Donald Trump’s campaign has poured scorn on German-owned insider media outlet POLITICO for suggesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would prefer a second Trump administration to Joe Biden continuing in the White House.
“In Politico’s Nightly newsletter, Catherine Kim makes a harebrained assertion that China would prefer President Trump to return to the White House,” said Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung.
“The same President Trump who made China submit to pro-America trade and tariff regulations, called them out for exporting the Coronavirus that killed millions across the world, and stood tough against Chinese economic aggression throughout his first term,” he continued.
“For a media outlet and its reporter to peddle lies and feature commentary from a ‘China expert’ named Rorry Daniels — who by the way is a Democrat donor — is laughable at best.”
In its newsletter, POLITICO peddled commentary produced by the aforementioned Daniels, director of the Asia Society Policy Institute, and Jacob Stokes — a staffer at the White House when Joe Biden was Vice President.
It was argued that “Trump’s willingness to be seen as a dealmaker” would be exploited by China — but Cheung argued it is the media that China is exploiting, via its chronic Trump Derangement Syndrome.
“The fact is that China has grown stronger under a weak Biden presidency, and our allies are even more in danger as China builds up its economic and military power,” Cheung said.
He added that “Politico’s official media partner in Asia is the South China Morning Post, widely considered to be the mouthpiece of the CCP.”
POLITICO denied this in a statement to Fox, although an article announcing a content partnership with SCMP published in 2018 remains live on the POLITICO website as of the time of publication.
