Bannon’s Sugar Daddy Lavishes Dough On Santos

The Daily Beast reports:

After The Daily Beast reported that a bumper crop of new maximum donors to Rep. George Santos (R-NY) appeared to have links to indicted Chinese right-wing financier Guo Wengui, new evidence suggests those ties are even stronger than anyone could have guessed.

On Monday, the Hark Herald Press, an independent investigative outlet that scrutinizes Chinese political operations, reported that, according to its research, almost all of these new donors are connected to a group that Guo created with right-wing agitator and ally Steve Bannon, called the New Federal State of China (NFSC).

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In addition to the campaign donations, Guo is suspected of fronting the money for Santos’s bail to his family members. All of this is likely Santos’s reward for delivering a speech at a Bannon event calling for Guo’s release from jail, where he awaits trial on $1 billion fraud charges.