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McAuliffe Invited Chinese Donor to Fundraiser at Hillary Clinton’s Home
freebeacon ^ | Natalie Johnson May 26, 2016 | Natalie Johnson

Posted on 05/27/2016 1:29:35 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Hillary Clinton met with the Chinese businessman at the center of a federal investigation into Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D.) during a 2013 fundraiser at her Washington, D.C. home, according to a Time report.

Clinton shook hands with Wang Wenliang during the Sept. 30 event. Less than a month later, Wang would donate $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation, ultimately pledging a total of $2 million to the foundation throughout the year.

McAuliffe, who was on the board of the Clinton Global Initiative, invited Wang to the fundraiser three weeks after one of the businessman’s companies, West Legend Corp., contributed $60,000 to his gubernatorial campaign. The company gave a total of $120,000 to McAuliffe’s bid.

Wang’s representative told Time the event at Clinton’s personal residence was one of at least three meetings between McAuliffe and the businessman.

Just days earlier, McAuliffe denied ever encountering Wang. The governor vowed that he “did no deals” with Wang, adding, “I would not know the man if he sat in a chair next to me.”

He later admitted during a radio interview with WTOP that he had met the businessman “once or twice in my life.”

Wang’s representative told Time that the second meeting between McAuliffe and the businessman occurred at the Virginia state capitol after McAuliffe won the governor seat. The two reportedly discussed expanding a soybean export agreement between Wang and the State of Virginia.

Former South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D.) arranged the third meeting between McAuliffe and Wang where they again discussed soybean exports. Wang’s company, Dandong Port Co., gave Hodges $1.5 million in 2012 to lobby Congress.

The FBI and Justice Department have been probing McAuliffe’s campaign fundraising for the past year, CNN reported on Monday. Government officials are investigating whether donations given to his gubernatorial campaign violated campaign finance laws.

The Justice Department refused to elaborate on the probe’s focus.

“As a matter of policy, the department generally neither confirms nor denies whether a matter is under investigation,” Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr told Time.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: china; clinton; hillary; hodges; jimhodges; mcauliffe; msaullife; soshillary
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1 posted on 05/27/2016 1:29:35 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Wang and Sandong get schlonged by Big Mac.


2 posted on 05/27/2016 1:33:06 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: MarvinStinson

McAuliffe — “I would not know the man if he sat in a chair next to me.”

How does that stack up against “He’s just some guy in my neighborhood”?


3 posted on 05/27/2016 1:35:20 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SERKIT

The US and its citizens were schlonged by the Clintons bigtime.


4 posted on 05/27/2016 1:37:16 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Why do I hear the “Jaws” music in the background?


5 posted on 05/27/2016 1:41:44 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: MarvinStinson

Image that. A Clinton holding a Wang. The good ole days must be back again.


6 posted on 05/27/2016 1:44:58 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MarvinStinson

And an hour later Hillary was poor again!


7 posted on 05/27/2016 1:55:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: MarvinStinson; Grampa Dave; Jane Long; RitaOK; ExTexasRedhead; MinuteGal; stephenjohnbanker; ...

Chasing the Dragon: Clinton’s China Policy / By: A. Scott Piraino

President Clinton signed the US China Relations Act of 2000. Rather than ushering in a new era, granting China permanent normal trade status simply ratifies the status quo. China will continue to profit from their exports without the yearly review of embarrassing issues like trade, human rights, or nuclear weapons proliferation. During the Rose Garden signing ceremony Clinton remarked, “In case you all have forgotten, this thing was hard to pass. This was a lot of trouble.”

Clinton’s trouble with China began before his re-election in 1996. To defeat the Republicans, the Democratic party needed a quick infusion of cash to pay for campaign ads. Clinton turned to his Chinese connection, old friends Johnny Chung, John Huang, and Charlie Trie. They headed a shadowy cast of characters that funneled millions of dollars into democratic campaign coffers.

Bill Clinton took contributions he knew came from China, and played another angle as well. US companies wanted to sell China military technology, but the sales were prohibited by law. Economic sanctions for the Tiananmen square massacre and restrictions on technology exports prevented these companies from selling China the armaments they wanted.

In return for campaign contributions, the President shifted regulation of technology exports from the State Department to the free-wheeling Commerce department. The administration also relaxed export controls and allowed corporations to decide if their technology transfers were legal or not. When easing restrictions wasn’t enough, Clinton signed waivers that simply circumvented the law. The President’s waivers allowed the export of machine tools, defense electronics, and even a communications system for the Chinese Air Force.

Bernard Schwartz and Michael Armstrong, the CEOs of Loral and Hughes, each donated over one million dollars to Clinton’s re-election campaign. These companies had an interest in seeing China develop reliable missiles to loft their satellites into orbit. Clinton arranged direct talks between Bernard Schwartz and a Chinese general to improve China’s rocket technology. Michael Armstrong was made head of the Export Advisory Council. Both companies were allowed to upgrade the launching and guidance of China’s missiles.

Clinton even involved the Department of Energy, caretaker of our nuclear weapons, in his fundraising schemes. In 1994 and ‘95 then Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary accompanied Johnny Chung, John Huang, Charlie Trie, and Bernard Schwartz on trade missions to China. Shortly afterward the DOE relaxed security at US weapons labs. Wen Ho Lee, an ethnic Chinese physicist assigned to Los Alamos, illegally transferred data on nuclear warheads to his private computer files.

In June of 1995, the CIA learned that China had stolen the crown jewels of our nuclear arsenal, including the neutron bomb and the W-88 miniaturized warhead. Later that year National Security Advisor Anthony Lake is briefed on the thefts. He is replaced on the Security Council by Sandy Berger, a former lobbyist for the Chinese government. In June of 1996, before Bill Clinton’s re-election, the FBI opens a formal investigation into the theft of US nuclear weapon designs.

Proof of China’s military intentions came in March of 1996, on the eve of Taiwan’s first democratic elections. China used the threat of force to intimidate the island nation into electing a pro-Beijing candidate. Military maneuvers included bombing runs and launching ballistic missiles that impacted within twenty miles of Taiwan. When the US sent an aircraft carrier into the Taiwan Straits, a Chinese general threatened to “rain down nukes upon Los Angeles”.

In 1997, news of the campaign finance scandal reached the press. Clinton claimed he was “appalled” to learn he had received illegal contributions from China. As the Justice Department began investigating, over one hundred suspects fled the country or refused to testify. Despite FBI recommendations and congressional protests, Janet Reno refused to appoint an independent counsel.

Then the press learned that China had stolen nuclear weapon designs from US research labs. The Clinton administration downplayed and even denied reports that any nuclear secrets were stolen, but this scandal was too big to ignore. Congress began a formal investigation by forming the Cox committee. The administration was forced to reveal the extent of China’s nuclear espionage, but they insisted Clinton had no previous knowledge. Sandy Berger even swore under oath that the President was not told about nuclear thefts until 1998, three years after the fact.

The Cox Committee report was released early in 1999. It confirmed that China had stolen the neutron bomb design and the W-88 miniaturized warhead. The W-88 would allow China to field smaller, mobile missiles and carry multiple warheads on larger missiles. In addition, the Cox report proved that US companies illegally transferred “missile design information and know-how”. Chief among the offenders were Loral And Hughes.

In the summer of 1999 the pro-independence leadership of Taiwan called for talks with China on a state-to-state basis. The enraged Chinese demanded Taiwan enter unification talks or face attack. A Communist Party approved newspaper published a plan to conquer Taiwan. It involved using neutron bombs against any Taiwanese resistance and a nuclear standoff with the US.

On October 1st 1999, the fiftieth anniversary of China’s communist takeover, a new missile was paraded through the streets of Beijing. The DF-31 is a modern, mobile nuclear missile capable of hitting targets in the US. The rocket motor and guidance system were made possible by Loral and Hughes. The nuclear warhead is a copy of the W-88, stolen from the US.

As for Wen Ho Lee, he was a suspected Chinese spy for three years before being fired from his job at Los Alamos and arrested. Lee was charged with 59 counts of mishandling nuclear weapons data with intent to injure the United States. Rather than face a trail where nuclear secrets would be admitted as evidence, federal prosecutors accepted a plea bargain. Wen Ho Lee pleaded guilty to one count of mishandling nuclear weapons data and went home, after serving 278 days in jail.

After China’s nuclear espionage, a campaign finance scandal, and two crises over Taiwan, Bill Clinton’s China policy has been venal at best, treasonous at worst. He is responsible for China’s rise as a militant, nuclear armed threat to the United States. China has grown from an agrarian backwater into the world’s third largest economy on Clinton’s watch. While or yearly trade deficits with China have risen to 70 billion dollars a year, they have been the world’s fastest growing economy. China has become a colossus precisely because of our trade deficits.

With their new wealth, China has sought military parity with the United States. They have been aided by President Clinton and corporate America. US companies spent over 100 million dollars lobbying congress to pass the China Relations Act. Most of that money went to buy congressional votes with campaign donations.

A few American stockholders have profited immensely from modernizing China’s armed forces. Still more US companies have built factories in China. These factories and plenty of cheap, docile labor earn huge profits for these investors. Protecting these profits is Clinton’s China policy.

http://www.artistmarket.com/writers/piraino/clintonchina.htm


8 posted on 05/27/2016 1:57:49 PM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLAC? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Wanna bet the FBI finds something on the Clintons while probing Terry Mac?


9 posted on 05/27/2016 2:01:29 PM PDT by umgud
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To: MarvinStinson

Hillary should withdraw.

If not, she should lose to Trump by a landslide.


10 posted on 05/27/2016 2:03:20 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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Clinton Foundation’s China Donor Has History of Influencing US Policy on China
By Joshua Philipp, Epoch Times | March 19, 2015

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at an event in Beijing on May 3, 2012. The Clinton Foundation, allegedly accepted $2 million in 2013 from a business tied to the Chinese regime. (Shannon Stapleton/AFP/GettyImages)

The head of the Chinese business that pledged $2 million to the Clinton Foundation’s endowment in 2013 has a history of trying to influence U.S. policy on China.

The donation came from Rilin Enterprises, found a CBS News investigation. The head of the company is Wang Wenliang, who according to CBS was asked to join the Chinese regime’s National People’s Congress as a delegate in 2013. Rilin Enterprises owns a strategic port on the North Korean border and was among the contractors that built the Chinese Embassy in Washington. CBS notes it is also close to one of the Chinese regime’s main spy agencies, the Ministry of State Security. The Clinton Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The political influence of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation is well known, and CBS News notes that many people donate to the foundation for that reason.

Evidence suggests that Wang may be among the foundation’s donors looking to tap its influence. CBS News cites public records showing Wang’s Rilin Enterprises spent $1.4 million since 2012 lobbying Congress and the State Department when Clinton was still in office.

--SNIP----rest at epochtimes.com

11 posted on 05/27/2016 2:04:23 PM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLAC? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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To: Liz

And at one point everyone thought we’d be turning Japanese.

Missed it by that much.


12 posted on 05/27/2016 2:05:40 PM PDT by Zeneta
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To: MarvinStinson
Wang would donate $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation, ultimately pledging a total of $2 million to the foundation throughout the year.

Let me guess. It's because of all of those excellent speeches she gives, right? I mean, bribery, corruption, extortion, they'd have nothing to do with it, right?

CrookedHillary is crooked. Did I mention crooked? Hillary, that is. Crooked.

13 posted on 05/27/2016 2:13:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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thanks to Bill our stealth technology went to the Chinese then worldwide

thanks to Gore, our superconductors went to the Chinese then worldwide

They are the heroes of the leftists


14 posted on 05/27/2016 2:25:44 PM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: MarvinStinson

A long time Clinton Clan further revealed for his criminality and complicity in same.. No film at 11.

Amazing how the media seems to ignore the stink of the continuing saga of the Clinton Criminal Collusion&Conspiracy, Inc. Corporation.


15 posted on 05/27/2016 2:47:56 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“Image that. A Clinton holding a Wang.”

if it’s Hillary doing the holding it must be fiction


16 posted on 05/27/2016 2:55:40 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (UK out of the EU; UN out of the USA !)
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To: Liz; MarvinStinson; Grampa Dave; Jane Long; RitaOK; ExTexasRedhead; MinuteGal; stephenjohnbanker; ..

Rolls right off her ample back and backside.

MAYBE, just maybe, this time will be different.

We so pray.


17 posted on 05/27/2016 3:17:12 PM PDT by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY because YOU POST HERE!)
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To: Liz
Hey now, GW undid all that illegal stuff he instituted with EOs right? </s>
18 posted on 05/27/2016 3:40:29 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: Liz

A great list of facts on why she should be in JAIL!!!


19 posted on 05/27/2016 3:53:28 PM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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To: EXCH54FE

The author tried to be as specific as he could on that topic (smirk).


20 posted on 05/27/2016 3:56:25 PM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLAC? A liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing can penetrate it.)
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