The Globetrotting Con Man and Suspected Spy Who Met With President Trump

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By 2020, the DEA wanted Tao Liu for his role aiding Xizhi Li build a money laundering empire that washed Latin American cartel cash via Chinese elites.

In 2018, the FBI wanted to know why Liu was meeting with President Trump.

We found they met twice: https://propublica.org/article/liu-tao-trump-meeting-china-investigation…
Then-President Donald Trump sits with Tao Liu (dark jacket, pink shirt) and Joseph Cinque (next to Trump) at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in July 2018 in a photo o obtained by @ProPublica.
6:02 AM · Oct 11, 2022

https://www.propublica.org/article/liu-tao-trump-meeting-china-investigation

In July 2018, President Donald Trump met at his New Jersey golf club with a Chinese businessman who should have never gotten anywhere near the most powerful man in the world.

Tao Liu had recently rented a luxurious apartment in Trump Tower in New York and boasted of joining the exclusive Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

But Liu was also a fugitive from Chinese justice. Media reports published overseas three years before the meeting had described him as the mastermind of a conspiracy that defrauded thousands of investors. He had ties to Chinese and Latin American organized crime. Perhaps most worrisome, the FBI was monitoring him because of suspicions that he was working with Chinese spies on a covert operation to buy access to U.S. political figures.

Yet there he sat with Trump at a table covered with sandwiches and soft drinks, the tall windows behind them looking onto a green landscape.

A longtime Trump associate who accompanied Liu was vague about what was discussed, telling ProPublica that they talked about the golf club, among other things.

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[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[msfiddlestix]

6. So has he been arrested and charged yet?

[Frustratedlady]

7. Wonder what those papers on the table are? n/t

[Chainfire]

2. Birds of a feather.

[Wicked Blue]

3. TFG will meet with any scum from the international swamp

if he thinks there's something in it for him.

[empedocles]

4. Very extensive, revealing article. Total con, might have been irresistable to traitortrump

[louis-t]

5. His connections to organized crime were the sole reason

he was not allowed to own a casino in Vegas or buy an NFL football team.

[spanone]

8. Because trump is the King of Money Laundering?