The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Istanbul-based Golden Global Bank, accused of moving large sums China paid for Iranian oil and funneling the proceeds to the IRGC.
EXCLUSIVE:
🚨Lobbyist for China-Owned Smithfield Foods Omitted Foreign Ownership On Disclosure Forms While Lobbying Congress On the Farm Bill 🚨
Following a federal complaint, Smithfield’s @SmithfieldFoods lobbyist from Greenberg Traurig LLP @GT_Law has just been forced to disclose that their lobbying in U.S. Congress and the Treasury Dept. @USTreasury benefits the company’s Chinese owner, 万洲国际 (WH Group).
See the before and after lobbying receipts below. 👇🏻
A complaint filed in early August detailed how Smithfield’s firm violated federal lobbying rules in July when it checked “None” on a required disclosure form asking whether any foreign entity had an interest in its second-quarter lobbying for China-owned Smithfield on “animal welfare standards; Farm Bill reauthorization; issues related to foreign ownership of agricultural land.”
Smithfield’s lobbyist has hidden the company’s ties to China for the last 3 years.
But, records show Smithfield is 86.9% owned by China’s 万洲国际, whose leadership is stacked with members of the CCP. The company’s chairman was a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army.
万洲国际-owned Smithfield is the largest pork producer operating in the U.S. and owns 85,000 acres of U.S. farmland.
The Chinese pork company has partnered with Rep. Ashley Hinson @hinsonashley and Sen. Joni Ernst’s @joniernst on legislation called “Save Our Bacon” (it should be called “Save CHINA’S Bacon”) that would overturn voter-approved state laws preventing extreme confinement and abuse of farm animals, prohibit U.S. voters from enacting similar state laws in the future, and continue allowing China to own US farmland.
It should be no surprise that Hinson and Ernst, as members of Congress, have willfully taken and received campaign funding from Smithfield.
Communist China wants to destroy America. It is officially classified as a “foreign adversary” by the Trump Administration. Chinese-owned, CCP-tied Smithfield shouldn’t be allowed to further infiltrate U.S. policymaking and food production by lobbying Congress or donating cash to lawmakers and candidates.
Smithfield’s long-time lobbyist should be prohibited from lobbying Congress. Ashley Hinson and Joni Ernst should give back the campaign cash from this Chinese company (like Rep. Dan Newhouse @RepNewHouse did). Any lawmakers who took campaign contributions from this Chinese company should give them back. I’m sure Smithfield will be happy to take it in dollar or yuan form. I’m not going to stand by while China (which loves the Save Our Bacon Act) and its political allies undermine U.S. democracy and get their way in the Farm Bill. Additionally, any Republican who helps China do this should expect to be aggressively held accountable by me and other real America First conservatives now and in the future.
We won’t forget who sold our country out to Communist China.
@SecScottBessent@ScottforFlorida@MarcoRubio@SenateAgGOP@TomCottonAR
RECEIPTS 👇🏻
It’s fascinating to watch the same public officials who danced on Charlie Kirk’s grave suddenly demand “accountability” because a free Floridian, and private citizen, stated an opinion that hurts their feelings.
@AngieNixon is an actual racist, btw. The worst I’ve ever met.
@MackinacCenter@VanceGinn Make the materials used to building cheaper. Then this state will see a boom. The Northern part of the state needs more factory jobs.
@Osint613 We should still continue to strike them into submission. Any time we don’t strike they will rebuild and learn to be more secretive about what they do. Just my opinion
A Lebanese security source has provided Al-Hadath with new details on a seized smuggling network moving fighters from the Syrian coast into Lebanon.
Three Syrians and two Lebanese have been arrested in connection with the operation. Weapons, bombs and explosives were seized from members of the cell.
The network was run by an officer close to Bashar al-Assad, holding the rank of major general and currently located in Moscow. The cell itself was trained by Hezbollah.
Three of the network's trainers have been identified, and authorities are working to arrest them.
Chinese state shipping giant COSCO hides equipment on its ships to intercept military communications off the coasts of the U.S. and other nations, U.S. officials told Reuters. The firm has held an intelligence partnership with Beijing for decades.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh just ordered the Michigan Board of State Canvassers to respond by noon tomorrow Wednesday September 2 to the Citizen-Only Voting Amendment's emergency injunction request to place this initiative on the November 2026 ballot.
@JohnJamesMI You need to start going to all the towns in Michigan and meeting the people who you want to vote for you if not kiss your ass good bye. You won’t get elected. No one cares if you are backed by Trump.
@Walmart please make sure the delivery drivers wrap packages up in plastic if it’s raining outside. I shouldn’t come home to a delivery and the box is soaked and the product is all wet. If the USPS has to wrap packages in plastic when it rains I expect Walmart to do the same.