Posted on 05/03/2019 5:38:08 PM PDT by John Semmens
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for Chinese hackers to "get Trump's tax returns" and suggested that "our media would richly reward you." She intended these remarks as a reminder of Trump's jibe during the 2016 campaign asking if the Russians could find the 30,000 emails she deleted and advising them that they would be richly rewarded by the US media.
However, Clinton's joke is not only stale, it runs counter to her repeated claims that Trump's 2016 joke was "proof he colluded with Russia." If her copycat call for Chinese intervention in the 2020 isn't a lame attempt at humor, then by her own previous reasoning it implicates her in a scheme to illegally secure foreign meddling in the next presidential election.
Whether Clinton could credibly pass off her remarks as a joke is dubious, though. The Clinton's have been the recipients of Chinese money in the form of contributions to Bill's 1996 reelection campaign and donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Continuing this tradition, the current front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden, also has had some questionable interactions with the Chinese government. After a 2013 visit to China to discuss trade and technology, Biden's son Hunter's company received a $1.5 billion equity investment from the Chinese government. Coincidentally, Biden now downplays the idea that we have anything to fear from China's theft of technology from US companies or its hostile moves in the South China Sea.
Rival presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), though, criticized Biden's "casual dismissal of the Chinese threat. Their unfair trade practices may enrich their American friends in high places, but they are stealing jobs from American workers. From his words and his deeds it is clear that the American people shouldn't trust Joe Biden to defend their livelihoods if he were to become president."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/260626-2019-05-03-semi-news-semi-satire-may-5-2019-edition.htm
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We seem to have a collective amnesia, even in satire, of the huge role the Chinese played in the W.J. Clinton Presidency, wherein they collected every top secret eyes only military secret WJC could lay his hands on in exchange for campaign cash. The Loral incident was only the shadow of the tip of the ice berg ...
I’m trying to jog memories.
So am I. Don’t you remember those terrible times with Clinton and the Chinese? No one seems to remember - its as if they never happened.
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