Former Owner of Spa at Center of Kraft Investigation Defends Her Love of Trump

Li “Cindy” Yang, the former owner of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida, is many things: an entrepreneur, a Trump supporter, a lover of all things bedazzled. Yet she is not a foreign government agent, as she insisted in her first interview with NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

During the interview, Yang denied allegations by Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence and judiciary committees that she was a foreign agent working on behalf of the Chinese government, arguing that she was being targeted solely because of her race and her political leanings.

“I’m Chinese. I’m Republican,” Yang said to NBC Nightly News’ Lester Holt. “That’s the reason the Democrats want to check me.”

Yang first made headlines when it was reported that she was the former owner of Orchids of Asia Day Spa, which was one of a handful of spas and massage parlors busted during a Florida anti-sex trafficking investigation. One of the clients busted as a result of the sting was Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, who is now facing charges of two counts of soliciting prostitution.

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