The next two-week scandal. How many have the Dems dreamed up? 40 or 50?

Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times: Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE  —  BEIJING — China this month awarded Ivanka Trump seven new trademarks across a broad collection of businesses, including books, housewares and cushions. 

The scandal?  Papa Trump does a favor for ZTE in return for Ivanka being able to sell inentories (what ever that happens to be).

She has been closing this deal for months. But the Dems will shout "Quid Pro Quo."  Of course they will have nothing to back up their claims,  but,  if you are a Democrat,  who cares about proof or evidence ?  

Here is the CBS report (no mention of Ivanka) :

WASHINGTON - The U.S. and China are working toward an agreement that would ease U.S. sanctions that were imposed on ZTE Corp. and let the Chinese telecommunications giant stay in business.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday the deal might require ZTE to revamp its board and pay a fine of $1 billion or more.
The ZTE talks occur after the U.S. and China over the weekend suspended plans to impose tariffs on as much as $200 billion in each other's goods, pulling back from the brink of a trade war. China on Tuesday made a conciliatory gesture by cutting the tariff on imported vehicles to 15 percent from 25 percent, effective July 1.


Editor: the "deal" described above,  is a trade deal,  not a quid pro quo arrangement.  Such arrangements benefit individuals.  When nations solve their trade issues via compromise,  that is called "good business,"  Marco Rubio is concerned that Trump has traded the security of the nation
(ZTE has been guilty of stealing intellectual property from US companies).  Our response to his concerns is embedded in the following question:  Does Marco seriously believe that the various Federal agencies having to do with policing ZTE,  will turn a blind eye to future bad faith trade practices  ? Of course not.

Ivanka's net worth is somewhere over 300 million and her husband is worth 800 million.  He has been a multi-millionaire since at least age 25,  when he put 10 million in a news paper purchase.  my point ?  The couple need a quid pro quo business deal as much as Custer needed another Indian. 

The facts of the ZTE deal are these:  ZTE pays at least a billion dollar fine.  China rescinds on plans to impose $200 billion dollars worth of new tariffs from American companies including a cut in tariffs on imported cars (from the US) from 25%  to 15%. 

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