"Woman Who Paid Trump $16 Million Cash for Apartment Has Ties to Chinese Military..."

[shadowmouse]

OK, really, what conflict of interest could his business dealings possibly pose? :P

Woman Who Paid Trump $16 Million Cash for Apartment Has Ties to Chinese Military Intelligence

In late February, Mother Jones broke the news that Donald Trump had sold a $16 million Park Avenue penthouse to a woman named Angela Chen who runs a consulting firm that connects foreign clients with influential people in China. It's a shady transaction—the president, who sets America's policy toward China, getting paid millions in cash by a Chinese power broker—and it looks even shadier now that MoJo has documented Chen's work with, and personal ties to, a Chinese intelligence front group. Here's the gist:

Angela Chen, in addition to her work as a consultant/broker, chairs the United States wing of a nonprofit cultural-exchange group called the China Arts Foundation.
The China Arts Foundation was founded by a woman named Deng Rong. Deng Rong's father, Deng Xiaoping, was a contemporary of Mao's who succeeded him as the leader of China. Deng Rong is also a vice president of an outreach group called the China Association for International Friendly Contacts, or CAIFC, that has co-hosted events with the China Arts Foundation.
The China Association for International Friendly Contacts is widely considered to be a propaganda/intelligence wing of the Chinese army. In fact, individuals in both the Republican National Committee and the State Department have raised concerns about the group's financial overtures to former U.S. officials—the latter under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when Bill Clinton was considering giving a paid speech at an event co-sponsored by the CAIFC and Angela Chen's China Arts Foundation. (He apparently decided not to make the speech.)

So, Donald Trump just took $16 million cash from a woman with close ties to a foreign intelligence group that both Republicans and Democrats have suggested is involved in the inappropriate purchase of U.S. influence.

I hate to add another Trump thread, but this just boggles my mind.

[Venarik]

This looks like it was from an article, could you link the source please?

[shadowmouse]

This looks like it was from an article, could you link the source please?

Apologies, a series of early morning phone messages derailed my train of thought and that went out without a proper source.

For the source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...ence_ties.html

[Super Kami Dende]

"The China Association for International Friendly Contacts is widely considered to be a propaganda/intelligence wing of the Chinese army."

So is it actually or is this just another attempt at starting more controversy. Also last I checked China wasn't really even considered a big bad anymore. Hell in Australia we deal with China a lot, one of our biggest Economic partners.

Also, lol Slate.

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Coming up next week.... 10 people in Trump administration have ties to Chinese intelligence!

[Bushtuckrman]

Wait hol up hol up is le drumpf now a Russian agent working hand to hand with the Chinese government in a plan that has been in motion since 2005 because they knew Trump would be president in 2016??? Somebody get Rachel Maddow onto this I'm sure he will get to the bottom of this nefarious scheme!!1!

[Lumineus]

So because he's the President he's not allowed to sell his own property for legal tender because... reasons?

Snore.

Call me when he rents out the Lincoln Bedroom to Chinese spies like Slick Willy did in the '90s.

[Trollhammer]

Lol Slate...

This just in! Property tycoon sells property!

[shadowmouse]

Also last I checked China wasn't really even considered a big bad anymore.

Please send the Donald the memo for that, he doesn't seem to have heard.

Also, lol Slate.

Swing and a miss there, champ. Lol X means zip all if you don't present contrary facts.

Here, have some more since your Google seems broken:
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/chi...ump-penthouse/
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/sp...nd-the-facade/
http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/hybri...acteristics-2/

[Super Kami Dende]

Please send the Donald the memo for that, he doesn't seem to have heard.



Swing and a miss there, champ. Lol X means zip all if you don't present contrary facts.

Here, have some more since your Google seems broken:
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/chi...ump-penthouse/
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/sp...nd-the-facade/
http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/hybri...acteristics-2/

2 are more than 2 year old stories. Also the reason I said lol slate is because it is a site that constantly gets debunked for having stupid news.

If this was a bigger story that was actually against Trump you don't think it would be plastered over the MSM?

[shadowmouse]

2 are more than 2 year old stories.

Ah, you mean those stories that inconveniently point out that there has been concern about Chinese intelligence ties to the China Association for International Friendly Contacts for years?

If this was a bigger story that was actually against Trump you don't think it would be plastered over the MSM?

Please, I have a hard time taking seriously anyone who still types out lol and uses MSM. It is a sub issue tied to the whole Emoluments Clause problem and that's already an ongoing discussion.

[Berengil]

So because he's the President he's not allowed to sell his own property for legal tender because... reasons?

Snore.

Call me when he rents out the Lincoln Bedroom to Chinese spies like Slick Willy did in the '90s.

Yeah, pretty much. He sold something he owned for an agreed-upon price. /yawn

Non-story

[Elim Garak]

A guide to selling stuff:
1. Check that the buyer is not a foreign spy or have connections to foreign intelligence services or have connections to someone who have connections to foreign intelligence services or...
2. Sell stuff

[Puremallace]

"The China Association for International Friendly Contacts is widely considered to be a propaganda/intelligence wing of the Chinese army."

So is it actually or is this just another attempt at starting more controversy. Also last I checked China wasn't really even considered a big bad anymore. Hell in Australia we deal with China a lot, one of our biggest Economic partners.

Also, lol Slate.

Honestly I can get over the China thing if conservatives would stop being hypocrites. If I remember correctly Hillary Clinton could not be president because over the Clinton Foundation that took money from foreign governments.

I honestly cannot take Republicans seriously anymore.

[Murderdoll]

People really are digging into the bottom of the barrel to find dirt on Trump now arent they?

This would be hilarious if people werent actually buying this nonsense.

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Honestly I can get over the China thing if conservatives would stop being hypocrites. If I remember correctly Hillary Clinton could not be president because over the Clinton Foundation that took money from foreign governments.

I honestly cannot take Republicans seriously anymore.

There is a vast difference between selling a property for profit to someone from happens to live in another country and accepting donations from the Government of another country.

[Vorkreist]

Woa he sold a penthouse for 16 mil. Fuck man thats some insane bribery. Everyone knows penthouses in Manhattan are dirt cheap.

Today's gen-ot spam is some new brand of stupid.

[Elim Garak]

There is a vast difference between selling a property for profit to someone from happens to live in another country and accepting donations from the Government of another country.

No, no, no. All the money is issued by governments, so money from another country comes from its government.

[zenkai]

Apologies, a series of early morning phone messages derailed my train of thought and that went out without a proper source.

For the source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...ence_ties.html

It was posted on a blog, it must be true.

[Super Kami Dende]

Honestly I can get over the China thing if conservatives would stop being hypocrites. If I remember correctly Hillary Clinton could not be president because over the Clinton Foundation that took money from foreign governments.

I honestly cannot take Republicans seriously anymore.

Honestly could you ever? They are Republicans lmao.

[zenkai]

Honestly I can get over the China thing if conservatives would stop being hypocrites. If I remember correctly Hillary Clinton could not be president because over the Clinton Foundation that took money from foreign governments.

I honestly cannot take Republicans seriously anymore.

You believe what was written in some obscure blog

I honestly cannot take YOU seriously anymore.