With increased attention on how U.S. politicians are purchased by Chinese influence it is worth revisiting a speech made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo directly to an assembly of U.S. Governors who were on the 2020 CCP influence list.
Pompeo’s remarks were made to the National Governors Association (NGA) Feb 8, 2020; and there’s an interesting segment where Pompeo reveals his awareness of a list of U.S. governors compiled by China’s communist party; and their alignment with China’s interests. A transcript of the key excerpt from his speech is provided. WATCH:
[Transcript at 01:45] […] “Last year, I received an invitation to an event that promised to be, quote, “an occasion for exclusive deal-making.” It said, quote, “the opportunities for mutually beneficial economic development between China and our individual states [are] tremendous,” end of quote.”
“Deal-making sounds like it might have come from President Trump, but the invitation was actually from a former governor.
I was being invited to the U.S.-China Governors’ Collaboration Summit.
It was an event co-hosted by the National Governors Association and something called the Chinese People’s Association For Friendship and Foreign Countries. Sounds pretty harmless.
What the invitation did not say is that the group – the group I just mentioned – is the public face of the Chinese Communist Party’s official foreign influence agency, the United Front Work Department.
Now, I was lucky. I was familiar with that organization from my time as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
But it got me thinking.
How many of you made the link between that group and Chinese Communist Party officials?
What if you made a new friend while you were at that event?
What if your new friend asked you for introductions to other politically connected and powerful people?
What if your new friend offered to invest big money in your state, perhaps in your pension, in industries sensitive to our national security?
These aren’t hypotheticals. These scenarios are all too true, and they impact American foreign policy significantly.
Indeed, last year, a Chinese Government-backed think tank in Beijing produced a report that assessed all 50 of America’s governors on their attitudes towards China. They labeled each of you “friendly,” “hardline,” or “ambiguous.”
I’ll let you decide where you think you belong. Someone in China already has. Many of you, indeed, in that report are referenced by name.
So here’s the lesson: The lesson is that competition with China is not just a federal issue. It’s why I wanted to be here today, Governor Hogan. It’s happening in your states with consequences for our foreign policy, for the citizens that reside in your states, and indeed, for each of you.
And, in fact, whether you are viewed by the CCP as friendly or hardline, know that it’s working you, know that it’s working the team around you.
Competition with China is happening inside of your state, and it affects our capacity to perform America’s vital national security functions.” (Keep Reading)
Secretary Pompeo, noting his prior role as CIA director, fired a shot across the bow of the governors with those remarks. Subtle as a brick through a window… letting them know of the Trump administration awareness of their Chinese influence.
To provide more information, Axios had an article earlier this year and included the Chinese Communist Party Report [Cloud pdf Here]
Friendly =sellout treasonous bastards
Kemp of Georgia also met with the Chinese spies at the consulate in Houston before it was shut down because of spying by the Trump administration.
Wonder what Kemp promised those spies as a present this year?
July 2019. He met with ChiCom spies in Houston, sent a lovely thank you note, and witbin two weeks he signed deal with Dominion. He has staff and people in his orbit made wealthy by Dominion, and apparently he paid car more than necessary to get it. Lucky us. You should see Kemp’s chinese web page: georgiabusiness.cn/
translated to english
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.georgiabusiness.cn%2F
He said yes to the Dominion contract for GA.
I noticed that there are not 50 governors on the list. I especially note the omission of Wisconsin and Nevada.
In addition, Newsom, Whitmer, Dewine, and John Bel Edwards are in the unknown category. Based on recent behaviors I can conclude one of two things:
A: The list was political disinformation as they let it get out. They named some govs. as friendly to make it look like it was inside information.
B: CCP poured loads of money into the people on the unclear list to turn them.
Or, they made the lists just as these govs were coming into office.
Good observations. As this list was put out by the Communist Chinese, one should question the content and motives.
Ron disantis???
That’s was my reaction too, seeing the Georgia and
= CuomoNew York governors in the hardliner list definitely misdirection.That was cool – used the edit feature by striking out the word and then replacing it, giving the italics for a spin, Nice!!! (I like the strike feature because it allows us to edit while not changing the gist of the the comment. Nice!!!
p.s. It’s probably safe to assume the Nevada governor is not listed as the Chinese have the State bought and paid for via former Senate leader black-eye-shining Harry Reid. What he says the governor does.
Don’t see Pritzker from Illinois on the list. He is as dirty as they come. Remember his sister Penny worked for the Obama Administration as secretary of Commerce. Part of the Chicago machine that trained Obama with the help of his handler Valerie Jarrett.
I didn’t see Nebraska, either.
50 governors x $100 million each = $5 billion. There are trillions at stake.
Wow, just wow. The CCP is so insidious.
You think this is bad, wait till you hear what they’ve been putting in our coke.
Diet Coke too? POTUS needs to drink water and tea!
I worry more about what they’ve been putting in our
cokecode, election and otherwise.(I never drink coke.)
Right in our faces!
Look at my gov on the top of that list! Beijing Ivy!! Traitors one and all.
Yep, Memaw Ivey has been forcing us to wear masks for months now and keeps extending the mandate. We shouldn’t be surprised that she’s “friendly” with China.
Ahh-so! Misdirection we see. China Brian Kemp listed as a ‘hardliner’. Yep.
My Oklahoma did not even make the list. OK government sends out teams to solicit foreign and USA development/capital funds all day long. It seems like we never get a factory or business from anywhere.
Listen up, you titans of industry! Plenty of locations open in western Oklahoma, we’ll let you have your own oil/gas well for power, cheap!
Holcomb (Indiana) is dirty. Did a dealmaking trip to China in September, 2019. A bunch of articles headlined something like ‘Amid Trade War…’
This report and his nonsense Covid restrictions he kept extending were why I supported Rainwater (Pro-Life Libertarian) this year. You saw signs for him everywhere and he did very well for a third party (close to 20%) but Holcolm pulled out over 50% anyway with barely 30% going to the Dem.
I didn’t think much about it at the time, but our electronic voting machines could be just as compromised as any other; just that Indiana might be a fiefdom granted the GOPe by the uniparty to milk for cash.
The pedes pouring over the data coming in though reported zero signs of the anomalies associated with vote flipping through so maybe we’re just too complacent with our Repubs here… still just the sheer nature of the nationwide corruption instills doubt even here to the point I wonder what the algorithms might be doing to third parties across the country and how funny it would be if we learned that instead of center-right tilting blue that most of the stolen votes that end up with the Dems are actually coming from larger third parties no one expects to win anyway so they don’t get more than a couple of percent.
If you set the Libertarian candidate to 0.5, who’d really question that they get only 2% of the votes instead of 4%… but that’s another 2% they can quietly add to the algorithm results for the Dem or Republican who is the highest bidder to the vote company.
Without serious election reforms (photo ID/signature matching, paper ballots, indelible finger ink, same day voting except for emergencies, tight chain of custody requirements and results all posted at the same time; ex. Midnight; so there’s no time when corrupt precincts know how many ballots they’d need to fake) I don’t see how we trust any result going forward.
I do believe Indiana does use Dominion and Smartmatic .
I looked on In.gov for info.
Pence campaigned to help Holcomb get where he is. Kind of makes one wonder about Pence and where his alliances really lie. Especially since Pence was in a camera pan of the audience, hugging (pre-covid) and chatting at length with Hillary Clinton during the Papa Bush funeral. He looked more relaxed and at ease in her presence than he ever has with President Trump.
Also remember that Pence’s (former) chief of staff, Joshua Pitcock, resigned in June 2017 after he was accused of being a SPY for the FBI. Pitcock’s wife worked for Peter Strzok, and the Page/Strozk texts showed that Strzok had a significant contact within the White House (Pitcock). Pitcock had worked for Pence for more than twelve years in various capacities, going back well before Pence’s White House days.
Pitcock was also a member of the Trump transition team according to his Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Pitcock. Who do you suppose helped facilitate that?
For those who say Pence is a religious and honorable man, remember Boy Scout Comey and straight-arrow Mueller and their ‘stellar reputations’ that we heard so much about? when they were first brought on.
Holcomb is a spineless useless scum. Definitely dirty.
I held my nose and voted for him. I was worried the vote would be split and Dem would get in. (I know, not much difference)
Why is it always one-way traffic? How come we can’t pay them off and infiltrate/undermine their way of life?
America: sugar on the table
China: ants on the march
Excellent analogy
True…..
Time to mix some 20-Mule Team Borax into that sugar on the table. If y’all get my drift…
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I wonder if the CCP ever grumbles about the ones that don’t seem to be “stayed paid”
Only to those that don’t understand the difference between ‘ownership’ and “renting”….
SueJeanne,
There was a story I read from the first volume of Robert Caro’s LBJ biography. Seems a certain Texas Democrat State Representative was approached by a lobbyist who wanted to purchase his affirmative vote on a certain bill. The negotiations ended with the lobbyist paying the politician $600 for his vote, which was a lot of money at the time. When the bill came up for a vote, the politician voted against it.
The lobbyist confronted him in the lobby of his Austin hotel and said, “You SOB, you took my money, promised to vote for my bill, and then you voted against it! Why?” The politician replied, “Well, you knew I was crooked when I took the $600…”
I’m sure we have tried, in fact I’m positive we had plenty of spies in China, but do you recall a report that didn’t receive much fanfare that stated due to info on Hillary’s hard drive all kinds of Chinese were taken up and disappeared? I seem to remember one like that.
“How come we can’t pay them off and infiltrate/undermine their way of life?”
They have to rig the systems to win. When the playing field is level – we win. Period.
I think because if they do they find themselves at the bottom of a river or getting dead from a robbery gone bad,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
or re-education, or organ donation or,,,,,,,,,
I remember reading about that speech. I get a “kick” out of Pompeo…
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Let’s take down China now. The Chinese people will thank us for it.
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“then out spake brave Horatius, Captain of the gate,
‘to every man upon this earth, death comest soon or late,
and how can a man die better, than facing fearful odds,
for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods’”
-Macaulay
John F. Kennedy famously said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
https://www.takimag.com/article/setting-the-stage-for-revolution/
Brian Kemp – Hardline!
Hardly – he folded like a cheap suit when they arrived with some cash!
Hardline just means they want a bigger check.
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As I stated above, it appears this list was disinformation, or they poured loads of cash into those who were on the 2 not friendly lists.
“Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?”
I think they already knew which governors were aligned and didn’t need more graft. It’s just like the Democrat party, once you’ve got a voting block locked, you move on to the next target.
But thankfully that doesn’t always work for them, as we saw with the incredible swing to MAGA among blacks this year.
Guilt is a rope that wears thin. – Ayn Rand
Wasn’t Kemp in a great deal of personal debt? Don’t recall where I read that however would explain the payoffs to his family, associates or himself.
And perhaps the same as Raffenberger?
Exclusive: Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians
https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html
I remember this speech. It was a shot across the bow and seemed to come out of nowhere. They (the governors) knew that they (Pompeo and President Trump) knew about these unholy alliances. Yet, here we are. Appears to be more flagrant, in your face, defiance since this election.
“We double dog dare you to do something about it”. They are confident that they have every “t” crossed and “i” dotted. Untouchable.
If this was the setting of a trap, now would be a good time to show who was caught.
Now would be a very good time for some heads of state to roll.
Action would be nice. As Ducey was certifying the knowingly fraudulant election in our state, he ignored the call from President Trump on camera. Can’t get anymore in your face than that.
Gingergal,
Like Kemp, Ducey’s career is over, finished, kaput. He killed it himself. He’s hoping to slink off with his ill-gotten gains and somehow avoid jail time. Not sure that is going to be allowed to happen. I suspect that if there is enough pressure on either of these two, they might turn state’s evidence, but it is more likely they would eat a pistol…
Pardon me for asking a blazingly obvious question, but I have yet to hear it answered:
What is going to be done about the open insurrection and treason taking place?
And the answer cannot be “urge your elected officials to stand firm”, “let them know we know”, or some form of “strong letter” pageantry. LEO, DoJ, and news outlets are hopelessly compromised, and the ballot boxes are crewed by members of the socially and legally protected classes far above reproach from the underclass.
Let me know if your answer is the same as mine.
I guess this Fang did not know Phyliss Diller.
Tucker Carlson has video of a Chinese Professor telling a Chinese audience that they have influence in top positions in USA – mainly Wall Street – and others until President Trump created challenges. We know; Now confirmed:
https://therightscoop.com/watch-tucker-exposes-scrubbed-video-of-chinese-professor-saying-they-have-people-at-top-of-america/
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Yes it has changed, please read the newest update article.
Just a simple reminder that Trump and the team KNOW whose been naughty and whose been nice.. All communications have been intercepted. All evidence filed and ready to present. Remember the E.O. (2019 I believe) about Election Interference and National Security, particularly singling out those that abet foreign actors? Yeah, about that.
Here comes Santa Claus! The naughty will be getting their “lump of coal.”
“Like” the new “Bell & Whistles” in the comment area.
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dun? done!!UHHH…YEAH!!! ?????????
Among the most significant targets of Fang’s efforts was Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.).
A statement from Swalwell’s office provided to Axios said: “Rep. Swalwell, long ago, provided information about this person — whom he met more than eight years ago, and whom he hasn’t seen in nearly six years — to the FBI. To protect information that might be classified, he will not participate in your story.”
What happened: Amid a widening counterintelligence probe, federal investigators became so alarmed by Fang’s behavior and activities that around 2015 they alerted Swalwell to their concerns — giving him what is known as a defensive briefing.
Between the lines: The case demonstrates China’s strategy of cultivating relationships that may take years or even decades to bear fruit. The Chinese Communist Party knows that today’s mayors and city council members are tomorrow’s governors and members of Congress. https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html
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I think you can safely put every Lockdown Lefty Governor/Mayor on this list as they are definitely doing China’s bidding by destroying Main Street and elevating K Street aka Wall Street.
IF they can’t burn you out of your home (Cali), they will WHO you out.
I had no idea just how deeply entrenched the chinese are in every aspect of American politics, security, and actually, every part of our lives.
I’m even more amazed at how much of what is happening is even legal.
Quite frankly, I doubt that a single governor gave a flying rat’s ass about what Pompeo
had to say.
The Pompeo speech drew my attention at the time it was made, so its reintroduction today leads me to offer some eccentric words of encouragement.
My wife and I live in an ancient part of England – the road past our house is more than 2000 years old that leads to an earthen hill fort first built 3500 years ago. More recently than that I lived in the USA for twelve years, doing business there, and I have a deep interest in both USA politics and history and I am an enthusiastic follower of Sundance. My wife is a well-known psychiatrist who takes note of her dreams, as some in her profession do, and over the years it’s definite that some of them have applied beyond mere self analysis and have turned out to apply to the future.
Let me share with you a very recent series of these, and offer a potential interpretation.
The first dream was where she dreamt that she woke up to find her twin (she doesn’t really have one) sitting at the bottom of her bed, and she sensed that the twin was a malevolent presence. It caused her to wake up. The dream was over.
She got up , although it was the middle of the night, drawn to the bright light coming through the window, and witnessed something remarkable. This was the most recent full moon, and in the sky she saw two full moons close together, one bright and the other more pale. This is a rare phenomenon caused by thin clouds and ice crystals, remarkable indeed in itself but more so in terms of her waking from a dream of a twin.
The following night she dreamt she was walking our dog along a path that is close to our house. The path was filled with fallen dry oak leaves, and became impassable because there were so many. She came to a sign that read HOW DO WE GET THROUGH? and the dream ended.
Then, a couple of nights later she had a vivid dream about her relatives and ancestors. That’s not really surprising because she studies her family’s ancestry – she’s got back to a Norman mercenary named in the the Domesday Book of 1087 – and many of the personae in the dream went back a long way. They were discussing a problem and they devised a solution she did not understand, and in the morning she asked me whether I could explain the solution to me. What, she asked, is a Meridian Punch?
I happened to know. It’s a Judo counterpunch, perhaps developed by the Samurai.
One of the things I have learned to do is to make notes of her dreams, and I offer the following interpretation, that hopefully will encourage some. The twins, one good one evil, are the Presidential opponents. The two moons, one strong and one pale, represent the fact that currently there are two who claim to be the President. The fallen leaves blocking the path are the votes cast in the recent election. Ancestors discussing a great problem reflect the Founders and the Constitution. The Meridian Punch indicates that the Great Counterpuncher has a solution, a crushing blow.
Please forgive this lengthy account. I hope it has held your attention. I was only prompted to relate it because Sundance has chosen to remind us of the Pompeo speech. On that point I note that the disgusting Kemp was rated to be against the Chinese on Pompeo’s list – but he dived for the money after the speech and bought the Dominion system. Sidney Powell has expressed a conviction that he and his cohorts personally benefitted from the purchase.
We all await the counterpunch.
The counter punch,
The book by Robert Moss, “The Secret History of Dreaming“, is definitely worth reading.
All these traitorous sum beeches better realize that every logsplitter becomes a guillotine.
AND we will have the rope to drop the blade!!! Sense it is about time for the BIG FUBAR to hit!!! Just my thoughts… when the President is this quiet…WOWZA!!! ??????
I believe the list of friendly vassals to the Chicoms has increased and needs an update.
Yeah and nothing became of it/ Typical
Here we go……..
Yea Texas
our first state to file against 4 of the swing states under Original Jurisdiction.
this means this case goes directly to the SC and WI, MI, GA, AN PA CAN NOTselect their electors until this lawsuit is heard and resolved assuming the SC takes the case.
https://twitter.com/RoscoeBDavis1/status/1336242937169113090
Yeah Texas!
Looks like it’s time to get Texas tough.
Now, why did I know to search for Roy Cooper in the “friendly” column?
Who would have thought Rinos are first in line selling us out for a few more dollars?
Very interesting. As usual
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So, so F’n what! Damn it.. SO WHAT!
When is enough enough, when do we do something that the traitors will regret.
Everyone on this site needs to understand this:
There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This
Tic-Tock, Tic-Tock,….Trump has this,(I pray)…..We know so much more now than we knew 5 years ago.
I think this was necessary. The light has been shined on politicians and the elite. And no, we can’t vote our way out of this.
Kind of like the count down on a bomb. Nobody knows when it’s gonna blow.
But its gonna blow..
By the way, we all share the frustration.
I remember this, and always wondered why those governors weren’t revealed and removed from office.
Clarification: Investigated to reveal the truth for all 50 governors and any that were suspect removed. I suspect strongly that the US Senate is compromised across the board. I’m not sure any of them aren’t in the pocket of foreign interests.
I remember this story too. I was a little relieved that my Governor, Kemp, was on the friendly list. My how the worm has turned . . .
He just needed a higher price. Traitor!!
I misspoke. Kemp was on the Hardliner list. Haven’t quite finished my coffee this morning. 😉
Fuhrer Cuomo, hardliner? Or just playing hard to get.
Remember, Judas was trusted to be in charge of the money.
Taking Chinese money is like sticking your finger in a Chinese finger trap; you don’t get out unless you push back.
The unclear list looks like everyone but Kristy Noem is not only friendly, but in bed with China. Newsome, Whitmer, Wolf, Hogan, Dewine, Inslee, Bevin and Bel Edwards are. I have heard Abbott may be also.
Arrests of high level government officials should happen in concert this week by Military.
I found this on WRSA, can anybody verify that Ruby Freeman published this? If this is true she should be arrested immediately.
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My money is on it being a fake.
Darn it, can’t people just publish the truth. I can’t edit it or delete it.
Good comments from Sect Pompeo but, no– we do not want chinese ‘students’ coming to study in the US. Not one good thing for the US comes from that. We also do not want chinese coming here to teach at US universities. These things are bad ideas for dozens of reasons.
This does not culturally enrich the US whatsoever. Chinese students have no intention of returning to china and tbey flood the job market with (low quality) cheap labor. Chinese faculty at US universities are absolute dumpster fires, at best, and spies at worst.
If someone wants exposure to chinese culture by a plane ticket to china. Enjoy. Most everyone i know who tried working there could not wait to leave.
I recall that press conference and listened closely. I was stunned to see our Governor of Idaho, BRAD LITTLE, on the “friendlies” list. That puts him in the dog house for me and I will spread the news in Idaho. We need to rid ourselves of the Communists/Marxists/Socialists/Progressives/RINO’s!
Fellow Idahoan here, and I was not surprised in the least. Brad Little is an exemplary Butch Otter protege without the charisma. Little’s lack of spine is the reason McGeachin was elected Lt Gov.
An acquaintance of mine who writes for the Moscow paper related a conversation she had with the Govs office in early September. She had called to get updates on the re-open plans and about a state-wide mask order. What she got was Little would like to be more draconian but is afraid of the back-lash.
Merry Christmas from Eastern Idaho, SG!
Gov Abbott, “Unknown”… ?
There truly is ‘nothing new under the sun’ – a Biblical reference to the fact that the ways of men became known long ago and do not change, apart from God’s influence.
Some quotes from my current read, Legend of the Celtic Stone by Michael Phillips –
“As the eighteenth century approached, the Highland chiefs could see their ancient ways dying out. Some, such as the leaders of the clan Campbell, at last gave in to the march of progress (with England). Those who went along cooperatively with the new order were rewarded. Money, grants of land, and positions of power were extremely effective inducements to the laying down of clan traditions, along with the swords and rifles that accompanied them.”
and
In 1685 Catholic James VII became king. “The English government, however, adamant that no Catholic could be allowed to be head of state, was determined to oust James from rule. So Parliament invited the king’s son-in-law, William of Orange, and James’ daughter Mary, over from Holland to assume the throne.” what followed resulted in many deaths
As I said, nothing new under the sun…
I don’t see Virginia’s (Govnr-blackface) on the list. must already own stock in some scheme to rob the voters
Va gov blackface in tbe friendly list i reckon. His democrat party alliances are globalist deep state corporate elitist high-tax open-borders surveillance police state. No friend of joe average in va
Divide. Conquer. One can easily imagine the ChiComs pitting one foolish governor against another for “investment” in their state. Getting concessions and even treasonous commitments to become an agent for the ChiComs.
That Axios chart has Kemp as a Hardliners?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/governor-brian-kemp-video-front-communist-flag-asking-chinse-companies-invest-georgia/
Brain Kemp asking for investment from China:
Don’t forget how many films and TV shows are made in Georgia:
‘How Atlanta became the Hollywood of the South’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/29/how-atlanta-became-the-hollywood-of-the-south/