Via America’s Lawyer: American businesses want the Chinese government held liable for intentionally misleading the global scientific community about the dangers of Coronavirus, leading to a sweeping recession. Mollye Barrows joins Mike Papantonio to discuss more. Become a member today!:
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
A federal lawsuit has been filed against the Chinese government, alleging that officials intentionally withheld critical information about the coronavirus, which eventually wrecked havoc on America's small business. Mollye Barrows is here to talk to me about it. Obviously this was, this was filed by a very good friend of mine, a lawyer out in Nevada who's an extraordinary trial lawyer.
Robert Eglet.
Robert Eglet, yes, and he's the one that handled the Vegas shooting case that everybody thought was impossible and he recovered...
Won $800 million from Mandalay Bay.
Yeah. So this, this is a real deal.
This is fascinating.
Yeah. First of all, what is the, is the lawsuit just about all businesses or has he narrowed his scope?
Well, he's narrowed it and it's specifically representing five small businesses, flower shops, that sort of thing. But it actually is on behalf of some 32 million small businesses. He says it's going to impact, what happens with these cases will impact small businesses across the country because they've all been impacted by what he says is negligence on the part of Chinese health officials as well as the Chinese government in covering up, not giving enough early warning, basically threatening doctors, threatening people who knew about this virus when it first sprung up, and if they had known they would have been allowed to be a part of the reaction. Perhaps send our own health officials over there and put a stop to it before it ever got out of the country.
Yeah, there are plenty of precedent for this. As you know, I have sued Iran and the banks that washed money for terrorists and in order to do that, I had to bring Iran into the lawsuit. Iran has tons, has billions if not trillions worth of assets in the United States.
Right.
So I'm going to win that case.
I believe that.
I will win that case and same way with China. What I think is most interesting is that he is using the treaties that came out of this globalization. The NAFTA, CAFTA type treaties on trade and he's saying they have a responsibility under trade under these treaties not to do what they've done. What is he saying they did?
Well, basically, you know, if you go back even to some of the original doctors who were first responding, they wanted to put the word out on social media. They were tracked down. They were threatened. They were told not to tell anyone.
They disappeared.
They disappeared.
Yeah.
Yes. I mean, there is just a whole slew of basically heinous allegations that are coming out that are not unsurprising, if you will, considering the crackdown that the Chinese government has on their people in a variety of other areas as well. But he's saying that they, there were cover-ups against journalists, against doctors, against the medical community, that essentially allowed this virus to escape the borders and in fact infect and impact the entire world. And so it's costs small businesses trillions of dollars as a result and it's something that they wouldn't have had to have suffer otherwise. But it's interesting that you talk about how he's suing through that treaty loophole and, you know, so much of the world is changing because of the coronavirus and this is probably going to impact our global relationships as well, whether it's the European union. How do you see that affecting that?
I think globalization is, is dead in the water. Globalization to me and I, this is just my opinion. I mean, everybody has a different opinion on this, obviously. It was a wrong start to begin with. What it was was Bill Clinton was trying to embrace Wall Street.
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