Exclusive – David Perdue: Jon Ossoff’s Chinese Communist-Linked Company Payment a ‘Huge Liability’
DALLAS, Georgia — Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) told Breitbart News Tuesday on the campaign bus that Georgia Senate Democrat candidate Jon Ossoff has a huge “liability” with his omission of a payment from a Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked company, which may jeopardize Democrats’ chances of taking back the Senate.
Breitbart News reported that Ossoff failed to list a payment that his film company, Insight TWI, received a payment from Hong Kong-based PCCW Media Limited on his financial disclosure. Ossoff later amended his filings to include the payment. The Georgia GOP submitted a complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee regarding the payment. Ossoff’s campaign attributed the payment omission to a “paperwork oversight” caught during a “normal review.”
The campaign later said Ossoff received “around $1,000” from the CCP-linked media company. This conflicts with the Senate filling requirement to disclose payments that are more than $5,000.
Ossoff’s campaign did not respond to Breitbart News’s Ashley Oliver over whether Ossoff had proof of the claimed amount of $1,000.
Perdue told Breitbart News that Ossoff has been hiding the details of his work with the Chinese company from Georgians.
“There’s a lot of controversy about that; he’s not come clean about any of it. You know, he worked for the CCP company, we know that. He hid it from Georgians during the primary; he got caught then filed a document so that he wouldn’t go to jail. There’s a federal document saying that he worked for them, and yet he lied about it later in a debate,” Perdue said.
“I think this goes back two years according to the record, he won’t tell us how much they paid him they won’t tell us what his job was, but I will tell you this that was propaganda company for the CCP. That was owned by the Chinese government,” Perdue said.
He added, “So, he’s got a lot to tell the people of the world, of course, he’s not saying a word about it.”
Perdue charged that Ossoff’s China payment has started becoming a liability for President-elect Joe Biden, which may jeopardize Democrats’ chances of gaining the Senate majority.
He said, “I think Ossoff is becoming a liability for Biden on a couple of fronts. The China one is a huge one, you know. Biden wants the Democrats to have the majority, so he’s telling these guys to back off on defunding the police, back off on China, play defense on that; we think they both ought to come clean about, particularly about Ossoff and his relationship with China.”
Perdue charged that it goes much larger than his China payments; the Georgia conservative labeled Ossoff a “career politician wannabe” who has lived off his father’s largess.
“I mean, he worked for nine years at a company his daddy bought. You know he’s never really done anything in the real world,” he said.
“It just shows you that this kid has never produced a result in his life and never produced one American job in his career, and he’s the only career politician wannabe he hasn’t been elected yet,” Perdue said.
In contrast, Perdue said he has served as a political outsider, who grew up on a farm and rose to become a successful businessman.
“You know, I’m an outsider in this political process … you know my mom and dad were schoolteachers. We grew up on a farm. We were taught about hard work, and we lived in America,” he said.
“I worked my way through Georgia Tech,” Perdue added.
“When you have a long-term [business] career like that, you sort of develop a perspective really about life and the government role in business, and I believe in limited government, and my opponent believes in bigger government. I believe in economic opportunity for everybody; they believe in socialism.”
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
Deep State Pushes to Deep-Six Intelligence Report Demonstrating Chinese Interference in 2020 Election
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe is considering not signing an intelligence report to Congress if it does not accurately reflect an ongoing debate among intelligence community career analysts over Chinese attempts to influence American voters in the 2020 election, according to a source familiar with the issue.
The intelligence report on foreign efforts to influence the 2020 election is due to Congress on Friday, but Ratcliffe is concerned it will not accurately reflect the debate among senior intelligence community analysts as to the extent of China’s influence operations during the election, according to the source.
There is allegedly “ample” raw intelligence about China’s intentions and actions related to the election, with more intelligence reporting coming in everyday. Some of the influence operations include social media campaigns seeking to amplify messages such as that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist.
However, senior career analysts disagree on the significance of those influence operations. Some analysts argue that they were minimal or ultimately not acted on, while others say it is extensive and far more than previously known. The disagreement includes whether there should be a China section in the report, according to the source.
Despite this serious debate, Ratcliffe is concerned that proper tradecraft — which would require that the disagreement be reflected in the report with both views represented — will not be followed simply in order to deprive President Trump of a potential political talking point.
In other words, Ratcliffe is concerned that the intelligence report would be written in a way due to politics — the very definition of politicization of intelligence, and only bury real and growing concerns about China from the intelligence community.
A senior national security official told Breitbart News on background:
Good to see Ratcliffe stepping up and addressing the China issue inside the IC. This appears to be a textbook case of intelligence being politicized by a handful of careerists in the bowels of the CIA. They don’t want to give Trump the talking points that China was engaged in election influence operations, but we all know they were.
Ratcliffe has applauded the growing focus among the intelligence community on China, which he said for the last few decades has prioritized counterterrorism. He wrote in an op-ed on December 3 in the Wall Street Journal:
Within intelligence agencies, a healthy debate and shift in thinking is already under way. For the talented intelligence analysts and operators who came up during the Cold War, the Soviet Union and Russia have always been the focus. For others who rose through the ranks at the turn of this century, counterterrorism has been top of mind. But today we must look with clear eyes at the facts in front of us, which make plain that China should be America’s primary national security focus going forward.
The intelligence report would go to Congress in a classified form, but would be released in an unclassified form to the public weeks afterwards, which will certainly fuel public discussion on Chinese election interference, as President-Elect Joe Biden seeks to move past what for many was a contested outcome.
The current IC debate is similar to a debate that was not reflected in the Obama administration 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment, which alleged Russia interfered in the 2016 election to specifically hurt Hillary Clinton and help Trump.
There was fierce debate among intelligence agencies over whether Russia’s goal was to help Trump or just to sow discord, but that debate was not reflected in the ICA, which was then used as a talking point by the left that the Trump campaign and Russia had colluded. After several years and millions of dollars, Special Counsel Robert Mueller found there was no criminal collusion, conspiracy, or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The intelligence report only covers foreign influence operations related to the election, not voter or election fraud or election security.
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