GOP lawmaker's husband 'discussed campaign strategies' with Chinese nationals in 2017

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By Matt Cohen -December 13, 2021 4:53 PM

Rep. Michelle Steel is calling for companies to boycott the Beijing Olympics, but she's not talking about her own family's dubious ties to China.

On Dec. 6, Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) sent a letter to the chief executive officers of Coca-Cola, Nike, Airbnb, and more than a dozen other major corporate sponsors of the 2022 Winter Olympics — which are set to kick off in February in Beijing — pressuring them to use their advertising platform to shine a light on the Chinese Communist Party's alleged human rights abuses.

In the letter, Steel said asked the corporate sponsors "on behalf of democracy and freedom around the world" to condemn "the ongoing human rights violations and abuses currently happening across China at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party." She then listed some of the alleged abuses committed by China's Communist Party, including "forced sterilizations, labor camps and murder... against Uyghur and other Muslim minorities."

Steel is hardly the first politician to take a stance against China ahead of the Winter Olympics. Last week, President Joe Biden said the United States is planning a "diplomatic boycott" of the Olympics, meaning that it won't be sending any officials to attend the games, though athletes representing the United States will still participate.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/michelle-steel-husband-discussed-campaign-strategies-chinese-foreign-nationals-donald-trump/

Hey Justice John Roberts hows that Citizens United thing going for this country.....did you by some strange chance read this article, bet not...after all it doesn't matter who gives the money its still only about free speech right....

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1. And here's some juicy details

But while Steel's letter calls on U.S.-based corporate sponsors of the games to follow the president's lead and use their platforms to make a moral statement, the letter neglects to mention her family's own dubious ties to China. Most prominently, that her husband, Shawn Steel, a Republican National Committee member from California and a donor to the congresswoman's 2020 campaign —allegedly acted as a liaison between four Chinese foreign nationals and GOP leaders.

According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, in May of 2017, Shawn Steel brought three Chinese nationals as his guests to an invite-only gathering "where GOP leaders discussed campaign strategies and other issues."

Federal election rules strictly prohibit foreign nationals from participation "in decisions involving election-related activities."


Among Steel's guests at the May 2017 event was David Tian Wang, a right-wing political organizer who founded the group Chinese Americans for Trump and, according to the Journal report, "had long associations with people and groups in California supported by China's government."

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2. AS I was reading that again, my question is why hasn't he been brought in for

questioning....if you break the law you break the law.....and yet again someone should be asking good old Johnnie Roberts, when he is at some ask a question BS what he thinks, because he basically laid the groundwork for this stuff...curing favors with foreign nationals makes you susceptible to blackmail....but old Jonnie and his gang didn't really take a hard look at that juncture, they just passed it off...