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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell, well, well. U.S. Counterintelligence Warned Jared Kushner About Wendi Deng Murdoch
Officials said the businesswoman could be trying to further Beijings interests, people familiar with the matter say
WASHINGTONU.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner, President Donald Trumps son-in-law and senior adviser, that Wendi Deng Murdoch, a prominent Chinese-American businesswoman, could be using her close friendship with Mr. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, to further the interests of the Chinese government, according to people familiar with the matter.
U.S. officials have also had concerns about a counterintelligence assessment that Ms. Murdoch was lobbying for a high-profile construction project funded by the Chinese government in Washington, D.C., one of these people said.
The project, a planned $100 million Chinese garden at the National Arboretum, was deemed a national-security risk because it included a 70-foot-tall white tower that could potentially be used for surveillance, according to people familiar with the intelligence communitys deliberations over the garden. The garden was planned on one of the higher patches of land near downtown Washington, less than 5 miles from both the Capitol and the White House.
Ms. Murdoch in 1999 married Rupert Murdoch, who is the executive chairman of News Corp, which publishes The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Murdoch filed for divorce in 2013. Ms. Murdoch still uses her married name.
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-warned-jared-kushner-about-wendi-deng-murdoch-1516052072
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Much like Mrs. Mitch McConnell and the contract to run US Coastal Water Shipping.
TheBlackAdder
(28,203 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)cover of a Beautiful Persons Magazine in 2016. Then on to a Putin Villa on the Black Sea.
jrthin
(4,836 posts)I thought it weird. Since that time, I have been waiting to see our government haul Ivanka's ass to prison for treason.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)wendy may have had affairs with Tony Blair and with Eric Schmidt (Alphabet chairman).
She is rumored to now be dating... Vladimir Putin.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/vladimir-putin-wendi-deng-couple
BigmanPigman
(51,599 posts)romantic interests from several different sources a year ago. I even had a conversation about it at a holiday party. I assumed it was common knowledge. It doesn't surprise me a bit. Birds of a feather.....
Irish_Dem
(47,108 posts)Jared and Wendy?
Blair and Wendy?
Putin and Wendy?
BigmanPigman
(51,599 posts)In fact I first heard of it on a Rachel Maddow (or maybe Richard Engel MSNBC) show last year when she was doing a long special about the Moron's family, Ivanka being old friends with Wendy, buildings going up in countries that couldn't afford them (money laundering and real estate) and so on.
Irish_Dem
(47,108 posts)The rumor is that she was involved Tony Blair too.
Edited to add: she must be quite a femme fatale.
erronis
(15,286 posts)A tilt of the head, a sideways glance, a touch of makeup...
We are animals, after all.
The little bit of white matter at the front of the human brain (the prefrontal cortex) has a huge role on controlling impulsivity. Some of us are more developed in that area. (I am not.)
Irish_Dem
(47,108 posts)Wendy must be a hot item to be so successful in her pursuits.
Murdoch married her and she has been a long time Putin girlfriend.
Murdoch is worth $15 Billion and Putin $600 Billion.
And Blair was a prime minister.
PS Erronis, thanks for the warning about your frontal lobe problems,
and the need for women to keep an eye out for you.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,108 posts)I just read that she is supposed to have had an affair with Tony Blair too.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,108 posts)She must be quite the hot item.
These 4 associations go back a long way.
At least 2007/08.
Rupert Murdoch advised Jared on his purchase of the NY Observer.
Wendy reunited the kushners after a breakup.
The Kushners & Murdoch/Deng couples have a history that tells us the advice Jared was given warning of Deng's intentions, was completely ignored.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Interesting
spanone
(135,838 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)F.A.R.A. opens their books to scrutiny. No more secrecy for them.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)I think not.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)What horrible human beings.
wishstar
(5,269 posts)Whether it's Chinese or Russian oligarchs or wealthy leaders of Saudi Arabia or United Arab Emirates, he has been open to deals.
Ivanka has admitted that her "friendship" with Wendi is in order to make business connections.
Besides just the yacht vacation in Croatia last summer with Wendi, he and Ivanka have socialized at various locations with Putin buddy Roman Abramovich and his wife.
Irish_Dem
(47,108 posts)Way over extended financially and needs lots of cash.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)I dont think his debt problems will go away any time soon.
He is and was a prime candidate for kompromat from everybody.
Irish_Dem
(47,108 posts)A crook and bad human being. nt
dhol82
(9,353 posts)There is something really kinky in that family.
Irish_Dem
(47,108 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)DAMN !! She must have some very special "skills" and a penchant for rich men at least 30 years her senior. Home wrecker and social climber. My my my
When Deng was living with Jake and Joyce Cherry during Deng's studies in the United States, Joyce Cherry discovered her husband, Jake, was having an affair with Deng, who was 30 years his junior, and demanded Deng leave the house. Jake Cherry soon followed and moved in with Deng,[10] and the two married in 1990.[9] Their marriage lasted 2 years 7 months before they were legally divorced,[10] but Jake would later explain they stayed together for only four or five months, when he learned that Deng was spending time with David Wolf, a man closer to her age.[9] Nonetheless, she had been able to secure a green card through her marriage to Cherry.[9][10]
In 1997 she met Rupert Murdoch, who was 37 years her senior, while working as the only Chinese executive at the Murdoch-owned Star TV in Hong Kong.[20] They married in 1999[citation needed] on board his yacht "Morning Glory",[21] less than three weeks after the finalisation of his divorce from his second wife, Anna Murdoch. Following the marriage, she was branded a "gold digger" by sources close to Murdoch, including family members.[22][23] The couple had two children, Grace (born 2001) and Chloe (born 2003). Tony Blair is Grace Murdoch's godfather.[24] In June 2013, Murdoch filed for divorce from Deng, citing irreconcilable differences.[4]
On February 5, 2014, The Daily Telegraph published a report claiming Deng had a crush on Tony Blair, leading to her divorce from Murdoch. The report stated that Murdoch began to hear rumours about his wife in 2012 and is said to have interviewed staff members at his various homes to ask them what they had seen. According to the newspaper, Murdoch learned that Blair had visited Deng at Murdoch's Carmel ranch on more than one occasion. Blair allegedly spent the weekend of April 27, 2013, with Deng at the property. Other sources are quoted as placing Blair and Deng at The Carlyle in New York, on a private yacht, and at Murdoch's home in London.[25] An article in The Economist claimed that as a result of Murdoch's suspicion that Blair had an affair with Deng, he ended his long-standing association with Blair in 2014.[26]
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Sounds like she is an asset of Chinese intelligence.
KrazyinKS
(291 posts)The surveillance tower bit is what got me. And it's icy outside, too icy to go get a bottle of wine!
lapucelle
(18,265 posts)at around the same time that Ivanka vacationed with her in the summer of 2016.
While the Wendi-Vlad dating rumor was never substantiated, there were some BFF pix of Invanka and Wendi that the pair posted on Instagram.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/vladimir-putin-wendi-deng-couple
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/ivanka-trump-wendi-deng-vacation