Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) made bold new allegations against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) this week during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, saying that China allowed the coronavirus to spread to other countries around the world.

The two appeared on Fox News’s “Hannity” to discuss a new bill that they introduced to the House and Senate that would allow Americans to file lawsuits against China in federal court “to recover damages for death, injury, and economic harm caused by the Wuhan Virus.”

“To me, the most revealing and dastardly evil thing that the Chinese government did — oh, they saw how bad Wuhan province was, so they cut all travel to and from Wuhan from within China but they let the planes got internationally,” Hannity said. “How nice of them.”

“Exactly. 5 million people left Wuhan,” Crenshaw said. “They allowed this virus to spread. They knew it would spread, they spread false talking points like it won’t spread from human to human contact. They didn’t let scientists in to investigate. They actually disappeared doctors who tried to blow the whistle. The number of deaths and infections they hid.”

Cotton took the allegations one step further when he talked about “the evil intent of Chinese leaders,” saying that they “intentionally” allowed “this virus to get outside their border.”

“You also mentioned the hoarding of personal protection equipment, and trying to profiteer off of it, or even sending Chinese drones to America to collect information and send it back,” Cotton continued. “China has to pay for all of this.”

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