourselves look even dumber? Jeez....
A ridiculous waste of tax payer money-- both the Missouri attorney general's salary and the actual law suit against China. Spend funding on COVID-19, improving the educational system and fixing socioeconomic and racial inequities.
Wasting taxpayers money on bs.
Holy shit, Republicans are embarrassing.
Maybe they should be suing realDonaldTrump instead.
States can’t sue other countries, can they?
'Missouri is suing China for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.' Let's see...2020 gubernatorial races...Ahh! Missouri! Governor Mike Parson GovParsonMO is running to hold the Governor's seat. Took all of about 3 seconds to see through this dumbass political charade.
I believe that is a campaign video shoot, I may be mistaken
😂 culture preceding strategy
If you lose you should refund all expenses paid by the Missouri taxpayers.
'Missouri wastes taxpayer money'
Money is no issue to Missouri. Let’s just flush it down the toilet.
Are you sure China is the one you are mad at? Look Closer! much closer!
Sue tRump you fools
That’s an effective use of tax payer $$ ... NOT! Grandstanding or Propaganda you decide.
Good luck Idiots. Trumpvirus is the one to blame. Government response was late and out of order. Sue the Federal Government is the right move.
REJECTION. Man exploiting facial advantages and location advantages unauthorized. Legal loophole.
Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt said “the Chinese government lied about the dangers of the virus and didn't do enough to slow its spread.” Didn’t realDonaldTrump do the same thing with his inaction? Is MO going to sue him as well?
Welp, that’s a good use of much needed state funds! 🙄
Because. Missouri.
It’s not China’s fault that the US has so mismanaged this pandemic! It is the Trump Administration’s fault
I don't have a problem with this. Every country/state should do the same.
Merica
Seems like a legit use of resources. 👍
IF THERE IS A WAY TO GET THE (AIIB) ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BANK TO REIMBURSE US THEY MAY HAVE A CASE....
A blatant political stunt. Red meat for the Trump Train and Fox News.
Just another grandstanding AG who needs to grow up. He will have his backside handed to him when reality occurs. There’s too much of this junk happening today. The Show Me State motto will be applicable when he wastes tax payers money on a futile effort. GRANDSTANDING!!
If the “Show Me State” can sue China over the coronavirus pandemic (how do you define a win?), there are enough Americans, especially hyphenated Americans, to form a class action lawsuit for defamation against Donald Trump. He ruins lives with lies.
Smartwoman2019 We should sue the shit out of the Republican Party then.
Awesome that means we can sue Trump.
What the *+?
If Singer can bring Argentina to its knees over defaulted bonds he bought for pennies on the dollar, then maybe Missouri can find some bozo judge to go along. China is a bigger fish though WuhanCoronaVirus
Aren’t people there saying it’s a hoax?
Racist scapegoating. The End.
Clearly, Missouri AG got his law degree from Trump University. This is not just a waste of money & distraction, but also instigation of racial animosity. This case should be immediately thrown out by the court.
Good luck with that.
HAHAHHAHAHA
DeliaMacD1 When can we sue the trump administration for how they mishandled our response to this pandemic?
I guess what strikes me is what a great use of state resources this is and not a politically motivated dipshit boondoggle.
More third-rate realDonaldTrump stoogery.
Can we sue the state of Missouri when their protestors contract, then subsequently spread, the virus due to their idiocy?
How much will this stunt cost?
Really? waste
Only a fool like the Missouri Republican AG.....
Why there are so many political clowns in the US? While doing this, they are wasting time that should be spent saving lives and stopping virus spread.
Is Missouri suing trump for dismantling, disregarding, denying, diverting, dodging and deconstructing the U.S. response to Covid-19?
DumbFuckery at its finest.
No doubt the Democrat Party and their publicly funded media office calling itself NPR will rally to the aid of their Chinese communist allies.
More BS to deflect from the terrible job the orange POS is doing.
Way to waste the taxpayer money. I’m assuming this is pandering to someone, I’m just not sure which fools will be impressed by this
How about China suing United States for the disinformation and weak handling of H1N1 in 2009? All jokes.
Good luck with that. I guess lawyers need work too.
This will be nothing but a waste of their tax dollars.
Governor or Maryland gets thousands of tests from South Korea. Meanwhile in Missouri...
Grandstanding bullshit that throws red meat to the base and accomplishes nothing .
There are some dumbass politicians on both sides in this country
December: Coronavirus might be a problem. January: Coronavirus is likely gonna be a problem. February: Coronavirus is causing some problems. March: Coronavirus is a huge problem. April: ⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️📈 Coronavirus: Now that's on you booboo.
GovParsonMO pretty sure you should be sued instead
another desperate move by republicans to distract people from the passive genocide they’re conducting.
Interesting. I very sincerely hope this is not the reckless misuse of public resources and courts that appears to be on the surface. If basis is found, then it was smart. If not, it is misuse of funds during a crisis. Wonder who did risk analysis here?
add Trump to that !! we would have less death had he acted sooner and got PPE and testing out
This should help people in MO
Tell the Gov the motto is Show Me not Show Boat.
That’ll show em 🙄
so many suing so many. what the heck?
Scapegoating China when their constituency benefited immensely from their partnership. Still, the wheels are coming off and better China is blamed than them.
So, Missouri are going to take China to the world court which Trump has claimed we don't have to listen to. Then how do you sue China for mishandling the coronavirus when Trump also mishandled the outbreak. FEB 1 we knew about COVID19 and Trump did not contain it.
Good luck with that!
But why did Missouri Governor wait until Mar 21 to issue a social distancing order limiting group gatherings and until Apr 6 to issue a stay at home order? He could have taken steps earlier. Maybe he should sue FoxNews for downplaying concern in Feb and first two weeks of Mar?
Meanwhile, Maryland is working with South Korea for test kits and nearly opening an embassy there.
What a bunch of maroons
Anybody sue those bankers yet for 2008?
Good thing the ole red white and blue hasn’t ever downplayed a humanitarian crisis
RepubliCon grandstanding as usual
This reality keeps getting more and more weird. Either that or I should stop snorting horse tranquilizer.
The world should sue Missouri for stupidity
Well this won’t be a monumental waste of resources.
CUhlmann Missouri had commercial activity?
This is sure to open up markets for Missouri farmers. And doesn't even work very well as a diversion from GOP blame in TrumpGenocide
So, on that basis they will be suing Trump for his mishandling of the CoVid crisis too?
So wait a second. 9/11 victims families where just told the other day they could not sue or get the info needed to sue Saudi Arabia. But Missouri can sue China for a pandemic. This country is so upside down and twisted it’s beyond comprehensions
Do they take the bar exam in crayon in that state?
This is only for a distraction, for their own inaction and stupidity. They should be suing themselves, Fox News and Trump.
Afraid to sue the real culprit, Trump?
States are now dealing with international affairs? We’ve literally gone back 200 years in history
I thought conservatives hated the courts. Hey, Missouri....prepare to lose a LOT of money and be thought of as nothing more than an embarassment. COVIDIOTS
🤣🤣🤣
So we have money for this as we cut even more education funding.
NPR will take China's side over Missouri. Of course. Why do American taxpayers pay for NPR? DefundNPR
Ahahaha 🤣 goodness what a complete and utter waste of time.
lol
Goodluck! WHY isn't the whole world suing them
The dumbing down of America continues
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