White Scolar Confirms What Everybody Knew: Trump Is Paid By The Chinese
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Donald “Tough on China” Trump Has a Secret Chinese Bank Account
Funny how he never mentions this while claiming Joe Biden would be
beholden to China as president.
By Bess Levin
When he hasn’t been demonizing immigrants, screaming about “Democrat run cities,” or gutting regulations created to combat climate change, Donald
Trump has focused much of the last four years on supposedly fighting China
like no other president has had the guts to. Despite having nothing to
show for this alleged hardline with Beijing—the president’s trade war has
cost U.S. taxpayers, and he praised President Xi Jinping as the
coronavirus spread across the globe—with the 2020 election fast
approaching, Trump has spent months insisting that if Joe Biden wins,
America will be in bed with the authoritarian nation. “Nobody in 50 years
has been WEAKER on China than Sleepy Joe Biden,” he tweeted in May. “China
will own us!!!!” he type-screamed earlier this month. “Joe Biden must immediately release all emails, meetings, phone calls, transcripts, and
records related to his involvement in his family’s business dealings,
influence peddlings around the world—including China,” he shouted at a
rally last week in Iowa, seemingly referring to an exceedingly sketchy
news story allegedly showing financial ties between China and the
Democratic nominee.
Of course, as we know from Biden’s tax returns, which he released in
contrast to Trump, the former vice president doesn’t have any income from
or business dealings with China. But you know who does? The New York Times
has an idea:
...it turns out that China is one of only three foreign nations—the
others are Britain and Ireland—where Mr. Trump maintains a bank account, according to an analysis of the president’s tax records...The foreign
accounts do not show up on Mr. Trump’s public financial disclosures, where
he must list personal assets, because they are held under corporate names.
The identities of the financial institutions are not clear. The Chinese
account is controlled by Trump International Hotels Management LLC, which
the tax records show paid $188,561 in taxes in China while pursuing
licensing deals there from 2013 to 2015.
In 2017, the company reported an unusually large spike in revenue—some $17.5 million, more than the previous five years’ combined. It was
accompanied by a $15.1 million withdrawal by Mr. Trump from the company’s capital account.
In addition to the existence of the Chinese bank account—controlled by a company that just happened to record eight figures’ worth of revenue
during Trump’s first year in office—the Times reports that shortly after
he won the election, Trump sold a penthouse in one of his buildings for
$15.8 million to a Chinese-American businesswoman named Xiao Yan Chen, who “runs an international consulting firm and reportedly has high-level connections to government and political elites in China.”
(In a statement, Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, said
Trump International Hotels Management LLC had “opened an account with a
Chinese bank having offices in the United States in order to pay the local taxes” related to attempts to do business there, adding that “no deals, transactions, or other business activities ever materialized and, since
2015, the office has remained inactive.”)
In related news, earlier this week the Times separately reported an
extremely disturbing story concerning diplomats in China, who in 2018 were seemingly victims of an attack similar to the ones on their colleagues in Havana in 2016 and 2017—both groups experienced sudden headaches, blurred vision, dizziness, and memory loss. But while the administration withdrew embassy staff in Cuba, expelled Cuban diplomats from Washington, said U.S. diplomats had experienced “targeted attacks,” and blamed Cuba for not
keeping the diplomats and their families safe, its approach to what
happened to people in China was suspiciously different:
The administration took a softer approach with China. In May 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was the CIA director during the Cuba events, told lawmakers that the medical details of one American official
who had fallen ill in China were “very similar and entirely consistent”
with the syndrome in Cuba. The administration evacuated more than a dozen federal employees and some of their family members. The State Department
soon retreated, labeling what happened in China as “health incidents.”
While the officers in Cuba were placed on administrative leave for rehabilitation, those in China initially had to use sick days and unpaid
leave, some officers and their lawyers say. And the State Department did
not open an investigation into what happened in China.
Critics say disparities in how the officers were treated stemmed from diplomatic and political considerations, including the president’s desire
to strengthen relations with Russia and win a trade deal with China. China diplomats began reporting strange symptoms in spring 2018, as U.S.
officials stationed there were trying to coax their Chinese counterparts
into a trade deal that Mr. Trump had promised to deliver. The president
was also looking to Beijing for help in clinching nuclear talks with North Korea and consistently lavished praise on Xi Jinping, China’s
authoritarian leader.
So yes, there’s definitely someone running for president who is “WEAK” on China, but it’s not Joe Biden.
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