On Friday, Fox Business – which typically extends the benefit of the doubt to allies of President Donald Trump – aired a segment that asked some blunt questions and made some blunt assertions about one White House official’s potential role in a “conspiracy” that has shocked the world over the past w...

On Friday, Fox Business – which typically extends the benefit of the doubt to allies of President Donald Trump – aired a segment that asked some blunt questions and made some blunt assertions about one White House official’s potential role in a “conspiracy” that has shocked the world over the past week. According to one frequent Fox contributor, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick “has a lot to answer for” if he was involved with schemes to smuggle banned microchips to China.

  • 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    31·
    8 hours ago

    I’m not a professional, but I imagine this could accomplish:

    • make the admin look “tough on China” to the public eye
    • allow for under the table deal -> discrete income directly to Trump/associates’ pockets