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🗓️ 1 May 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week, we take a hard look at the strange, swampy saga of President Donald Trump and a Florida spa entrepreneur.
Li “Cindy” Yang is the former owner of the Jupiter, Florida, massage parlor where New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft was busted in February for allegedly soliciting prostitution. (She sold this location around 2012, and Kraft has denied the allegations.) Yang landed in the news after the Miami Herald published photos of Yang posing with President Trump and other Republican notables.
But there was more to the story. In 2017, Yang and her husband had formed a business, GY US Investments LLC, that offered clients opportunities to “interact with the president…and other political figures” at Mar-a-Lago.
Host Jamilah King chats with Dan Schulman, our deputy bureau chief in Washington D.C., and Dan Friedman, our foreign influence and national security reporter, about what know so far.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Jamila King in San Francisco. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, Today the strange dramatic saga of President Trump and the Florida Spa |
| 0:22.0 | entrepreneur how Mother Jones broke a seat and the Florida spa entrepreneur. |
| 0:23.0 | How Mother Jones broke a series of stories about the Maralago Mystery Woman |
| 0:28.0 | and her connections to the Chinese government. |
| 0:31.0 | And what it means about threats to national security at the place Trump |
| 0:35.0 | calls the Winter White House. The journalists behind the investigation are here to |
| 0:40.3 | tell you how they did it. Stick around. A Florida massage parlor owner has been selling Chinese execs access to Trump at Marlago. |
| 1:06.8 | That was the headline Mother Jones ran on March 9th this year. |
| 1:11.5 | And the story was a strange swampy saga. |
| 1:19.0 | At its center, so far at least, is a 45-year-old political donor snapping selfies with Republican power |
| 1:26.2 | brokers and Donald Trump himself. |
| 1:29.4 | And her business offering to sell Chinese clients access to Trump and his family. |
| 1:40.2 | So to explain this story, here are the Dans. |
| 1:43.5 | Dan Schulman is our deputy bureau chief in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:47.4 | and Dan Friedman are foreign influence and national security reporter. |
| 1:51.7 | Welcome to the Mother Jones podcast, Dan's. |
| 1:54.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:55.0 | Thanks. |
| 1:56.0 | So first, tell our listeners how Mother Jones started digging into this story. |
| 2:01.0 | It involves the massage parlor where New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft allegedly |
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