DID CHINA BUY HIS REELECTION FOR HIM, SO HE WOULD TURN AGAINST OUR PRESIDENT TRUMP AND HOW MANY MORE OF OUR POLITICAL LEADERS DO THEY CONTROL, MONEY TALKS AND BULLSH*T WALKS
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Mitch McConnell Rejects Trump’s Claims of a Stolen Election at Joint Session of Congress
“President Trump claims the election was stolen. The assertions range from specific local allegations to constitutional arguments, to sweeping conspiracy theories. I supported the president’s right to use the legal system. […] But over and over, the courts rejected these claims, including all-star judges whom the president himself has nominated,” McConnell said.
“Every election, we know, features some illegality and irregularity. And of course, that’s unacceptable. I support strong state-led voting reforms. Last year’s bizarre pandemic procedures must not become the new norm. But nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale that would’ve tipped the entire election. Nor can public doubt alone justify a radical break when the doubt itself was incited without any evidence.”
McConnell further stated that the Constitution only gives Congress a “limited role” in the election proceedings and that it is not a “national board of elections on steroids.”
“This election was not unusually close,” said McConnell. He also claimed that our political system would begin to collapse, would enter a “death spiral,” if Congress were to hand the election to Trump over “mere allegations.”
McConnell rounded out the speech by comparing the Democrats’ four-year attack on American institutions after Trump’s victory to what Trump is doing now.
“We must not imitate and escalate what we repudiate,” he said.
McConnell’s last line was as follows: “I will vote to respect the people’s decision and defend our system of government as we know it.”
Mitch McConnell's wife Elaine Chao
New York Times: Elaine Chao has deep business ties to China at time of US-Chinese competition
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s family has deep business ties to China – placing the key Cabinet official in a potentially conflicting position with the Trump administration’s confrontational posture toward the US’ major economic rival, according to a report from The New York Times.
The Times investigation outlined Chao’s ties to the Foremost Group, her family’s shipping business. The report noted that while Chao “has no formal affiliation or stake” in the company, she and her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have received millions in gifts from Chao’s father, who used to run the company, along with political donations from her family.
Chao, according to the report, has boosted the company in China, whose government runs a bank that has loan commitments from the shipping company in the order of “hundreds of millions of dollars.”
The report said in addition to the shipping company, Chao’s family has other ties to official China, including board positions in-state companies and a close relationship between Chao’s father and former Chinese President and Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin.
The Times said Chao declined an interview and that the Transportation Department provided a statement from her defending herself and her family.
“My family are patriotic Americans who have led purpose-driven lives and contributed much to this country,” Chao’s written statement read. “They embody the American dream, and my parents inspired all their daughters to give back to this country we love.”
Likewise, a Transportation Department spokesman said the report wove “together with a web of innuendos and baseless inferences.”
McConnell said in a statement that he was “proud to have had the support of my family over the years.”
Chao’s sister Angela, who runs Foremost, told the Times that the company does not have a “China focus” and said, “We are an international shipping company, and I’m an American.”
“I don’t think that, if I didn’t have a Chinese face, there would be any of this focus on China,” Angela Chao told the Times.
The Times report said Foremost’s “fleet is overwhelmingly focused on China.”
Chao was previously the Labor secretary during the Bush administration, and from the outset of the Trump administration, she has been the head of the Transportation Department, which, as the Times noted, makes Chao the top official overseeing the US shipping industry.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)
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