Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate has raised many questions about Walz’s ties to Communist China, Peter Schweitzer noted on a recent show. Drill down Podcast.
Schweitzer and co-host Eric Eggers will welcome Fox Business commentator Charlie Gasparino to the show to discuss Walz’s selection and Gasparino’s new book about insider thinking in corporate America and politics.
According to multiple reports, Waltz first visited China in 1989 (the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre) and has been there some 30 times since. Waltz speaks passionately about China, and while he was a high school teacher in Nebraska in the 1990s, he led student trips to China. He acknowledged that he received funding. (by the Beijing government).
This is intriguing Drill down Podcast hosts Peter Schweitzer and Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Institute note that GAI has begun investigating Waltz’s ties to China, and say some of its findings are disturbing. Schweitzer points out that 30 years ago, when Waltz began making regular visits to Communist China, a young American with an attachment to China and a part-time member of the U.S. military would have been an attractive recruit for Chinese intelligence.
Charlie Gasparino has been covering the business world for over 15 years, and his latest book is Wake up and you’ll be bankrupt, The book, which hit bookstores yesterday, asks “how the wealthy men who run America’s corporations became tools of left-wing extremism.” Drawing on Gasparino’s extensive corporate sources and financial insights, the book charts how wokeness has imploded the balance sheets of companies from Disney to Boeing to Budweiser.
“First of all, I want to thank Kamala Harris for selling the book for me,” he jokes. Harris is a strong supporter of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies that have permeated corporate boardrooms since long before the 2020 Gordon Floyd riots. “The moral of the book is the complete failure of wokeness. Corporations realized they still have to sell products to people. And when I look at these people, [corporate leaders] “Stepping on their ‘um’s’ was one of the funniest things,” he says.
“So there’s a chapter there that is kind of important, the Summer of Love of 2020. A crazy year of corporate-level awakening during COVID-19, the George Floyd riots, the BLM riots. Jamie Dimon [CEO of JPMorganChase] He began to summon an inner awakening…He created a $30 billion racial equity fund, as if giving George Floyd a cheap mortgage would stop him from passing counterfeit bills in a convenience store that day…Everybody virtue-showed. Afterwards, he visited a branch, knelt down and had his picture taken,” he recalled.
“Years later, I was fact-checking the book and the publicist [at JPMorgan Chase] “They said, ‘No, no. Jamie doesn’t believe in Black Lives Matter. He doesn’t like Black Lives Matter. He just knelt for the photo,'” Gasparino laughs.
The book chronicles other big companies’ attempts to “woke up” only to then fall back: the sad story of Bud Light’s sponsorship of transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, which saw the company’s beer drop from number one to number three in sales, and how Bud Light has now struck a sponsorship deal with the UFC fighting federation to regain market share.
“They also sponsor Dana White’s side project, Power Slap, which is two big guys literally slamming each other until they knock the other out,” he says.
Turning to politics, Schweitzer asks whether corporate interests would back Kamala Harris’ campaign: “They’re not going to be enthusiastic. sell “I read somewhere recently that if you bought $10,000 in Disney stock in 2014, you’d have $10,000 by now. That says something about corporate consciousness.”
Does Gasparino think Kamala Harris herself was hired because of DEI?
“I column She said that, and then I got attacked by Gavin Newsom…But as people pointed out, Joe Biden said he wanted to specifically pick a woman, but after George Floyd black And he said in his speech that he believes in DEI and that “throughout my administration, Starts with “He’s called ‘Vice President.’ I mean, in a lot of ways, it just shows how stupid Biden is.”
Wake up and you’ll be bankruptis now available in all major bookstores.
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