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Chinese Billionaire’s Network Hyped Hunter Biden Dirt Weeks Before Rudy
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Weeks before the Post published its Hunter Biden report, a YouTube channel linked to Steve Bannon-backer Guo Wengui broadcast conspiracies about “hard disks” full of Biden dirt.
Adam Rawnsley Allison Quinn Justin Baragona Martha Mercer
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Published Oct. 16, 2020
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Guo, too, has been in the Trumpworld orbit pretty much from the beginning, paying the $200,000 initiation fee to become a member of the president’s Florida golf resort Mar-a-Lago, which Trump has dubbed the “Southern White House.” But Guo’s membership soon became a headache for the administration in the run-up to Trump’s first summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2017, due to Guo’s fugitive status in China.
At one point, Trump had reportedly considered deporting Guo after the Chinese government called for his extradition in a letter delivered to Trump by casino mogul Steve Wynn in 2017. After presenting the letter during a policy meeting, the president reportedly said “we need to get this criminal out of the country,” only for aides to remind him that Guo was a Mar-a-Lago member, eventually talking him out of the decision and ensuring the deportation was scuttled. In fact, Guo’s attempts to obtain asylum have been a dividing point among Trump allies for a while.
Bannon, meanwhile, was the president’s chief strategist at the time of Wynn’s letter to Trump. Trump’s fundraiser Elliott Broidy has also been tied to the attempt to help China extradite Guo, and in October, Broidy was charged with violating lobbying laws in connection to that case, in which he allegedly used his political ties to help China’s and Malaysia’s governments.
Bannon’s financial relationship with Guo began shortly after Bannon’s ouster from the White House in August 2017. The two began lunching together in Washington during that fall and by the end of the year, Guo had loaned him $150,000. Eventually, that ballooned to a million-dollar-a-year contract for Bannon to consult for Guo Media. By 2018, the pair began appearing regularly on Guo Media’s G News website.
Before long, Bannon was flying around on Guo’s private plane while the self-proclaimed dissident of the Chinese Communist Party—who has also been accused of being a spy for the CCP—promised to donate $100 million to a Bannon-led charity that would target China. (Guo has vehemently denied any espionage claims against him, though he has acknowledged past ties to officials in Beijing’s security agencies.)
It was Guo’s yacht that Bannon was on when he was arrested by federal agents in August on charges of defrauding donors of a nonprofit group that claimed it was building a private border wall. At the time of his arrest, Bannon had told friends he’d been living on Guo’s boat for months. When he’s not on his boat, the Chinese mogul resides in an opulent $67 million penthouse in Manhattan, where he keeps a gigantic London Bridge statue made out of Legos and where he’s been known to give impromptu fashion shows of his alligator-skin jacket collection. That spectacular penthouse was put into bankruptcy protection this week.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/chinese-billionaires-network-hyped-hunter-biden-dirt-weeks-before-rudy?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning
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