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bongo needs to have that turtle on the cover, too. Working for faux, is he even allowed to mention mcconnell?
How McConnell and Chao used political power to make their family rich March 17, 2018 10:26pm
Peter Schweizer… exposes how politicians engage in “corruption by proxy” by exploiting family and business ties to enrich themselves and their relatives.
Here, The Post’s Larry Getlen details the book’s revelations on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, ex-Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and others:
Rather than risk their careers taking bribes for potentially minuscule rewards, Schweizer points out how today’s politicians are savvier, engaging in what he calls “corruption by proxy.”
While politicians and their spouses are often subject to rigid regulations on what gifts they can accept and what sort of business they can conduct, others around them — like their friends or children have no such obstacles….
“Foreign governments and oligarchs like this form of corruption because it gives them private and unfettered gateways to the corridors of Washington power,” Schweizer writes. “Foreign entities cannot legally make campaign contributions, so using this approach creates an alternative way to curry favor and influence America’s political leaders. Simply camouflaging these transactions as business agreements provides another shield of plausible deniability.” …
Given all this, it’s worth noting how both McConnell and Chao, in their roles as high-ranking US officials, have personally interacted with, and then gone considerably soft on, China since their 1993 wedding…
“As the Chaos and the Chinese government went into business together, the Chaos-McConnells tied their economic fate to the good fortunes of Beijing,” Schweizer writes. “Were McConnell to critique Beijing aggressively or support policies damaging to Chinese interests, Beijing could severely damage the family’s economic fortunes.” …
When she served as Secretary of Labor under George W. Bush, her department resisted efforts to “call out the Chinese government over its workers rights practices.” When a petition was filed against China on the subject of worker’s rights based on the US Trade Act of 1974, Chao opposed it.
After a bipartisan congressional report citing Chinese espionage against the US circulated in 2000, Chao “was critical of the report,” making clear she “in no way” agreed with its findings, and, Schweizer writes, “dismiss[ing] the idea that China could pose any threat to the United States.”
This dishonest double-dealing works on both sides of the political aisle. Schweizer notes the case of Penny Pritzker, US Commerce Secretary during President Obama’s second term, and heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune….
The list of congress members who have had lobbyist children over the years is long and disturbing….
And Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz — son and stepson, respectively, of Joe Biden and John Kerry — created an international private equity firm that formed deals with foreign governments, including an investment fund in a joint venture with the Bank of China, at the same time their fathers were working with those governments on highly sensitive political matters.
https://nypost.com/2018/03/17/how-mcconnell-and-chao-used-political-power-to-make-their-family-rich/ https://archive.is/Pijt4
China: Compromising U.S. Elected Officials by Peter Schweizer
The financial relationship between the McConnell-Chao family and the Chinese government has since only deepened… Under current disclosure laws, which do not apply to adult relatives, neither then-Secretary Chao nor Senator McConnell was required to report their family’s dealings with a major foreign military contractor.
• Closer Chinese financial ties for the benefit of one of America’s most powerful political families also occurred in 2018 amid an aggressive push by Beijing for infrastructure deals around the globe. These deals are part of the strategic “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative, a massive plan to expand China’s influence across Asia and Africa. https://archive.is/wip/xUz0F • https://egretnews.com/index.php/2021/04/15/china-compromising-u-s-elected-officials-by-peter-schweizer/
Vid (3:12): Breaking Down Sen. McConnell’s Conflict of Interest With China https://rumble.com/vc3ov5-breaking-down-sen.-mcconnells-conflict-of-interest-with-china.html