Are Mitch McConnell and His Wife Financially Tied to Communist China?
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Following the money has always been the surest mode to finding where a politico'south true loyalties prevarication.

Peter Schweizer, a senior correspondent for Breitbart and writer of such exposés as Clinton Cash and Profiles in Abuse, said on Fox News' The Next Revolution that McConnell'south "position on Red china has softened over the years," a alter Schweizer attributed to the growing relationship betwixt the Chinese government and the Chao family's visitor.

"Really, it goes to the fact that Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao, his wife, are financially tied to the Chinese government," Schweizer explained. "And it comes through the shipbuilding company that Elaine Chao's family owns. That human relationship was forged in Dec of 1993 when James Chao, Elaine Chao's father, Elaine Chao, and the new son-in-law, Senator Mitch McConnell, visited Beijing, China, at the invitation of the China land shipbuilding corporation."

"This was a coup to Beijing considering Tiananmen square had happened but iv years before. Very few high officials went there," the author continued. "The upshot of that meeting and the deals that followed is that today the Chinese government finances the construction of the ships for the shipbuilding visitor, they build the ships, they provide the crews for the ship, and they provide the cargo for the ship."

He went on to explain that Beijing could immediately end its dealings with the shipbuilding corporation if it wanted to, which would be bad for McConnell. The Chinese authorities, according to Schweizer, only does business organisation with this corporation because of McConnell's role equally a powerful U.S. Senator.

"So, the Chinese government could pull the plug tomorrow on this business organisation. And the reason they're doing business with them, let's brand it clear, is considering Mitch McConnell is a very powerful figure in Washington, D.C. And the trouble is … that his position on China has softened over the years the closer that this commercial human relationship has become, and he'due south a direct beneficiary of what this business does."

Per Schweizer, this is the "strategy" red china uses around the world. "They seek out political elites and give them commercial deals," he said, adding that the McConnells are "wedded to the Chinese. They don't want to anger the Chinese because they could destroy their families financially."

McConnell will remain Majority Leader until noon on January 20, with the inauguration of Joe Biden. Kamala Harris' ascendance to the vice presidency will requite Democrats (due to the vice president'due south role equally president of the Senate with tie-breaking ability) the voting majority they need to assume control of the chamber.

As The New American has previously reported, McConnell is obviously pleased with the impeachment of President Trump, seeing it as a way to purge the party of him.

Nevertheless, in the boxing for the hearts of Republican voters, Donald Trump remains the unquestioned victor. Polling shows that a solid bulk of the base of operations still supports the president'due south recent beliefs and would similar him to exist the 2024 presidential candidate.

It should exist noted that McConnell'due south married woman, Elaine Chao, was until recently President Trump'south secretarial assistant of transportation. She resigned from the mail in response to the Capitol breach on Jan six.

"Yesterday our country experienced a traumatic and entirely avoidable event as supporters of the President stormed the Capitol post-obit a rally he addressed," wrote Chao in a alphabetic character to colleagues in the Department of Transportation. "Every bit I'thou sure is the case with many of you, it has deeply troubled me in a fashion that I simply cannot set aside."

McConnell has shown himself to be, if annihilation, an astute and cunning politician who knows how to stay at the heart of Washington politics and use the influence of his role for his ain financial benefit, constantly winning over the Republican base with some crumbs here and there but ultimately betraying the people to his masters in the establishment every time it really matters.

If Americans actually desire to be rid of McConnell and swamp rats like him, they must be prepared to presume a greater level of responsibility. The Republican leader won his reelection bid in the GOP primary with over eighty pct of the vote in 2020. Why do voters seem and so determined to continue voting in the snakes who bit them before and will inevitably bite them over again in the future?