{"id":20699,"date":"2024-03-18T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T00:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20699"},"modified":"2024-03-18T17:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T00:04:49","slug":"comrade-chuck-schumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/03\/18\/comrade-chuck-schumer\/","title":{"rendered":"Comrade Chuck Schumer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This past Lunar (AKA \u201cChinese\u201d) New Year, New York Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/james_t_quinn\/status\/1762217358108598733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> attended acelebration with <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1762217358108598733.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Communist Chinese officials<\/a>, including one associated with China\u2019s extraterritorial \u201cpolice stations\u201d, including in New York City, while he <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Qvbe6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">waved the Communist Chinese flag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New: Senator Chuck Schumer waved the People&#39;s Republic of China flag onstage at a Lunar New Year event on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>He and other top New York politicians appeared onstage at a rally, preceding an annual parade in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown, alongside Huang Ping, a hard-line Chinese\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/seqf0RhOl0\">pic.twitter.com\/seqf0RhOl0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jimmy Quinn (@james_t_quinn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/james_t_quinn\/status\/1762217358108598733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And Comrade Chuck <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/a3h9M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wasn\u2019t alone<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer waved the People\u2019s Republic of China flag, just moments after the organizers of a Lunar New Year event blasted China\u2019s national anthem in the middle of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSchumer\u2019s apparent willingness to wave the flag of a foreign authoritarian government calls attention to the strange nature of the New York political world\u2019s engagements with community events that feature a pro-Beijing twist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe and other top New York politicians appeared onstage at a rally, preceding an annual parade in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown, alongside Huang Ping, a hard-line Chinese ambassador who publicly denies Beijing\u2019s human-rights abuses, and Wu Xiaoming, a senior consular official linked to China\u2019s secret police station in New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn addition to Schumer, New York governor Kathy Hochul, NYC mayor Eric Adams, and several New York legislators and city council members sat in the parade grandstand for the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cToward the end of the event, a singer performed the \u2018Star-Spangled Banner,\u2019 followed by the \u2018March of the Volunteers,\u2019 China\u2019s national anthem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAt one point during the latter song, Schumer appeared to put his hand over his heart, before quickly removing it. Then, someone in the crowd attempted to hand Hochul \u2014 who waved China\u2019s flag at last year\u2019s event \u2014 an American and a Chinese flag. She appeared not to accept them. Instead, Schumer grabbed the two flags and vigorously waved them for a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unsurprisingly, this <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/05\/07\/comrade-dick-durbin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">isn\u2019t the first time<\/a> this has happened with a sitting U.S. Senator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Between Democrats like these and Blame America First pro-TikTok Senators on the right, one has to ask just how many U.S. Senators the Communist Chinese have?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/chuck-schumer-communist-chinese-flag.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20700\" \/><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Comrade Chuck Schumer\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"This past Lunar (AKA 'Chinese') New Year, New York Senator Chuck Schumer attended acelebration with Communist Chinese officials, including one associated with China\u2019s extraterritorial 'police stations', including in New York City, while he waved the Communist Chinese flag.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/chuck-schumer-communist-chinese-flag.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This past Lunar (AKA \u201cChinese\u201d) New Year, New York Senator Chuck Schumer attended acelebration with Communist Chinese officials, including one associated with China\u2019s extraterritorial \u201cpolice stations\u201d, including in New York City, while he waved the Communist Chinese flag. 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