Donald Trump, Jr. and former Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro have been linked to Steve Bannon’s dissident Chinese billionaire benefactor Guo Wengui’s bankruptcy case, which is a different issue than Guo’s outstanding criminal issues.
As the Daily Beast reports, Junior and Navarro are among the names listed in a 25-page catalog of possible defendants in Guo’s case from whom creditors may target to “claw back” payments or transfers Guo made before declaring bankruptcy. It’s a maneuver that can be used to get money back from a debtor who is trying to hide assets from creditors, and frequently business associates listed on such documents were paid for legitimate reasons, so the fact that they’re listed is not in and of itself tawdry.
What is tawdry, though, is that this is the first direct link between Guo–a dissident Chinese billionaire who’s facing US charges for a fraudulent scheme so massive, federal prosecutors described the operation as a “criminal organization”–with Li’l Cheetolino and Navarro, and it comes in a court document asserting Guo paid them each a significant amount of money. It appears Junior was taking money from China, something he’s accused Hunter of.