Background Info on the Chinese Billionaire...

[Suburban Warrior]

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who owns the yacht Bannon was a guest on.

He’s a Chinese billionaire and a member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Is he also a communist spy?

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article232973237.html

From the article:

He is currently seeking political asylum in the United States, where he reportedly avoided deportation by the Trump administration after the president learned Guo was a member of Mar-a-Lago.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Who knows where his loyalty lies?

He's obviously gotten his ass out of China...but what about his extended family? If Russia can kompromise Trump, why not China?

[Frustratedlady]

2. My gawd! It just keeps flowing in, one article after another.

Does Trump have ANYONE in his circle that is halfway honest? One crook after another.

[Lonesome Beet]

3. Another article

from January 2018 in the NYT

The Mystery of the Exiled Billionaire Whistle-Blower

Sasha Rudensky for The New York Times

From a penthouse on Central Park, Guo Wengui has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China’s ruling elite — if, that is, he’s telling the truth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-exiled-billionaire-whistleblower.html?searchResultPosition=2

[Ptah]

4. I think you do not understand what the Lounge is for.

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[applegrove]

5. This belongs in GD. Locking