The theory - and it's just a hypothesis - that Tucker Carlson got caught up in NSA surveillance of Guo Wengui, in connection with a Chinese guest he is having on tonight, makes some plausible sense to me. And would be in no way scandalous to the NSA.
Guo, for those who aren't familiar, is a (arguably shady) Chinese real estate developer who fled Xi's corruption crackdown, and set himself up as a "dissident" in the US, working closely with Bannon and other far-right figures.
I don't want to impugn Guo, but there's a lot of mystery and suspicion surrounding him. It's widely believe that he poses as an anti-CCP crusader, but is in fact neck deep in CCP factional politics.
My only first-hand familiarity with Guo is his sponsorship of Pangu Plaza, an infamously empty office, hotel, and retail complex built in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, which I always used an Exhibit A in talking about Chinese real estate investments gone horribly wrong.
Again, let me stress that I don't have any evidence Guo or the guest he's helped lined up on Tucker's show has any connection whatsoever to Tucker's NSA claims. But it's the least crazy explanation I've heard so far.
BTW, there was a whole episode early in Trump's term where Steve Wynn tried to personally lobby the President on behalf of the Chinese to hand Guo over to Xi.
According to @joshrogin, this prompted one of the most bizarre of Trump's many bizarre moments in the White House, with Trump yelling "We've got to get the rapist ... the guy who's raping everybody" at Bannon, referring to Guo.
Guo has also been accused of hiring mobs of people to harass other Chinese dissidents in the US. washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12…
I could cite other shady incidents. Suffice it to say that anything involving Guo needs to be taken with a strong dose of caution. These are murky waters.
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