Republicans IGNORE Trump's Chinese Investments While Investigating Other Companies' China Ties

Republicans have created a new select Committee in the House that is preparing to call in businesses including tech giants, Disney, and even the NBA Commissioner to talk about their connections to China and about how we can prevent China from overtaking the US in certain areas. One thing the Committee is apparently NOT going to be looking at are Donald Trump's bank accounts and other financial ties to China that have netted him millions since he took office. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Republican representative Mike Gallagher from the state of Wisconsin has been named the new chair of a select committee that Republicans have already formed to look into businesses, ties with China, and also ask these businesses, how, how can we compete with China? And you better not be working with China because, you know, China's our big enemy right now, according to the Republicans and even some Democrats in Congress. We gotta be terrified of China and everything they're doing. So they've got this new select committee that is going to call in big tech CEOs, ask about, you know, what you're doing to keep China off your platform? They're gonna call in the c e O of Disney. You know, because, just wanna make sure Disney's not colluding with China. And they're also gonna call in the N B A Commissioner because, you know, the N B A, you're getting a little too close to China here.

Basically, we wanna put China on notice that we're, we're onto you. We're gonna figure out what the hell you're doing and you better not be corrupting any of these businesses here in the United States. But, you know, what's missing off that little list of all these groups they're gonna look into with their connections to China, you know, who's missing Donald J. Trump? We recently, of course, got our hands on Donald Trump's tax returns, where we learned that Donald Trump has substantial business investments, and of course, bank accounts in, hang on, China, while he was president of the United States, Donald Trump made millions of dollars from his business investments in China. And that also includes, by the way, the patents that he holds in China. His daughter, Ivanka also holds multiple patents in China, including one for a voting machine. And those patents for both Trump and Ivanka were of course awarded to them after Trump had been sworn in as president.

But Trump ended up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars during his time as president in yearly income taxes in China. Hell, many years he was paying more taxes in China than he was paying here in the United States. So you wanna talk about a business or an individual that is like knee deep in China? Y'all need to be looking at Donald Trump, right? I mean, you say China's the enemy. We, we can't have these American businesses doing business over there. We're gonna call 'em into Congress and ask 'em why they are. Well, you got this guy down here at Mar-a-Lago that's making millions of dollars over there. A guy who up until recently had a treasure trove worth of classified documents stored in his basement. But, but you're just, you're not gonna look at that at all. Like, we're just gonna pretend none of that is happening, even though all of

The, the evidence is overwhelming showing that, hey, this doesn't seem quite right. Why is Ivanka Trump holding a patent for a voting machine in China? Nope. You don't wanna, you don't want to get answers to that. Gotcha. Fully understand because it's one thing to haul in these other CEOs that you know, can, you know, handle the heat and you know you're not gonna do anything to him anyway. It's another to have to haul in your only guy right now running for president and ask him why he of all people is doing so much business in China.