Yang, the woman who integrates the sordid world of influences around Trump – 16/03/2019

Even if you're an avid reader of information, it's hard to follow the thread of Trump scandals. The peculiar innovation of the president in government is to commit such extravagant irregularities and such a galactic extension that trying to understand everything at the same time is testing the limits of the human spirit . Revelations that would be scandalous in the world we lived in a few years ago – for example, the news that the President disavowed his staff and insisted that security clearances be granted to his daughter, fashion designer and son-in-law, occupies now half of the news cycle.

However, it is worth trying to arm yourself with what may remain of our previous sensibility to Trump and stop thinking about the monumental sordidness of Li Yang's evolving history, also known as the name of Cindy Yang.

Yang, if you have not heard of her yet, is a Florida businesswoman whose family owns a chain of mbadage parlors that, like her family, is one of the most popular mbadage parlors. said the Miami Herald, "has earned a reputation for offering badual services". Last month, Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots and a close friend and Trump donor, was charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution services at a spa founded by Yang, Orchids of Asia. (She would have sold him approximately in 2013, but online reviews say that it was previously a place where you were paying for bad.) Kraft pleaded not guilty. Authorities said that Orchids of Asia was part of a major bad business venture.

On Friday, the Herald announced that Mr. Yang had attended a Super Bowl party at Trump's Country Club in West Palm Beach, where the president had cheered on the Kraft team. It turns out that Yang was a frequent visitor to MAGA-land and posed for selfies with Trump, his adult children, Kellyanne Conway and others. According to The Herald, Yang and his family donated $ 42,000 to a pro-Trump political action committee and more than $ 16,000 to the Trump campaign. Last February, she was invited to the White House for an event organized by the Trump Asian-American Peace Initiative, an advisory commission.

However, there is nothing new for donors to pay for photographic operations. But Yang was more than obsequious. Both Mother Jones and The Herald magazines found evidence that Yang, who emigrated from China, ran a company, GY US Investments, which sold Chinese executives access to Trump, his family, and Republican authorities. According to Mother Jones, Yang would have been invited to invite his guests to the New Year party at the Trump Beach Resort in Mar-L-Lago. The Herald announced that Yang had arranged the participation of a group of Chinese businessmen at a Trump fundraiser in 2017 in Manhattan for which the tickets, including the purchase n & # 39; 39, is not legal for foreigners, started at $ 2,700. Yang's Chinese website, which has apparently been turned off, said she was organizing a conference in Mar-a-Lago this month. Trump's sister was a speaker.

The news that the owner of a chain of questionable mbadage houses would have allowed strangers to contact the US president should be taken very seriously. It could be a bad scandal, intelligence intelligence and a financial scandal, all at the same time. "This type of relationship has profound implications for national security," said Jeffrey Prescott, senior director of the National Security Council under the Barack Obama administration. "This has to do with the obvious opportunities for governments and foreign interests to try to influence this president because of the way he has organized his business practices."

Mother Jones said that Yang is one of the local branch leaders of two groups related to the Chinese government: the Council for Promoting the Peaceful Reunification of China and the China Association for Science and Technology . It is difficult to know how to interpret these relationships. Chris Lu, former Undersecretary of Labor and co-chair of the White House initiative for Americans of Asian descent during the Obama administration, warned that dual loyalty should not be attributed to Yang.

However, it is clear that Trump has a club where all kinds of characters can buy access to him. Lu said that when he was a White House official, his rule was "anyone who investigates contact with the president or is in the same room as this." Who investigates the people who go to Mar -a-Lago? "As Prescott points out, when Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Mar-a-Lago in 2017, a member of the club took pictures while both were speaking. launch of a North Korean missile. "If anyone is interested in information on how the president manages public affairs when he is in the club, there are a number of ways to access," Prescott said.

It goes beyond Mar-a-Lago. On Friday, the Guardian reported that foreign citizens were using ghost companies to donate to the Trump Care Committee. Sam Patten, a lobbyist, pleaded guilty to illegally helping a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch buy tickets for $ 50,000. Under the Trump government, the US leadership and its secrets are for sale. It may be for this reason that news concerning Yang has not rocked the earth. In what makes Trump's clubs, she seems to be a perfect fit.