China doesn’t just own Donald Trump. It’s selling off pieces of him.
This week we saw Donald Trump make the bizarre announcement out of nowhere that he was going to work with the government of China to save a defunct and notoriously corrupt Chinese cellphone company called ZTE. Then we learned that the Chinese government just sank $500 million into Trump’s latest real estate project in Indonesia, making clear that this was a bribe. Now we’re learning that China doesn’t just own Trump, it’s selling access to him.
A state-owned bank in China just got caught trying to sell tickets to an upcoming dinner with Donald Trump for a whopping $150,000 apiece, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Trump and his handlers are claiming they had no hand in this, and that they were the ones who reported it to the Feds when they found out. But given the track record of Trump and his people when it comes to lying, there is no reason to believe anything they say.
Moreover, given this week’s revelations about just how thoroughly the government of China owns Donald Trump, there is every reason to suspect that Trump and his people were in on it. However, the bigger upshot here is that China feels so confident in its ownership of Trump, and of Trump’s complicity in that ownership, its largest entities clearly have no hesitation about going ahead and selling off pieces of him to the highest bidder.
The Trump-Russia dossier tried to warn us that, even though the government of Russia has been blackmailing and controlling Donald Trump politically all along, Trump is a financial puppet of China. With each passing day, we see more evidence of just how thoroughly this is the case. It appears Trump and China are trying to hurry up and cash in before Trump is inevitably impeached and imprisoned.
