As you know we have posted here and here on this story that doesn’t add up. Here’s the skinny, on Feb. 12, 50-year-old Angela Chao, Mitch McConnell’s rich and well-placed sister-in-law, was found dead in her Tesla submerged in a pond on private property owned by her family’s company in Blanco County, Texas, according to the incident report from fire department EMS personnel.
Ms. Chao was the sixth and youngest daughter of Chinese-American shipping magnate Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao, who founded the New York-headquartered Foremost Group in 1964. Angela had been CEO of the company since 2018 and was a founding member of The Asian American Foundation.
Police are treating the death as suspicious. Could it somehow be related to Angela’s sister and brother-in-law? Or to their links with the Chinese Communist Party?
Mitch and the Chinese
Mitch McConnell will step down in November as the longest-serving party leader in the U.S. Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 1985 and rose to Republican minority leader in 2007 and later majority leader in 2015 before reverting to minority leader in 2021. He married his second wife, Elaine Chao, in February 1993. Together, they became an influential political power couple in Washington, with Ms. Chao having served as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 2001–2009 and Secretary of Transportation from 2017–2021.
In his 2018 book “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” investigative journalist Peter Schweizer noted that Mr. McConnell held hardline positions on communist China up until his marriage to Ms. Chao.
However, just a year after their marriage, in 1994, he was invited by China State Shipbuilding Corporation to meet then-Party leader Jiang Zemin and Vice Premier Li Lanqing as arranged by Ms. Chao’s billionaire father, James.
Schweizer claimed in his book that Mr. McConnell “would increasingly avoid public criticism of China” as more meetings and visits occurred over the years. It’s possible that this shift was facilitated by a multi-million-dollar “gift” from James Chao to Mitch and Elaine in 2008, which increased Mr. McConnell’s net worth ten-fold.
Other McConnell gifts to China over the years included the following, as documented by Mr. Schweizer:
He defended communist China in its actions against Hong Kong and Taiwan.
He claimed that “the United States needed to be ‘ambiguous’ as to whether we would come to the defense of Taiwan if attacked by China.”
When needed to continue China’s most-favored-nation status with the United States, he cosponsored S.2277, which removed the requirement that China had to demonstrate progress on human rights after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
Ms. Chao, for her part while Secretary of Labor, opposed a petition filed against China on the subject of workers’ rights based on the U.S. Trade Act of 1974 while also criticizing a bipartisan congressional report citing Chinese espionage against the United States.
A moderate Republican, Mr. McConnell clashed with populist President Donald Trump on various policy issues, including China tariffs and closing the border, to the point of threatening the president with impeachment if he pardoned Julian Assange in the final hours of his presidency, as reported by Tucker Carlson.
Much more here at Epoch Times.