Meet the Republicans Wanting Trump to Punish China’s Top Officials

Leading the charge…

A small cadre of Republican lawmakers is leading the charge to punish China’s top officials. They want meaningful action and they want it now. Over the years, China’s modern-day tyrants in suits have been responsible for human rights abuses, intellectual property theft and most recently the cover-up of the initial coronavirus outbreak. These despots need to be punished as much as possible by the United States for their ever-growing list of crimes.

Here are three conservatives in this country who’ve taken the latest bold step to hold them accountable: 

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN)

Rep. Jim Banks is a lifelong Indianian who represents the Hoosier State’s 3rd District (anchored around Fort Wayne). Besides using every opportunity to blast Democrats for going after Trump over the hoax du jour — instead of holding China accountable — Banks has teamed up with others to begin the process of punishing Beijing for its deception. In recent weeks, Banks called on Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to bring criminal charges against Beijing through the United Nation’s International Court of Justice.

Now Banks has co-written and signed a letter, along with Texas Reps. Lance Gooden and Dan Crenshaw imploring Secretary of State Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to sanction ten Chinese officials under the Magnitsky Act.

If Pompeo and Mnuchin take said action these officials will have their assets frozen and they will be banned from entering the United States.

Lance Gooden (R-TX)

Rep. Lance Gooden won the 2018 election to represent Texas’s 5th District in the U.S. Congress. The Dallas-area Republican has made headlines in the Lone Star State for going after pro-lockdown officials in its more liberal jurisdictions. Gooden chastised them for being “drunk on power.” He’s also generating earned media by urging sanctions against Chinese officials in conservative lawmakers’ latest salvo against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

But Gooden isn’t merely content to trade verbal barbs with Beijing. Like the other members on this list, he’s thrown his support behind legislation that would let Americans sue China for medical and economic damages inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)

Crenshaw is another up-and-coming lawmaker who’s standing with the old breed of China hawks to hold Beijing accountable and the CCP has taken notice!

Last week, China threatened sanctions against Crenshaw and his fellow Texan Lance Gooden. Apparently, their crusade is getting to them. The Dallas Morning News has further details on Banks, Gooden and Crenshaw’s letter:

“These baffling and damaging decisions harmed Chinese citizens and the rest of the world, encouraged the spread of COVID-19, and hindered governments around the world from crafting an effective pandemic response,” the congressmen wrote.”The result has been tens of thousands [of] unnecessary American deaths and substantial economic damage.”

The letter details several accusations against the officials, including that they intentionally suppressed information during the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, disseminated misinformation on the virus’ origins and allowed the disease to spread rapidly to 30,000 Uighur Muslims when they were forced by the Chinese government to work in factories deemed unsafe for the general population.

The letter names local officials in Wuhan, where the outbreak started, and top officials at the Chinese Health Commission, the Foreign Ministry and the Chinese Communist Party.

President Donald Trump has also expressed interest in demanding financial compensation from China. The administration is reportedly weighing retaliatory measures against China for the pandemic, including waiving its sovereign immunity.

Do you think Pompeo and Mnuchin will be receptive to Banks, Gooden and Crenshaw’s letter? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

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