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April 26, 2019

How a Chinese Communist Party promoter tied to Cindy Yang joined the Trump campaign

Source: The Miami Herald

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Lou is a United States-based promoter for the Chinese Communist Party and former writer for Chinese media, a job he got after graduating from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1994.

He is also an avid Trump supporter.

Last year, the Chinese-born American citizen took his support to a new level. Lou signed a contract with the Republican National Committee to become an official fundraiser for President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign — at the same time Trump was launching a bellicose trade war against Lou’s homeland. Trump recently vowed that communism’s “days are numbered,” excoriating any Democrat who dared espouse any hint of sympathy toward socialism.

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Out of this marriage of supply and demand emerged a tacitly Chinese state-endorsed gray market selling tickets to Trump-related events to Chinese business people. It’s where Lou’s life overlapped with that of Li “Cindy” Yang — founder of a chain of South Florida Asian day spas, whose latest start-up involved selling presidential access over Chinese-language social media.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-a-chinese-communist-party-promoter-tied-to-cindy-yang-joined-the-trump-campaign/ar-BBWfpnh

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