Fox BusinessMichael Pillsbury, an outside adviser to President
Donald Trump on
China trade policy, told Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs on Wednesday night that he pressed the Chinese government on issues surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.Last week, despite already facing an impeachment inquiry for pressuring the Ukrainian president to investigate a 2020 political rival, Trump publicly called for China to open an investigation into the Bidens. It was later reported that the president mentioned Biden in an earlier call with the Chinese president, reportedly promising to stay quiet on the Hong Kong
protests as trade talks progressed.During Pillsbury’s Wednesday appearance on Lou Dobbs Tonight, the Trump confidant said he was in
Beijing a week ago and that the Chinese are currently looking at this impeachment issue as “the weakening of President Trump.”“They think
Nancy Pelosi is a factor in the China trade talks,” Pillsbury added. “In a way, the
Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy. But that will hold the Chinese back from making the kind of concessions
President Trump needs.”Pillsbury, who has become an extremely influential figure in Trump’s hawkish China trade policy, went on to express his disappointment that the Chinese are apparently leaving the latest round of trade talks early, once again noting that the impeachment inquiry has really affected their view of the Trump administration.Dobbs, meanwhile, argued that this should show what the “radical Dimms”—Dobbs’ nickname for Democrats—are up to, adding that the “focus should have been on the relationship between the
Democratic Party and its collusion with China.” That prompted Pillsbury to casually make a stunning admission.“I tried to bring up the topic in Beijing,” he said. “Just tell me what happened with Hunter Biden. I have never seen them get so secretive in my life.”Pillsbury continued: “They would discuss ICBM warheads rather than talk about what Hunter Biden was doing in China with Vice President Biden. That is a big area now where the Chinese know they don’t want any
American probe into what happened with Hunter Biden.”Following Trump publicly urging China to look into the family of a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, several GOP lawmakers joined Democrats in criticizing the president. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) called it a “big mistake” while Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said it was “wrong and appalling.”Earlier this week, the Chinese government announced that it had no desire to get involved with a Biden investigation, saying it has “long pursued the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries.”