3/8/19: Recent polls have Trump in a bit of a hole, with only 43.4% of Americans approving of the job he’s doing. Part of his problem is that most Americans believe he’s a liar.
Mainly because he is.
Only 35% said Trump.
His former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is now a convicted felon, headed for jail. But when asked in a Quinnipiac poll, who they believed more after Cohen’s recent testimony before Congress, 50% of Americans said Cohen
Only 35% said Trump.
In fact, 65% of Americans said they believed Trump is not honest, and 64% think he committed crimes before taking office. Almost half, 45%, believe he has committed crimes since being elected.
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Sex trafficking of foreign women.
IN NEWS YOU CANNOT MAKE UP, it turns out that Li Yang, who founded the “spa” where Robert Kraft got busted for soliciting prostitution, and who is suspected of running similar spas to this day, has friends in the very highest places. She attended this year’s Super Bowl party hosted by…President Trump! (See: 2/23-24/19.)
Here’s how the Miami Herald describes the enterprising Ms. Yang, who we now know has appeared in photographs with just about every member of the First Family, save Barron.
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The president with Yang, lower right. |
The woman who snapped the blurry
Super Bowl selfie with the president was Li Yang, 45, a self-made entrepreneur
from China who started a chain of Asian day spas in South Florida. Over the
years, these establishments — many of which operate under the name Tokyo Day
Spas — have gained a reputation for offering sexual services.
Yang’s family still owns several
South Florida spas. The family’s Tokyo Day Spa branches have attracted the
attention of at least two local police agencies over allegations of
prostitution, and are discussed online as places where men can pay for sexual extras.
No doubt, Ms. Yang is facing added scrutiny as the story unfolds. In 2016 a massage therapist at one Tokyo Day Spa location told police that employees “were selling sex and said management encouraged the behavior.”
A commenter on an internet site explained the allure of such places. “If you’re just wanting to get a ‘rub and tug,’ this might be one of the best places in West Palm Beach,” he said in describing the local Tokyo Day Spa.
Until 2016, Yang had shown little interest in politics.
Records show she hadn’t voted in a decade. But something about Trump appealed.
She and her family began to donate to campaigns, $42,000 to Trump Victory, a
PAC, and $16,000 to the Trump run for office. Soon she was showing up
at GOP venues, getting photographed with leaders of the right, attracted
perhaps by the “family values” principles espoused so fervently by Trump
and his hypocritical kind. At many of the gatherings, Ms. Yang “carries a
rhinestone encrusted MAGA clutch purse.”
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Yang with Don Jr. |
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Yang with Eric Trump. |
Her business history indicates conservatives might want to think twice about who they’re hanging with. After Mr. Kraft was arrested for soliciting prostitution at the Orchids of Asia “spa” in Jupiter, Florida, reporters started digging. True. Yang sold her Tokyo Day Spa location in 2013 and it became Orchids of Asia.
The Herald explains:
Although the name and ownership
of the location have changed, the decor has not. A photo from a Tokyo Day Spa Yelp review shows the same couch, the
same wall hanging and the same faux plant as now.
“Used to be known as Tokyo Day
Spa and Massage – most of the same girls still work there,” a Yelp reviewer
wrote of Orchids of Asia in 2013.
So, unless you are singularly dull, you should catch the
drift.
There’s more to the Herald report and similar stories on the Kraft prostitution bust. But the foundation is always the same: sex-trafficking of foreign women. If you’re interested in how an awful system thrives, the Herald lays it out, from schools for masseuses that offer a front of legitimacy, to websites like “rubmaps.com” where customers describe experiences, good and bad. As the Herald explains, one commenter had this to say: “‘your mileage may vary’ at Tokyo Day Spas, meaning sex may not be available depending on the therapist. ‘Been here many times, some play, some don’t,’ a man wrote in 2016. But others raved. ‘I had one of those toe curling experiences [emphasis added],’ a reviewer said.”
So, that’s where we stand with Ms. Yang. We know she attended Trump’s inauguration. We know there’s a picture of Yang standing beside Kellyanne Conway, a nightmare in itself.
We know this:
In September 2018, Yang received
a personalized note from the president and first lady. It read: “Thank you for
your friendship and dedication to our cause. Leaders like you in Florida are the key to fulfilling our bold agenda
to Make America Great Again!”
Yang has not been charged in the investigation. Hua Zhang, to
whom she sold her spa in 2013, and where the same girls still work, has been. “Zhang was charged with racketeering and
running a house of prostitution and has pleaded not guilty.”
BLOGGER’S NOTE (9/24/20): It pays to have tons of
money and friends in high places. The case against Kraft is dropped after videos of sex acts allegedly involving Kraft and
two dozen other johns are thrown out by a judge.
Flaws in the warrant.
“Individuals with
significant means have the ability to hire the best lawyers and investigators
to dissect every decision point made by law enforcement to find a weak spot,”
the prosecutor in the case explained, “and then exploit it to achieve an
acquittal or a dismissal.”
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