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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCindy Yang helped Chinese tech stars get $50K photos with Trump. Who paid?
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 presidents re-election campaign.
[link:https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article227941749.html|
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Cindy Yang helped Chinese tech stars get $50K photos with Trump. Who paid? (Original Post)
blondebanshee
Mar 2019
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getagrip_already
(14,708 posts)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
(2,593 posts)3. Permanent Residents can contribute to political campaigns
getagrip_already
(14,708 posts)4. Chinese businessmen are unlikely to be resident aliens.....
And neither are Chinese massage parlor workers.
But I get your distinction.
PatSeg
(47,399 posts)2. Those two guys do not look
particularly happy to be posing with Trump. Their thumbs are barely "up".