The author of “Red-Handed How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” told The Star News Network that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and her investor husband Richard C. Blum, have financially benefited from their ties to senior leaders in the Chinese Communist Party.
“Dianne Feinstein’s ties to Chinese Communist Party officials goes way back to when she was the mayor of San Francisco in the late 1970s,” said investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, the host of “The Drill Down” podcast and the founder and president of The Government Accountability Institute.
“As mayor, she established a sister city relationship with the city of Shanghai, which was run at the time by Jiang Zemin, who would later become the premier of China,” Schweizer said. “After one of their first meetings, they actually danced together.”
Another twist in Feinstein’s dealings with Red China is the case of Russell Lowe, who for 20 years was a driver for the senator and a staffer in her California offices, he said.
“Allegedly, and I guess he was in some sense the driver for Dianne Feinstein’s office, he was also identified by the FBI as someone who was collecting intelligence and spying on Dianne Feinstein,” he said.
While Feinstein opposed legislation that would sanction China for human rights violations and speak out in defense of the Chinese system of governance, Blum joined investment ventures with the Chinese worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Schweizer said.
One example is Blum’s investment in Legend Computer, which is now called Lenovo, he said.
After Blum invested in the computer company, he said it received a contract to supply laptops to the U.S. military.
“It’s discovered that these computers have bugs on them,” the author said.
“The United States Marine Corps finds this out, so while Dianne Feinstein is the chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, her husband co-owns a business with Chinese officials that is caught putting bugs on computers sent to the U.S. military.”
Blum now serves on President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s Global Development Council.
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Neil W. McCabe is the national political editor of The Star News Network. Send him news tips: [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @neilwmccabe2.
