Some call him Miles Guo. Others call him Guo Wengui. To top Trump allies like Steve Bannon and Jason Miller, he is an ally and a business partner. But, to federal authorities, he is an alleged felony fraudster. On Wednesday, the FBI arrested Guo on 12 counts of felony fraud in New York. It marks another remarkable chapter in the bizarre saga of Guo, who has gone from a fugitive Chinese billionaire to a key figure on the MAGA right. His organization, the New Federal State of China, was a major sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference this year.
Who is Guo Wengui?
Guo fled China for the United States in 2014, facing allegations of corruption. He has since settled in New York, where he has become a vocal critic of the Chinese regime on social media. However, Guo has become a divisive figure in the community of exiled Chinese dissidents. He has claimed that many other dissidents living in the United States are actually secret agents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and has organized pickets to protest outside of their houses. This has led to suggestions that Guo is actually an agent of the CCP, something which he has vociferously denied.
The key to Guo’s influence in the United States is the alliance he has made with Steve Bannon, the former top Trump aide turned vocal advocate of former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud. Bannon and Guo have partnered to create the New Federal State of China, which claims to be the government in exile of mainland China; Guo also helped fund Gettr, a right-wing Twitter alternative led by Jason Miller, a top 2016 campaign Trump aide who has since joined his 2024 reelection effort. Gettr was developed out of a Chinese language social media network tied to Guo called Getome. On the eve of the 2020 election, Chinese-language media outlets and allies of Guo were the first to publish the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop at Bannon’s behest.
Bannon was even arrested on Guo’s yacht in…
Read the full article here
