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Audiotape: Obama DHS Secretary Caught Discussing Donald Trump, Visa Case
with Controversial Chinese Billionaire
A recording of Obama era Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson
soliciting controversial Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui for legal
representation for his immigration woes emerged over the weekend.
Johnson, who since the end of President Barack Obama’s term has returned to
eminent New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, can be
heard listening to Guo explain his perilous visa situation and offers the
potential services of himself and his firm, referring to an upcoming meeting
with FBI investigators.
“You are somebody I want to help. You and your family and your lovely wife,
I want to help you,” Johnson can be heard saying before turning to his
ties within the federal government to make his pitch.
“I am the only member of Barack Obama’s cabinet that has met with Donald
Trump,” Johnson tells Guo in the recording. “I wrote him a personal letter
yesterday.”
It is unclear from the tape, which appears to be heavily edited, to which
president Johnson is referring, but he then brags that he can get Guo “a
pair of cufflinks from the secret service.”
Johnson emphatically insists multiple times that Guo not tell anyone about
their meeting. “This is the point at which – nothing – you never met this
man. You never talked to him,” an unidentified female voice tells Guo of
Johnson.
Johnson advises Guo to meet with the FBI, with him present, before he speaks
to any representative of the Chinese government.
A spokesman from Paul, Weiss confirmed to Breitbart News the identities of
the voices in the recording and noted that neither Johnson nor the firm had
eventually taken Guo on as a client. The statement read:
A meeting between Mr. Kwok [an alias of Mr. Guo] and Secretary Johnson
several months ago about a possible representation appears to have been
recorded and released on YouTube. Secretary Johnson and the firm did not
take on the representation. We have no information about the circumstances
in which the recording was made.
“I don’t think you need to worry about Donald Trump,” the unidentified
female voice jokes. She then mentions that Guo, to whom she refers as Miles,
is a member of the Trump Organization-owned Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach,
FL, and that “I made that happen.”
Guo, a Chinese business tycoon in self-imposed exile in New York City, has
emerged as a frequent critic of the current Communist Party leadership in
the People’s Republic of China under the adopted name Miles Kwok. He
accuses a bevy of officials loyal to current General Secretary Xi Jinping of
rampant corruption. As a May feature in the New York Times put it, “Mr.
Guo’s allegations are unproved, and some of his claims have been outlandish
and easily debunked.”
Guo was rumored to have much warmer relations with the regime of Xi’s
predecessor, Hu Jintao.
The social media campaign he wages from his reputed $78 million New York
City apartment is by no means the beginning of Guo’s hijinx. In 2008, he
was reported to be behind the release of an hour-long sex tape between a
Beijing Vice-Mayor who opposed one of Guo’s developments and a mistress.
The tape ended the official’s career.
Guo is not himself without allegations against him. In China, his
subordinates are facing lengthy prison terms after being convicted on
bribery and corruption charges. In America, he faces billions of dollars in
liability in lawsuits brought by Chinese. In a video that emerged in April,
a jailed ex-Chinese spy can be seen making a lengthy “confession” that
further implicates Guo. It is rumored Guo, with a looming INTERPOL warrant
for his arrest, is facing prosecution should he return to China, may be
seeking asylum in the United States, which would explain why he may have
sought to enlist the help of a personage like Secretary Johnson.
The exact means by which the Johnson recording was made and brought to light
are unclear. A source familiar with Mr. Guo’s activities in China told
Breitbart News Guo records many if not all his business dealings. The source
suggested it may have emerged as part of Guo’s legal troubles in his
native country. |
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