Best Of: MAGA's Chinese Billionaire / Sports Journalist Jemele Hill

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🗓️ 29 October 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

New Yorker writer Evan Osnos traces the path of Guo Wengui, a billionaire who fled China and insinuated himself into the MAGA inner circle. But his true allegiances are suspect.

Maureen Corrigan reviews The Year of the Puppy, by Alexandra Horowitz.

Former co-anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter, Jemele Hill, faced criticism in 2017 for calling Trump a white supremacist. In her memoir, Uphill, she talks about her career and her life growing up in Detroit. She spoke with contributor Tonya Mosley.

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0:00.0	From WHY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:05.0	I'm Dave Davies, InfateriGros.
0:07.8	Today, the strange story of a wealthy businessman who fled China and found a home with Steve
0:13.1	Bannon and Donald Trump's accolades in the United States.
0:17.0	In a new article, New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos reconstructs the curious journey of
0:21.5	Guo Wen Gui, who moved to New York, bought a huge yacht and a fifth avenue penthouse, and
0:27.1	began a media platform with Bannon to propagate MAGA messaging and condemn China's communist
0:32.7	party.
0:34.2	Also we'll hear from sports journalist Jamel Hill.
0:37.0	When she was co-host of ESPN Sports Center, she ignited a controversy by calling Donald
0:42.0	Trump a white supremacist in a tweet.
0:44.7	She's now a contributing writer for the Atlantic, and she has a new memoir.
0:49.0	Anne Maureen Corrigan will review the year of the puppy, the new book from Alexandra
0:53.0	Horowitz, author of the best seller inside of a dog.
0:57.8	This is Fresh Air Weekend.
0:59.2	I'm Dave Davies, InfateriGros.
1:01.9	In June of 2020, conservative broadcaster and Donald Trump-acolades Steve Bannon stood
1:07.6	on a boat in New York Harbor with a wealthy Chinese businessman for an unusual, live-streamed
1:13.0	news conference.
1:14.7	Bannon and Guo Wen Gui announced the formation of an alternative government for the people
1:18.7	of China, called the new federal state of China.
1:22.5	The news conference ended with Guo enthusiastically chanting a slogan condemning the Chinese communist
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