{"id":2001741,"date":"2023-08-15T19:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T23:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yellen-admits-to-eating-magic-mushrooms-in-china\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T23:22:47","slug":"yellen-admits-to-eating-magic-mushrooms-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yellen-admits-to-eating-magic-mushrooms-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellen confesses to consuming &#8216;magic mushrooms&#8217; in China."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyellen-admits-to-eating-magic-mushrooms-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2001741&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen&#8217;s\u200c Dining Adventure in China<\/h2>\n<p>Treasury\u200c Secretary\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/janet-yellen\">Janet Yellen<\/a> served up some laughs \u2014 \u2062as\u200d well\u200b some concerns \u2014\u2064 in talking about her experience dining on a dish with hallucinogenic mushrooms\u200d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/china\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/15\/business\/janet-yellen-magic-mushrooms-china\/index.html\">interview on \u2064Monday<\/a>, CNN\u2019s Erin Burnett pressed Yellen to talk \u2064about her experience eating\u2062 \u201cmagic mushrooms\u201d\u200b with a group of\u200b people\u2062 at a\u200d Beijing \u2064restaurant earlier\u2062 this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe person who had arranged our dinner did the order and there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-treasury-sec-admits-she-ate-magic-mushrooms-during-china-visit\/\" title=\"Biden's Treasury Secretary Confesses to Consuming Magic Mushrooms in China.\">delicious mushroom dish<\/a>.\u2063 I was not aware\u2062 that these\u2063 mushrooms had hallucinogenic\u2063 properties. I learned that later,\u201d \u200bYellen said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Treasury\u200d Secretary Janet \u2062Yellen explains eating a dish that contained \u2063\u201cmagic \u200dmushrooms\u201d on \u200bher \u200brecent trip to China:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a delicious mushroom dish. I was not aware \u200cthat these \u200cmushrooms had hallucinogenic properties.\u200d I learned \u200dthat later.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WFRe92hHT8\">pic.twitter.com\/WFRe92hHT8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount)\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1691528097047232512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An amused\u200b Burnett asked Yellen if she had any visions, perhaps\u2062 when\u2063 she was sleeping. Through a fit of giggles, Yellen insisted that she did\u2063 not start tripping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read\u2062 that if \u2063the mushrooms\u200d are cooked properly, which\u200b I\u2019m\u200b sure \u200dthey were at this very good restaurant, that they have no impact,\u201d the secretary\u200c said. \u201cBut all of \u2063us enjoyed the mushrooms \u2062\u2014 the restaurant and\u200d none of us \u2063felt\u2062 any ill effects \u2062from having eaten them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some people \u2063reacted\u2063 to the exchange on\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> with glee and humor \u2014 including NPR correspondent David Gura\u200d making a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgura\/status\/1691509934683312129\">economics joke<\/a> \u2064about how the \u201ceffects were transitory\u201d \u200b\u2014 while others expressed\u2064 uneasiness \u2062or ridiculed the Biden administration\u200d official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Biden cabinet\u200c member was served hallucinogenic \u200dmushrooms\u2063 in China? Can\u2019t make\u200b this stuff up,\u201d \u2063Sen. John\u200c Cornyn (R-TX) \u2064said in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCornyn\/status\/1691506370564988931\">a\u200b post\u200b to X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntelligence officers use psychedelics to compromise their targets,\u201d Eric Garland, a self-described geopolitical analyst with nearly 300,000 followers on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericgarland\/status\/1691517767474634753\">said<\/a> in a post. \u201cIf they targeted Janet\u200c Yellen as\u200c part of an\u2062 operation, diplomatic punishments should be \u200cswift \u2062and \u200charsh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve Guest, a conservative commentator, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1691441249671118848\">observed<\/a>, \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s America: The Treasury Secretary gets booked on CNN to talk about shrooming \u200cwhile in China,\u201d\u2062 while the Republican\u2064 National Committee\u2019s Jake Schneider <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobkschneider\/status\/1691446055169064960\">quipped<\/a>, \u201cThis is a very serious administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK\u2063 HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE \u2062APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yellen \u200bmade the trip \u200dto China in\u200c early July. \u200cShe ate at the restaurant \u2014 part of a Yunnan food\u2062 chain called Yi Zuo Yi Wang \u2014 shortly after landing in Beijing, according to\u200d CNN, which\u200c also <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/travel\/yunnan-cuisine-beijing-restaurant-mushrooms-yellen-intl-hnk\/index.html\">reported<\/a> \u200d the restaurant later posted to the Chinese social media platform Weibo to share that staff said Yellen \u201cloved\u201d the mushrooms \u201cvery\u2063 much.\u200d She ordered four portions \u200dof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/janet-yellen-had-four-orders-of-potentially-hallucinogenic-dish-does-this-explain-her-strange-behavior\/\" title=\"Did Janet Yellen's Hallucinogenic Meal Cause Her Odd Actions?\">jian shou qing<\/a> (a Yunnan \u200cwild mushroom species). It was an extremely magical\u200b day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During her interview with the secretary, Burnett noted the chain\u2019s wild mushroom dish has \u2063been selling\u2064 out in locations around\u200d China\u2062 ever\u2063 since Yellen\u2019s meal at\u200b the restaurant \u201cset off a frenzy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While in China, Yellen set her focus on discussing issues such as economic competition, \u200bnational security, and\u200c \u201cclimate finance.\u201d By \u2063the end, she insisted the \u200ctalks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/08\/janet-yellen-china-talks-00105311\">were \u201cproductive.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Yellen\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/treasury-secretary-ripped-for-bowing-to-chinese-official\">garnered some\u2063 criticism<\/a> \u200dwith the \u200cemergence of video footage \u200dshowing her bowing \u2063repeatedly to a \u200cChinese official during the \u200cvisit to Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen shared amusing anecdotes, along with a few worries, about her encounter dining on hallucinogenic mushrooms in China. 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