Sen Eric Schmitt says he ‘won’t be apologizing’ as China hits him with $50B lawsuit

Sen Eric Schmitt R-Mo noted Tuesday that he won't be apologizing to China any time soon as he opened up about a billion lawsuit filed against him in retaliation for suing the country during his time as Missouri s attorney general It's totally ridiculous They're just mad that we exposed their lies and their deceit he narrated The Ingraham Angle Missouri got a billion judgment against them and they don't like that Schmitt continued They unleashed COVID on the world We sued them and we won CHINA S SURROUNDINGS LAWFARE SHOULD COME UNDER BONDI S MICROSCOPE KANSAS AG SAYSThe People s Establishment of Wuhan Municipality the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are suing Schmitt for roughly billion years after he sued China during the COVID- pandemic The lawsuit first obtained by Fox News Digital accused Schmitt FBI co-deputy director Andrew Bailey and the state of Missouri of damaging the reputations of China Wuhan and the associated research facilities through malicious vexatious litigation fabricating enormous disinformation and spreading stigmatizing and discriminating slanders TRUMP'S SENATE CLOSER REPUBLICAN FRESHMAN EMERGES AS KEY WHITE HOUSE ALLYSchmitt blasted the matter as sour grapes while explaining that his club is working on translating the legal papers served to him I won't be apologizing any time soon as you'd imagine he explained Schmitt sued the People's Republic of China PRC several Chinese ruling body ministries the Communist Party of China the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in early while serving as Missouri's attorney general At the time he accused the Chinese executive of withholding information on COVID- and failing to contain the outbreak among other grievances Fox News' Alex Miller contributed to this description