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Ken Paxton: “We took on the opioid manufacturer, we sued the…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Pfizer for lying about the vaccine. Yes, they did lie to you about the vaccine. It was not effective. And then they tried to censor people for telling the truth. We took on the opioid manufacturer, we sued the distributors. Ultimately got a 3.2 billion overall from that. So we brought in over the last my term, almost over $10 billion of revenue to the state. So we're now a profit center which the legislature lost because I just keep bringing the money. (17:11–17:20)

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Asserts that Texas sued opioid manufacturers and distributors, recovering 3.2 billion overall.

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