Posted on 03/07/2025 7:49:11 PM PST by Libloather
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."
Bailey's office said the judgment was six times larger than the previous largest judgment in the state's history.
Judge Stephen Limbaugh said in his ruling that the "Court finds that Missouri has provided evidence satisfactory to the Court to establish each Defendant’s liability to Missouri under Count IV of Plaintiff’s Complaint. The Court therefore enters a judgment against Defendants, jointly and severally, in the amount of $24,488,825,457.00, plus postjudgment interest."
The People’s Republic of China, the Communist Party of China, the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, the Ministry of Emergency Management of the People’s Republic of China, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, the People’s Government of Hubei Province, the People’s Government of Wuhan City, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences were all named as defendants in the lawsuit.
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Collecting the judgement will be difficult. Perhaps have Congress pass legislation allowing Chinese owned farms in America to be seized.
Two problems solved together, IMHO.
Try and collect
Is the judge related to El Rushbo? Cape Girardo? Limbaugh?
Of course. He is a cousin of Rush.
Take what you can of theirs. God is going to charge them a far heavier price.
And when they start seizing factories and production of US goods in China it will spur more of this. Who knows if decoupling will be good but best buckle up for some economic pain in the near to medium term future.
Then I think he held the verdict in his tobacco-stained hands and delivered it with one half of his brain tied behind his back.
This is good news. China did very great damage to our country with Covid. Hopefully other states will now follow suit.
But Sen. “China Mitch” McConnell will certainly be having a sad over this. I guess you can’t please everyone.
LOL.
When we lived in that area in the ‘80s, we were acquainted with several Limbaugh families.
We were in a local business when Rush’s grandfather had a car accident in front of it.
We were new to the area, but one of the counter workers said it was “old man Limbaugh” driving and no one was hurt.
At that time we had no idea who Rush Limbaugh was.
Does China have $24 billion in Missouri?
“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.”
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At the moment I can’t think of a constitutional reason why they couldn’t seize Chinese property in other states also…. after proper court orders are obtained.
Federal legislation would help.
Get every bit of Chinese owned land in Missouri back.
Now do Fauci and Gates.
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