Cindy Yang helped Chinese tech stars get $50K photos with Trump. Who paid?

[blondebanshee]

More than a year before her Super Bowl selfie with the president, Li “Cindy” Yang brought two Chinese-born tech executives — an Australia-based cryptocurrency guru known in the industry as “the Martian” and a startup CEO whose firm recently became a jersey sponsor for the Dallas Mavericks — to take formal photos with President Donald Trump.

Both men flashed a thumbs-up for the camera. So did Trump.

It was a big moment — and it came with a big price tag: $50,000 per photo, benefiting the president’s re-election campaign.


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article227941749.html

[getagrip_already]

1. ferners can't contribute to a campaign....

Nor can any individual citizen contribute more than (I think) $5400.

So indeed, where did the money come from?

And clearly, nobody is vetting contributions.

They are all going directly to trump anyway.

[Jose Garcia]

3. Permanent Residents can contribute to political campaigns

[getagrip_already]

4. Chinese businessmen are unlikely to be resident aliens.....

And neither are Chinese massage parlor workers.

But I get your distinction.

[PatSeg]

2. Those two guys do not look

particularly happy to be posing with Trump. Their thumbs are barely "up".