{"id":2502782,"date":"2025-10-24T15:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-trump-aide-rakes-in-175k-lobbying-for-ccp-link-tech-firm\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:13:41","slug":"former-trump-aide-rakes-in-175k-lobbying-for-ccp-link-tech-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-trump-aide-rakes-in-175k-lobbying-for-ccp-link-tech-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump aide rakes in $175k lobbying for CCP-link tech firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fformer-trump-aide-rakes-in-175k-lobbying-for-ccp-link-tech-firm%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=2502782&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--><p>John McEntee,a former senior aide to former President Donald Trump,earned $175,000 over three months lobbying for Tencent,a major Chinese tech company linked to teh Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Tencent was designated by the U.S. Department of Defense as a &#8220;Chinese military company&#8221; due to its connections with China&#8217;s military and its involvement in the CCP&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >military-civil fusion strategy<\/a>. McEntee, who served as Trump&#8217;s personal aide and director of Presidential Personnel Office, has used his political connections to secure this lucrative lobbying role. Despite Tencent&#8217;s designation and accusations of aiding the CCP&#8217;s security and military efforts,the company claims the classification is mistaken.McEntee has publicly dismissed concerns about the firm, suggesting the designation is politically motivated. Tencent has hired various lobbyists, including former Trump administration officials, to influence U.S. policy ahead of the 2024 election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Former top Trump aide raked in $175k in three months helping CCP-linked tech giant<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2375903\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>John McEntee, who served in multiple senior roles during the first Trump administration, received $175,000 from Chinese tech giant Tencent for his lobbying work between July and September, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/lda.senate.gov\/filings\/public\/filing\/226f6681-2766-4ad7-8739-cb46e0d6923a\/print\/\">according<\/a> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ar-aaognxo\/\" title=\"Rand Paul was right about Fauci\">recently released document<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McEntee was President Donald Trump&rsquo;s body man following his 2016 electoral victory and was later promoted to director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office while concurrently serving in a senior role within the president&rsquo;s reelection campaign. The one-time political aide has since parlayed his relationships into a lucrative lobbying deal with Tencent, which the Department of Defense, now the Department of War, designated as a &ldquo;Chinese military company&rdquo; in January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3862979\/jack-smith-testimony-before-congress-public\/\">Jack Smith asks for testimony before Congress to be public<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3861716\/middle-eastern-nations-lobbied-congress-to-shape-defense-bill-won-concessions\/\">Middle Eastern nations lobbied Congress to shape defense bill, won concessions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3858465\/democrats-paid-ski-resort-trips-campaign-funds\/\">Democrats paid for ski resort trips with campaign funds, then hit Republicans for being &lsquo;out of touch&rsquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The designation <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/USCODE-2020-title10\/html\/USCODE-2020-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap2-sec113.htm\">means<\/a> that the Pentagon has determined Tencent is either controlled by the Chinese military or that it plays a role in the Chinese Communist Party&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-tech-takes-cash-from-chinese-military-companies\/\" title=\"Big Tech takes cash from ...\">military-civil fusion&#038;rdquo<\/a>; strategy by helping the People&rsquo;s Liberation Army develop technology or otherwise serving as a defense contractor. Department of War officials have not disclosed their specific findings on the firm.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s obvious that the Biden Admin just added them to this list as part of their political vendetta against anything Chinese,&rdquo; McEntee told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;Just like with TikTok, this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-media-distorted-internal-training-documents-that-push-thoughts-on-systemic-racism-advantage\/\" title=\"Disney: Media \u2018Distorted\u2019 Internal Training Documents That Push Thoughts On \u2018Systemic Racism,\u2019 \u2018Advantage\u2019\">global entertainment company<\/a> that has done nothing wrong.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><em>Politico <\/em>first broke the news of McEntee&rsquo;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-influence\/2025\/09\/08\/trumps-ex-body-man-lands-on-k-street-00550986\">registration<\/a> as a Tencent lobbyist in September; however, his compensation for the role has so far been unreported following its disclosure in a congressional document filed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The newly released filing discloses that McEntee lobbied the Treasury Department, though he declined to list specific lobbying issues. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-adds-tencent-catl-list-chinese-firms-allegedly-aiding-beijings-military-2025-01-06\/\">Press<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c9q78wn9g8zo\">reports<\/a> published around the time of Tencent&rsquo;s Pentagon designation suggested that the move may place pressure on the Treasury Department to place sanctions on the company &mdash; a weight that Tencent&rsquo;s current status does not carry.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump marked the one-year anniversary of his victory in the 2016 elections with a tweet and a photo along with White House communications director Hope Hicks, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, White House senior adviser and the president&rsquo;s son-in-law Jared Kushner, personal aide and special assistant to the president John McEntee, and White House social media director Dan Scavino. (Screenshot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tencent has publicly disputed its inclusion on the Pentagon&rsquo;s list of Chinese military companies, calling the designation a &ldquo;mistake.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Media reports attest to Tencent&rsquo;s ties to the CCP and its security apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>Tencent has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/June%207%20Hearing_Panel%201_Elsa%20Kania_Chinese%20Military%20Innovation%20in%20Artificial%20Intelligence_0.pdf\">partnered<\/a> with the CCP on military-related artificial intelligence research, used its messaging platform to help Chinese authorities <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3290892\/top-lobbying-firm-tencent-client-pentagon-1260h-list\/\">arrest religious and political dissidents<\/a>, has been <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tencent.com\/en-us\/articles\/80043.html\">inspected<\/a> by the chairman of China&rsquo;s Central Military Commission, and has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/03\/chinas-tech-giants-pour-billions-into-xis-goal-of-common-prosperity.html\">pledged billions<\/a> to the CCP&rsquo;s &ldquo;common prosperity&rdquo; pledge. Tencent co-founder and CEO Ma Huateng, meanwhile, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/b7p9F\/https:\/\/www.tencent.com\/en-us\/investors\/board-members.html\">served<\/a> two terms as part of the CCP-controlled National People&rsquo;s Congress.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3844530\/feds-idle-chinese-money-seeps-into-american-politics\/\"><strong>CHINESE MONEY SEEPS INTO EVERY LEVEL OF AMERICAN POLITICS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>McEntee has independently attracted a large following on the Chinese social media platform TikTok and has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tik-tok-ban-republicans-trump-john-mcentee-right-stuff-dating-2023-4\">accused<\/a> American policymakers of using China as a scapegoat. He is also notable for his role in founding The Right Stuff, a dating app intended for conservatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re not going to do the hard thing, right? They&rsquo;re not going to take on Google and Facebook,&rdquo; he was quoted as saying of Republican policymakers in an April 2023 <em>Business Insider <\/em>piece. &ldquo;But they see an opportunity by using China.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tencent has also <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3470756\/chinese-military-companies-1-million-lobbying-congress-this-year\/\">retained<\/a> Daniel Marti, the Obama White House&rsquo;s intellectual property czar from 2015 to 2017, among its army of lobbyists. Chinese firms more broadly have made efforts to hire Trump alumni as lobbyists, including those working for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3388982\/ccp-linked-firms-chinese-lobbying-trump-adjacent-operatives\/\">Ballard Partners and Mercury Public Affairs<\/a>, following the 2024 presidential election, the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>previously reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Trump aide earned $175K lobbying for CCP-linked Tencent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":2502783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Love4_043024-e1761332684493.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[51019,4198,3634],"class_list":["post-2502782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-ccp-2","tag-lobbying","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Love4_043024-e1761332684493.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502786,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502782\/revisions\/2502786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}