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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYTimes: Bob Dole Worked Behind the Scenes on Trump-Taiwan Call
Mr. Dole, a lobbyist with the Washington law firm Alston & Bird, coordinated with Mr. Trumps campaign and the transition team to set up a series of meetings between Mr. Trumps advisers and officials in Taiwan, according to disclosure documents filed last week with the Justice Department. Mr. Dole also assisted in successful efforts by Taiwan to include language favorable to it in the Republican Party platform, according to the documents.
Mr. Doles firm received $140,000 from May to October for the work, the forms said.
The disclosures suggest that President-elect Trumps decision to take a call from the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, was less a ham-handed diplomatic gaffe and more the result of a well-orchestrated plan by Taiwan to use the election of a new president to deepen its relationship with the United States with an assist from a seasoned lobbyist well versed in the machinery of Washington.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/us/politics/bob-dole-taiwan-lobby-trump.html
boston bean
(36,229 posts)putitinD
(1,551 posts)..........
RazBerryBeret
(3,075 posts)and now Bob Dole? it's like a nightmarish deja-vu.... Names I hoped to never hear again.
raging moderate
(4,325 posts)All that faux rage of theirs a few months ago was just a smokescreen. This whole thing was engineered. We need to ask ourselves, What are they engineering now?
Baitball Blogger
(46,828 posts)This is why the behind the scenes of 9/11 should have been explored publicly They are doing the same shit!
Renew Deal
(81,926 posts)It never made sense.
Johonny
(21,032 posts)Given the state Dole is in. I think we can imagine this is more foreign governments greasing the weak areas of the GOP wheel in a form of influence peddling. I'm sure the lesson mainland China learned is...these guys are bought rather cheap so don't worry too much about their bluster.
Baitball Blogger
(46,828 posts)We are so fooked!
Zorro
(15,764 posts)No surprise here.
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