Long time Democratic power broker Tony Podesta has earned $1 million over the past half year lobbying the Biden White House at the behest of a blacklisted Chinese tech giant, recent federal disclosures show.
Huawei, which was placed under trade sanctions during the Trump administration, paid Podesta $500,000 in the fourth quarter of 2021 in an attempt to shake off the trade impact of the restrictions, according to the disclosure form filed on the evening of Jan. 20. With the $500,000 Podesta made from the previous three months lobbying the White House, he has been compensated $1 million over a six-month period for the lobbying effort.
Podesta’s latest lobbying campaign targeted the Executive Office of the President and centered around “telecommunications services and impacted trade issues,” the disclosure said.
Huawei, once the world’s largest telecom makers, has been facing international scrutiny in recent years. U.S. authorities have flagged the China-based company as a national security threat, saying the company’s close ties with China’s ruling communist regime, as well as Chinese law, could make it a potential espionage tool for Beijing.
A stream of U.S. sanctions since 2019—which have barred Huawei from using U.S. technology and software, and shut out its gears from critical U.S. infrastructure—have slashed the company’s annual revenue by a third. In November, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that further tightened restrictions on Huawei by restricting it from receiving new equipment licenses from U.S regulators.
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Lobbying is why America is sold out to foreign interest. It’s why nothing is made in America. The politicians such as Bill Clinton and Biden sold us out decades ago. Now Biden and his clan want to finish the job. It should be illegal to lobby against American interest and businesses that will harm this nation. Those that do should be considered traitors.
Yep, Short rope and tall tree. Right after we give them a fair 5 minute trial.
Agreed
Why 5 minutes? One will be plenty then start the hanging!
Yep COLLUSION if I ever saw it.
That is colluding with the enemy
How can Democrats Collude with the enemy when THEY THEMSELVES ARE the enemy of a free people?!
Seriously? I actually have to spell out the enemy within is colluding with the enemy outside?
Has one, who sold out to the enemy outside, been considered anything but the enemy? He is even worst, because enemy is the enemy for they want harm to come to us, they are not one of us. But one on the inside who joins the enemy is a traitor, undermining us, that is far worst of a crime when one of your own sells out, then to be a foreign enemy.