BUSTED: Commerce Secretary was on board of Chinese joint venture — while running Trump’s trade war

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  1. Phyxius

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    BUSTED: Commerce Secretary was on board of Chinese joint venture — while running Trump’s trade war

    But... but... HUNTER'S LAPTOP!!! [​IMG]

    Gotta wear hip-waders to trudge through the hypocrisy of Donnie Dipshit's swamp... [​IMG]

     
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    I wonder if anybody in Trump's current cabinet will be out of prison one year from today?
     
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    lemmiwinx Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So serving on the board of a Chinese company is traitorous now. When did this start since Trump became president?
     
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    Wilbur Ross has legal problems waaay more serious than serving on the board of a Chinese company.

    But Trump is likely to pardon them all.
     
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    lemmiwinx Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    As if China doesn't own 95% of the swamp rats out there.
     
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    Golem Well-Known Member Donor

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    Please don't refer to the family of the President of the United States as "swamp rats". It's disrespectful. Mafia Family is ok. But "swamp rats" is a bit too much.
     
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    lemmiwinx Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    ^ I'll have to get back to you after China and Russia give the New York Times their marching orders for the day.
     
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    It's Chinese propaganda. Why is the Democrat party using communist propaganda to influence our election? Clearly that have something on Biden that they're going to use against him when he's President. He's already involved in the a business deal with China while he was Vice President.

    And is this guy even running for President?

    Fake News.
     
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    This is obviously Russian disinformation.
     
  10. Lesh

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    The SWAMP...is the White House

    Remember that old horror movie

    "The calls are coming from IN the (White) House"
     
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    The Democrats are desperate with this latest smear. How can we not trust the Chinese? It's not like they have a vested stake in Biden, and a business deal.
     
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    What we have is Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilber Ross on the Board of Directors of a Chinese company in the middle of a trade war with China.

    Is that not accurate?
     
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    Do WH officials have to disclose to the President their lists of investments?

    I mean it would prolly be a good idea if we implimented that. But I bet they don't.

    You'd think the folks calling Trump 'dumb' all day wouldn't simultaneously be expecting him to be omniscient when it comes to everyone that works in his administration.
     
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    Nope, Ross resigned from WL Ross & Co on Feb 27, 2017, a month before he was commerce Secretary.
     
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    From the original Foreign Policy article...

    The letter that Ross provided to Foreign Policy is dated Feb. 27, 2017, marked “Confidential,” and has as its subject line “Re: Resignation from WLR Entities.” In the letter, addressed to WL Ross & Co., Ross writes that he “shall be deemed to have retired, resigned or withdrawn” from every entity affiliated with WL Ross & Co. Ross lists dozens of companies that he claims the letter applies to, including those affiliated with Huaneng. Foreign Policy say that under Chinese law, writing a private letter to a U.S. parent company does not remove one from Chinese corporate boards."

    But Chinese corporate law experts consulted by Foreign Policy say that under Chinese law, writing a private letter to a U.S. parent company does not remove one from Chinese corporate boards. (Invesco, which owns WL Ross & Co., declined to comment for this story.) “The failure to withdraw from the board may have just been an inadvertent slip, but what you said is clearly not a ‘false narrative,’” said Fred Rocafort, an attorney at the international law firm Harris Bricken. “Chinese corporate records establish, without a doubt, that he was officially on the board until February 1, 2019.”
     
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    The buck stops where? Trump loves taking credit for all the good but zero responsibility for the bad. I tell ya, being President is the easiest job ever!
     
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    it is quite arguable that the Comerce Secretary Ross, appointed by President Trump HIMSELF, is the GENERAL of Trump's Trade War with China!

    Well, no.

    But Trump PERSONALLY hired him, this top cabinet official who should be personally meeting with President Trump many days, and in a TRADE WAR, the Commerce Secretary should be deep in these trenches with orders from Trump and advice TO Trump to best make the best out of this "war"!

    Its not like Ross is a "coffee boy", unlike so many other Trump officials!
     
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    Raw Story is not a source. Clicking on that link is for the Left Cult.

    If you have a real source come back and I will call for the firing of such a person.... IF it was true. It is 99% not true with that source.
     
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    See post #16 for original article cited by RS.

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    The difference is that this is FACT and that other nonsense is fantasy
     
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    nah man the fbi is investigating the bidens that’s a fact

    the difference is what they did is a criminal probe and this isn’t
     
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    Actually it's not...but you'll keep saying it.

    They are looking at a laptop that MAY have something to do with Hunter Biden...and is just as likely to have "something " to do with Rudy Ghouliani.

    Do you have an FBI statement stating WHICH is the target?

    No?

    Oh...
     
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    The fact that you're chasing this fantasy points out your desperation.

    Pathetic
     

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