Webinar | Mitch McConnell: Now’s Time for the CCP’s Old Friend to Go

The Senate Needs a New Minority Leader for the Next Eight Months

Senator Mitch McConnell announced this week that he will not run again for the post of his chamber’s Minority Leader after the November election. But, for a number of reasons directly relevant to the concerns of the Committee on the Present Danger: China, he needs to resign that position now, not cling to it for the next eight, critical months.

For one thing, Senator McConnell and his wife, former Labor and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, have made large personal fortunes in the family shipping business with Communist China. Such ties deserve serious examination, especially in light of the recent demise of Secretary Chao’s sister, Angela Chao, who also had extensive ties to the CCP, in a pond on the McConnells’ ranch in Texas under circumstances now deemed to warrant a criminal investigation.

Given the Senator’s longtime involvement with the Chinese Communist Party and his very strained relationship with former President Donald Trump, he would be in a position to undermine the re-election bid of a man the CCP helped remove from office with its COVID-19 biological weapons attack – and definitely does not want to return to the White House.

Mr. McConnell may also reprise over the next eight months his practice of exploiting control over campaign resources to subvert Republican candidates for the many Democrat-held and open Senate seats this fall who would not be aligned with him. That may redound especially to the detriment of GOP critics of the PRC.

Then, there is the prospect that Senator McConnell will continue to perform as the Democrats’ controlled-opposition – going along with agendas that benefit the Chinese Communist Party, including border insecurity, reckless deficit spending, “global governance,” and climate change that most GOP voters categorically reject.

This CPDC webinar considers Senator McConnell’s record in these regards and the harm that may befall the Republic should he remain as Senate Minority Leader between now and November.

Moderator:

- Frank Gaffney, Founder and Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China, co-author, “The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party and Friends for Crimes Against America, China, and the World”

Panelists:

- Brian Costello – Longtime Tech Investor and Artificial Intelligence entrepreneur –   Topic: “Mitch McConnell’s Ties to the Chinese Communist Party: A Disqualification for Republican Leader”

- George Rasley, Former staff member in the U.S. House of Representative, U.S. Senate and Office of the Vice President; involved in over 300 political campaigns; Editor-in-Chief, Conservative HQ – Topic: “An Assessment of the Damage Mitch McConnell Could Inflict as a Lame Duck Minority Leader over the Next Eight Months.”

- Trevor Loudon, Author, essayist, podcaster and documentary filmmaker including: Enemies Within, “Enemies Within the Church,” Security Risk Senators, and House Un-Americans – Topic: “Security Risk Senators: The CCP’s ‘Elite Capture’ in the Leadership and Membership of the U.S. Senate.”