The bottom line is money. Yang was using her membership at Mar-a-Lago to bring paying customers on the property and into parties where Trump was present for the very purpose of meeting the president and acquiring influence. Many of her visitors to Mar-a-Lago were from China. They were bringing money to find a way to make American their home for business and otherwise.
This desire for money at any cost is a theme with Trump and his family. It was recently Jared Kushner received a great deal of money from Qatar.
February 11, 2019
By Dmitry Zhdannikov, Herbert Lash and Saeed Azhar
London/New York/Dubai - When news emerged that Qatar (click here) may have unwittingly helped bail out a New York skyscraper owned by the family of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, eyebrows were raised in Doha.
Kushner, a senior White House adviser, was a close ally of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - a key architect of a regional boycott against Qatar, which Riyadh accuses of sponsoring terrorism. Doha denies the charge.
Brookfield, a global property investor in which the Qatari government has placed investments, struck a deal last year that rescued the Kushner Companies’ 666 Fifth Avenue tower in Manhattan from financial straits.
The bailout, in which Doha played no part and first learned about in the media, has prompted a rethink of how the gas-rich kingdom invests money abroad via its giant sovereign wealth fund, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
The country has decided that the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) will aim to avoid putting money in funds or other investment vehicles it does not have full control over, according to the sources, who are familiar with the QIA’s strategy.
“Qatar started looking into how its name got involved into the deal and found out it was because of a fund it co-owned,” said one of the sources. “So QIA ultimately triggered a strategy revamp.”...
This transaction surprised Qatar. This transaction has caused Qatar to revamp it's investing strategy. It is my opinion, the high level security clearance that Kushner received from his father-in-law, Donald J. Trump, was used to conduct research on how to obtain vast amounts of money from COUNTRIES, such as Qatar, without consent of the country's leadership. I believe Kushner is going to attempt to do the same thing in Europe at the meeting where he is a surprise attendee.
None of these scamming activities are USA business. Trump uses his property in Florida to allow access and no one knows the extent to which he peddles his influence on that property. Evidently, there is enough evidence to warrant the issuing of subpoenas. If there are subpoenas issued, that means there are laws in question. This is the property where the president of the USA spends time, supposedly as a relief from his activities as president. Reagan had California, "W" had Texas and the Clintons would vacation in Massachusetts. But, the activities that occur at Mar-a-Lago aren't for rest and relaxation, it is for more "slick" business dealings.
Donald J. Trump always manages to hold law breaking an arm's length away from himself. It was seen with Michael Cohen, a very fine lawyer with a very fine career, then became entangled with the Trump Company and now is paying the price in prison. That is just one person. Paul Manafort is in prison and definitely connected to the Trump campaign. Manafort is known to have passed campaign polling data to a Russian operative.
This entire presidency stinks. It is wall to wall corruption that occurs daily with members of his cabinet, yet he holds those same people at arms length due to an "Ethics" wall he put in place to protect him from being connected to the wrongdoing.
His daughter, Ivanka gave up her business because the patents she obtained in China for her own wealth became too hot to handle. I have no doubt when she gave up her business it and the Chinese patents were sold for a tidy sum. But the way, those patents will not produce products in China that will be sold in the USA. I have to wonder how much of the Chinese profit Ivanka will offshore. And the closing of her New York office was so tearful. I doubt there were crocodile tears from Ivanka.
Again, Kushner with the help of Trump, Jr. wrangled visas from our USA Congress to provide Chinese business people a ride to the USA to invest in properties owned by these families.
The ruse with Ivanka and Jared is that they volunteer at the White House as advisors. I betcha, but, the bottom line again here is money and plenty of it. A salary would raise too many questions.
Wealthy people like money. No doubt. They like to make money and sometimes they borrow money to invest in new opportunities. THAT IS NOT WHAT IS OCCURRING WITH TRUMP, HIS FAMILY, HIS EXTENDED FAMILY AND ASSOCIATES.
The law breaking by this president continues with more and more plans by the family to continue their research of highly classified documents to find more opportunistic loopholes like the one in Qatar. This has to end. I can only imagine the talk around the world of the president's escapades with his family of greed merchants.
By Alison Durkee
Li Yang, 45, (click here) posed with Donald Trump during the Super Bowl while rooting for the Patriots. Two weeks later, authorities would charge the team owner, Robert Kraft, with soliciting prostitution at a spa in Jupiter that Yang had founded.
The Trump(click here) organizations have become embroiled in the saga of the Chinese businesswoman peddling presidential access.
President Donald Trump's campaign and “winter White House” are getting pulled into the ongoing saga of massage parlor entrepreneur Li “Cindy” Yang, the Florida GOP donor who's come under scrutiny for peddling access—and possibly foreign campaign donations—to Trump. Less than two weeks after it was reported that federal prosecutors were investigating Yang for possible campaign finance violations, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday that subpoenas have been issued to Trump's Mar-a-Lago club and Trump Victory, a political action committee raising funds for Trump and the Republican National Committee. Both organizations have been asked to turn over all records related to Yang, along with those of some of her associates and companies, as the federal authorities investigate whether Yang illegally funneled foreign money into Trump's campaign. Neither are said to be targets of the investigation....
