Kentucky’s Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced Monday he has joined an 18-state coalition calling on Congress to investigate the communist Chinese government’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. The effort is being led by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who sent a letter Friday to the leadership of the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committees and members of House and Senate leadership asking for a Congressional investigation.
In Attorney General Wilson’s letter, he stated that 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.” He goes on to say “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.”
According to Cameron, the current COVID-19 death toll in the United States is over 80,000 and the pandemic’s economic devastation has caused the unemployment rate to skyrocket from 3.5 percent in February to its current rate of 14.7 percent. Cameron says the Chinese government’s mishandling and deliberate deception has caused hardship for millions of Americans.
In addition to South Carolina, Attorney General Cameron joined attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia in signing in the letter.
You can read the letter to Congress here.
