Andy Biggshot says China's the #1 Threat to the US; NYTimes says Trump has a bank account there UPDATED 10/21 6pm MST

Updated with video from The Rachel Maddow Show cue'd to her report on Trump's secret China bank account and financial activity.

All of this while His Weakness, the President, is trying to use extremely broad brushstrokes to paint Hunter Biden and therefore Joe Biden as a threat to national security... or something like that.

First, let's set the stage.

The New York Times ongoing coverage of Trump's financial situations today included disclosure that "Dear Leader" has a bank account in China.

President Trump and his allies have tried to paint the Democratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr., as soft on China, in part by pointing to his son’s business dealings there.

Senate Republicans produced a report asserting, among other things, that Mr. Biden’s son Hunter “opened a bank account” with a Chinese businessman, part of what it said were his numerous connections to “foreign nationals and foreign governments across the globe.”

But Mr. Trump’s own business history is filled with overseas financial deals, and some have involved the Chinese state. He spent a decade unsuccessfully pursuing projects in China, operating an office there during his first run for president and forging a partnership with a major government-controlled company.

And it turns out that China is one of only three foreign nations — the others are Britain and Ireland — where Mr. Trump maintains a bank account, according to an analysis of the president’s tax records, which were obtained by The New York Times.

How ironic that this Times report was published the same day that Trump sycophant and Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs(hot) declared,

October 20, 2020
Press Release

GILBERT, ARIZONA – Today, Congressman Andy Biggs introduced a concurrent resolution, recognizing the People’s Republic of China as the greatest foreign threat to United States’ peace, security, and stability.

The resolution…

1. Recognizes that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) currently poses the greatest foreign threat to United States peace, security, and stability;
2. Recognizes that the PRC, regardless of future leadership, will likely continue to be a major rival of the United States in the coming decades, due to the enormous cumulative size and scale of its population, economy, and military capabilities; and
3. Supports the Trump administration’s overall strategic approach to the PRC, grounded in principled realism and firm-but-measured competitive engagement whenever United States national interests are at stake, that has been outlined in sources including but not limited to:

• the United States Strategic Approach to the People’s Republic of China (May 2020)
• the National Defense Strategy of the United States of America (October 2018);
• the National Cyber Strategy of the United States of America (September 2018);
• the National Security Strategy of the United States of America (December 2017);

Read the text of the concurrent resolution (until he takes it down, then you can find it here)

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This morning, the Appellate Court Commission on Appointments met to address the vacancy on the list of politically unaffiliated names finalized last week when Nicole Cullen, one of those Independent applicants withdrew her name from consideration. Megan Corollo was added to the list. 

Dennis Burke, a co-author of the voter approved initiative that instituted independent redistricting in Arizona, was on hand to express concerns about Thomas Loquvam, the APS-owned "independent." Thank you Dennis. 

I'm actually sort of surprised (and disappointed) that the Arizona Democratic Party didn't show up to also demand Loquvam's removal from the list. 

By the way, All on the Line, which bills itself as a grassroots organization on a mission to end gerrymandering and which advocates for fair redistricting, has, as far as I can tell, done nothing to reach that stated objective thus far in Arizona. Every effort that I have made to communicate with the local contact person has been unsuccessful.