Posted on 11/18/2022 10:04:07 AM PST by bitt
Many of the billionaires lining up against President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign share more in common than exorbitant wealth.
Perhaps it isn’t a surprise that ruling class members with China links are lining up against a populist that says he wants to “launch an all-out campaign to eliminate America’s dependence on China.”
Take the Murdochs, for example. Their New York Post mocked President Trump’s campaign roll-out with the headline: “Florida Man Makes Announcement.”
Perhaps Trump should respond by highlighting a more shocking headline – this one from Crikey in Australia, “Murdoch empire borrows US$100m from state-owned Bank of China.”
The article details how News Corp, the parent of the New York Post and Wall Street Journal, took a 9-figure loan from a Chinese Communist-owned bank.
And that’s just the beginning of it. Perhaps Murdoch’s ex-wife, alleged Chinese Communist spy Wendi Deng, could shed more light on the matter.
Then there’s Ken Griffin. Two days before the midterms, the financier spoke to Politico about how he wants to spend his billions to get Gov. Ron DeSantis in the White House. Keen observers will note Trump’s first salvo against DeSantis came hours before this Politico puff piece which had been in the works for some time. It’s no stretch to connect the dots: Trump heard about the piece. Perhaps he was even asked for comment on the fact that a China-linked billionaire was now one of Ron DeSantis’s largest donors.
Surely, he gave one.
Griffin himself became massively wealthy – an estimated net worth of $22 billion – through his investment firm Citadel. A report this year revealed that in 2006, Citadel “loaned $110 million to China Security & Surveillance Technology. The company used the funds to acquire ‘10 of the 50 biggest surveillance companies in China.’”
Citadel is also partly owned now by Sequoia Capital, which is the venture capital firm that “has produced more investment gains from China” than any other firm and has close ties to the CCP. Sequoia’s China division even employed a daughter of a politburo member.
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This is my shocked face.
OK that's not exactly true, but it's a good first approximation of how things work.
Sad the county’s elite sold out America.
Murdoch and his family have tens of billions of dollars cash due in large part to selling Fox entertainment to Disney. They still own the FoxNews brand and various publications. Not sure this $100 million loan from a Chinese bank ranks that high in dubiousness. I don’t know what other interests he has in China but seems he could do without them if he wanted to.
The ones to worry about are the ones heavily reliant on China. Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos and many others who rely on supply chains or revenue flow from China. Even Elon Musk talks one game in the west and another one in the east. The politicians... well don’t even get me started.
International Corporatist State. Our government is completely on board.
Agreed. There is so much money being thrown around (e.g. Soros and Bankfraud-Fried on the left) that they will support SOMEBODY, so why not Desantis?
Well knock me over with a feather!
Mandatory cell phone carrying and personal QR codes coming soon.
I wonder sometimes how we can fight these people. They have money, influence, and power, in part, thanks to China. Originally, thanks to Americans, but they have no loyalty to our country.
“Their New York Post mocked President Trump’s campaign roll-out with the headline: “Florida Man Makes Announcement.” “
That hole article was pretty funny.
The FTX CEO gave $20 million to Republicans. Our political system is bipartisanly corrupted by big donors.
Muck Furdoch.
Lawyers turned professional politicians lining their own pockets, while giving away hundreds of billions to foreign countries, while American homeless are EVERYWHERE.
Spit*
prayer, my dear. the biggest weapon of all.
he gave it to rino’s that voted to impeach trump
RECEIPTS: Anti-Trump ‘Republican’ Billionaires Deeply Tied to Chinese Communist Finance.Any connection? Of course there is.
Meet the Globalist Billionaires Behind the Presidential Ambitions of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
You’re quite right. Thank you.
and mitch???
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