Steel Has Zero Response As Husband and Business Partner Sits At Center of Foreign Money Matchmaking Scheme
Michelle Steel, Chairwoman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, Chair of the Trump White House’s AAPI Commission and Republican Congressional candidate for CA-48, spent another day not saying a single thing regarding new reporting from the Wall Street Journal showing her husband and business partner, Shawn Steel, is at the center of a scandal for his work to open doors for Chinese foreign nationals to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to Trump and the RNC’s reelection efforts.
Steel’s relationship with these Chinese foreign nationals was so suspect and embarrassing for the GOP, the RNC instructed Steel “to break ties” with his Chinese political contacts. And when asked why he was hosting these Chinese foreign nationals and opening doors to the Trump reelection campaign for them, Steel had no response.
Now Michelle Steel, Orange County congressional candidate and the Chief Financial Officer to Shawn Steel Law Firm, still has ZERO response about her husband and business partner’s questionable and possibly illegal dealings.
“While the Steels refuse to answer questions about how they profited off these foreign dealings, Michelle Steel owes the voters of Orange County an explanation as to whether she supports the reported dealings of her husband and business partner in helping Chinese foreign national buy access to the Trump Administration and America’s top policymakers. Steel’s silence on her ties to her partner peddling access to foreign governments in order to influence our elections, tells the voters all they need to know about who she is working on behalf of – it is not the families of Orange County.” -DCCC Spokesperson Andy Orellana
According to the Wall Street Journal, “Soon after Donald Trump took office, people with ties to the Chinese state poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into his re-election bid to get close to and potentially influence the new president […] As guests of a Republican official named Shawn Steel, Chinese nationals, including a man working for China’s central government, attended an invitation-only gathering in May 2017 where GOP leaders discussed campaign strategies and other issues […] Several of those involved in the effort worked closely with China’s national-security apparatus, including organizations linked to its military, and briefed prominent Chinese political figures about their efforts. As guests of a Republican official named Shawn Steel, Chinese nationals, including a man working for China’s central government, attended an invitation-only gathering in May 2017 where GOP leaders discussed campaign strategies and other issues.”
Let’s not forget that the voters of CA-48 already rejected in 2018 a coopted Republican official with direct ties to a foreign government that served as Shawn Steel’s wing man, and they don’t want another corrupted Republican who’s at a minimum complicit in the lobbying of foreign interests over the needs of Californians.
###