Louisiana Joins 18 States in Asking Congress to
Investigate China’s Role in Pandemic
BATON ROUGE, LA – Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has
joined an 18-state effort calling on Congress to investigate the communist
Chinese government’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a letter to the U.S. House and Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and other Congressional leaders, General Landry and his colleagues
highlight the havoc COVID-19 has wreaked on their states.
“More than 30,000 Louisianans have contracted the
Coronavirus, and over 2000 have lost their lives,” said General Landry. “Additionally: a countless number of our State’s employers, employees, and their
families have been economically devastated.”
“Recent reports suggest that the communist Chinese
government willfully and knowingly concealed information about the severity of
the virus while simultaneously stockpiling personal protective equipment,”
wrote General Landry and his colleagues. “In what Secretary of State Pompeo has
described as a ‘classic communist disinformation effort,’ the Chinese
government, aided by the World Health Organization, appears to have
intentionally misled the world over the last six months.”
As chief legal officers of their respective states, General
Landry and his fellow members of this Attorney General coalition want to hold
China accountable for its actions. They are asking for Congressional Hearings
to help better understand the origins of COVID-19 and efforts by the communist
Chinese government to deceive the international community.
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A copy of the letter from the Attorney Generals of Louisiana,
South Carolina, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas,
and West Virginia may be found below.