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- In a new interview, Graham Platner says “there’s nothing out there” about him that is “actually concerning.” Fellow Democrat Ro Khanna days earlier told CBS News: “I want to be clear. [Platner’s] actions were misogynistic. They were shameful. They were wrong. ... He took
00:00 - Replying to @FreeBeacon“China’s always looking for a weak link and I think that they found a weak link in Governor Newsom,” former U.S. ambassador Joseph Cella, the president of Chinese influence watchdog Secure Our States Coalition, told the Free Beacon. “The Department of War has blacklisted BYD
- Replying to @FreeBeacon“The designation raises serious national security questions about BYD’s support for Newsom’s campaign,” Catenacci writes.
- Replying to @FreeBeaconThree years later, his relationship with the company is on a crash course: The Pentagon formally classified BYD as a Chinese military company on Monday, adding it to a list of entities that operate in the U.S. and contribute to Beijing’s strategy to leverage private sector
- Replying to @FreeBeaconNewsom has since cultivated a close relationship with BYD, showering it with state contracts and visiting its Shenzhen headquarters in 2023, where he test drove a BYD car that also floats. “Who needs a car when you can have a car and a boat,” Newsom said.
- Replying to @FreeBeaconKe Li—a Chinese national who serves as BYD’s executive vice president and is reportedly married to the company’s billionaire founder and CEO, Wang Chuanfu, a CCP member and ally of Xi Jinping—gave $20,000 to Newsom’s 2018 gubernatorial campaign and another $30,000 to his 2022
- California governor Gavin Newsom received $50,000 in campaign contributions from a top executive at a Chinese electric vehicle company that Newsom fawned over during his 2023 visit to China. That company, BYD, is now on a Pentagon blacklist due to its ties to the Chinese
00:00 - Replying to @FreeBeacon and @AndrewStilesUSA“We have a general election. That is a very different demographic,” McDonald wrote. “Graham Platner is not someone who would be good for Maine or for the country.”
- Replying to @FreeBeacon and @AndrewStilesUSAPlatner now finds himself in a much tougher fight against Collins, days after his former political director, Genevieve McDonald, wrote in the Washington Post that he “shouldn’t be a U.S. senator.”
- Replying to @FreeBeacon and @AndrewStilesUSA“The grandson of a world-renowned architect, Platner derives most of his income from a military disability pension, lives in a house his dad paid for, and runs an oyster farm—on an island owned by his rich friend—whose principle client is his mom’s restaurant at an ‘old world
