Top intelligence official says Chinese ZTE cellphones pose security risk to U.S. President Trump wants to help the Chinese firm, but a top intel official told the Senate that ZTE cellphones may be used by the Chinese government to spy. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...ese-zte-cellphones-pose-security-risk-n874276
White House can’t explain how Chinese financing of Trump-linked project doesn’t violate Constitution https://thinkprogress.org/white-hou...mp-project-violate-constitution-76456a21225a/
How highs the water Pa? Three feet high and rising. Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
IS CHINA STRAIGHT-UP BRIBING DONALD TRUMP? The president suddenly softens on a Chinese business after Beijing bankrolls a Trump Organization project. When Donald Trump announced on Sunday night that he was riding to the rescue of Chinese electronics maker ZTE, more than a few people, including those who work for him, were shocked. For one thing, Trump has long-claimed that China “is raping us” through unfair trade practices, and stealing American jobs. For another, the U.S. and Beijing are currently locked in tense negotiations to avoid a protracted trade war, thanks to the president’s decision to slap Chinese imports with a vast array of tariffs. For yet another, just a month prior, Trump’s own Commerce Department had banned shipments of American technology to ZTE for seven years, saying that the company violated American sanctions against countries including Iran and North Korea and lied about punishing employees for doing so. As a result, ZTE halted major operating activities—an outcome you’d have expected to please the president, considering he’d just imposed aluminum and steel tariffs on “national security” grounds, and ZTE was threatening national security. So it was a bit odd to see Trump pull a complete 180, suddenly insisting that the company and its 75,000 Chinese jobs must be saved, though to be fair, tweeting “Look, China just pumped $500 million into a Trump Organization project so I had to do them a solid” might not have gone over so well. Oh, that’s right—according to multiple news outlets, the president’s total about-face on China came just 72 hours after the developer of a theme park outside Jakarta, known as MNC Lido City, with whom the Trump Organization has an agreement to license its name, signed a deal to receive $500 million in Chinese government loans, in addition to another $500 million from government banks. According to Agence France-Presse, the Trump Organization will rake in almost $3.7 million in licensing and consulting payments from Lido, along with another project in Bali. The company will also earn management fees, and be “eligible for additional unspecified incentives.” (Upon entering the White House, Trump turned over day-to-day management of the family business to his sons Donny Jr. and Eric, but chose not to divest himself financially from the company.) https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/is-china-straight-up-bribing-donald-trump-zte
As usual, President Trump is 5 steps ahead of everybody else. Each of his International Trump Hotels is actually a secret spy base for American Intelligence.
