In Eric Branstad, The Trump Administration Has Its Own Hunter Biden Problem

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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When President Trump abruptly reversed an order penalizing the Chinese telecom company ZTE for selling to North Korea and Iran in 2018, it confused almost everyone. Why was the get-tough-on-China-president suddenly caving to their demands? As The Intercept’s Lee Fang and Mara Hvistendahl found out, the story behind Trump’s move on ZTE sheds new light on the role of lobbyists and foreign interests at the highest levels of his administration’s decision-making. And it involves a figure most Americans, even in his home state, have never heard of: Eric Branstad, son of former Iowa governor Terry Branstad.

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0:00.0	Get the hell out to vote because if I don't get Iowa, I won't believe that one.
0:05.0	I may never have to come back here again if I don't get Iowa.
0:08.7	I'll never be back. You understand that, Kim?
0:11.5	Welcome to Deconstructed. I'm Ryan Grimm, and you're listening to a Trump campaign rally
0:16.1	from Justice Week in Des Moines, Iowa.
0:18.3	I will say this, there has never been a president, has done more for farmers and rich.
0:24.3	The president took a moment during his rally, as he does, to single out a couple of friends
0:28.7	in the crowd.
0:29.7	Ambassador Terry Brandstead.
0:32.2	Terry Brandstead is the former governor of Iowa, the longest serving governor in US history,
0:39.9	in fact.
0:40.9	More recently, he was Trump's ambassador to China.
0:44.0	But the show today will focus more on his son.
0:47.4	Because his son, Eric, is even better than him, but I'm not going to talk about it.
0:50.5	And you know, a lot of fathers, they get angry if you say that, oh, I'm better than my
0:54.1	son.
0:55.1	Those are not great fathers.
0:56.1	This guy's proud.
0:57.1	His son is great.
0:58.1	He's basically unknown outside of Iowa, where he was the chair of Trump's 2016 campaign.
1:03.8	Not long ago, one of our reporters got a tip suggesting she looked into Eric.
1:07.2	I am Mara Vistendoll, and I am an investigative reporter with the intercept.
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