'Clown': Ro Khanna Picks a Fight With the Wrong Guy During House Select Committee on China Hearing
It can be safely said that pretty much every Democrat in the House
and Senate is obnoxious to some degree, but if I had to rank the top
five most obnoxious, one who would easily make that list would be Rep.
Ro Khanna (CA-17).
There are a lot of reasons why, but one big one stems from his
farcical defenses of Maine Democrat Senate nominee Graham Platner
against allegations of physical abuse and controlling behavior from a
former girlfriend, proclaiming that voters should believe his accusers
and not attack them... but that they should also believe Platner,
because the man who reportedly "explicitly" sexted up to a dozen women after his November 2023 marriage had supposedly "redeemed" himself. Make it make sense.
With that in mind, we turn to a hearing
held on Thursday by the House Select Committee on China. The topic
under discussion was "China’s Economic Espionage and Subnational
Influence in the United States."
One of the Republican witnesses, State Armor
founder and CEO Michael Lucci,
was there to share his thoughts on,
among other things, the dangers of birth tourism as it relates to the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Khanna is the ranking member on
this committee, and when it was his turn to question Lucci, he
predictably trotted out the race card, digging up tweets on Lucci and
pretending that the one below made him an anti-Chinese racist.
One of the problems with Khanna's accusation, as Lucci pointed out,
was that not only is he married to a Chinese woman, but his four
children are half Chinese, and his in-laws are both Chinese:
Ro Khanna massively embarrassed himself today. Instead of discussing policy, he accused me of anti-Chinese racism.
My wife is Chinese. My 4 children are half Chinese.
Lucci
further expounded on his thoughts beyond what he said to Khanna during
the hearing in an absolutely blistering tweet, fully explaining why his
opposition to birth tourism wasn't grounded in racism but instead
national security interests:
My response to @RepRoKhanna's self-immolation in committee today:
Ro Khanna owes the American people an apology.
I've testified in 20 state capitols across the country. I've never seen a lawmaker embarrass himself like Ro Khanna did today.
Ro
is a leader of the most important committee for countering the Chinese
Communist Party. Instead of dealing in substance and policy, he pulled
out the race card in the most self-embarrassing way today while also
peddling ridiculous conspiracy theories.
The American people need real solutions to acute national security issues. Ro Khanna is burning up committee time on nonsense.
Here's
what happened: I testified today about how American state lawmakers are
being threatened, harassed and attacked by Chinese state-tied actors.
Our military installations are being closely surveilled.
Chinese-Americans are being hunted down by CCP government agents.
Critical infrastructure is being attacked.
Rep. Khanna ignored all
those threats, *including threats to fellow Democrats who are currently
sitting state lawmakers.* Honestly, I'm shocked that it did not
register with him that a Chinese company threatened a Democrat state
official. Instead, Ro dug up a tweet where I criticized CCP birth
tourism and tried to call me racist.
Of course, he completely failed.
I
oppose birth tourism schemes through which CCP military and political
leaders get U.S. citizenship for their children by giving birth in
Saipan and then raising their children loyal to the CCP in China. It's
completely crazy that we allow this. @peterschweizer has documented this
scandal in his recent book. This shouldn't be a partisan issue.
Lucci continued:
And here's the context: Ro was
angry that I criticized birth tourism as a part of my criticism of two
Chinese-Americans who attempted to bomb MacDill Air Force Base earlier
this year. According to Rep. Khanna, the bombers Alen Zheng (20) and his
sister Ann Mary Zheng (27) achieved American citizenship through some
sort of birthright program. It's unclear whether they were just born and
raised here, or if they were a part of the Saipan scheme I criticized.
But
either way, Ro Khanna was lifting up and defending people who were
basically terrorists who tried to bomb CENTCOM March 10th of this year.
Then he turned around and claimed the real problem is racists who think
birth tourism is a bad idea.
Guess who thinks birth tourism is a
bad idea? 75% of the American people according to a YouGov poll from
last year: "The group Americans are least likely to say should
automatically receive U.S. citizenship — of the nine asked about in the
survey — is children born in the U.S. to parents who are tourists
visiting the country. 25% of Americans, including 11% of Republicans and
41% of Democrats, think children born to tourists on American soil
should automatically receive U.S. citizenship."
Sorry 75% of Americans who have common sense. @RepRoKhanna thinks you're all racists!
Furthermore,
with the CCP, we are talking about cases where a child in simply born
on a U.S. pacific island and then returns to China within days, never to
see the USA again. Ro Khanna apparently thinks giving citizenship to
all of these people is a great idea, even if they are completely loyal
to the CCP, absolutely hate the USA, and have never stepped foot in our
country.
To me and to practically anyone with common sense who
analyzes the CCP, this is an obvious vector for CCP grey-zone political
warfare. For example, imagine 1,500,000 CCP loyalists raised entirely in
China voting across swing states in our elections.
Nonetheless,
Ro Khanna went on a rant to claim that I'm an anti-Chinese racist
because I oppose this obviously ridiculous birth tourism scheme.
He wrote more about his family as well:
Now here's
where Ro really jumped the shark. In his rush to conjure up a triple
bank-shot conspiracy theory to try to claim I'm a racist, he apparently
didn't do any homework to find out anything about me.
I'm married
to an immigrant from China who became an American citizen in 2019. We
have 4 wonderful children who are, of course, half Chinese by ethnicity.
Ro was ranting at the dais claiming I'm racist against my own family
simply because I oppose all the various schemes of the genocidal Chinese
Communist Party, and I hold a position on birth tourism shared by 75%
of the American people. And I bet it would be way higher than 75% if the
question was focused on the CCP Saipan scheme.
As I told Ro in
committee, calling someone an anti-Chinese racist for opposing the CCP
is like calling someone an anti-Italian racist for opposing the mafia.
Both examples are absurd. Embarrassingly so.
The American people
need real leaders and real national security solutions from both federal
and state governments. That's what we work on every day at
@StateArmor.
We don't need @RepRoKhanna wasting time be-clowning himself in committee when there is so much real work that needs to be done.
Ro
insulted me and my family today. But honestly, I don't know anyone who
puts any value in what Ro says. So that doesn't really matter. Today's
self-embarrassment was just one more part of Ro's ongoing
self-immolation that includes endorsing Nazi-sympathetic candidates,
claiming @elonmusk killed millions of kids, and being one of the most
prolific stock traders in Congress. And that's just in the last few
weeks.
But here's what matters: Ro Khanna is an elected official
who is tasked with dealing with our most urgent national security
issues, like those I brought before him and the
@ChinaSelect
committee today. And instead of engaging in a real policy discussion, he
destroyed our ability to work together on real solutions to counter the
attacks by the Chinese Communist Party.
For that, he owes the American people an apology.
My response to @RepRoKhanna's self-immolation in committee today:
Ro Khanna owes the American people an apology.
I've testified in 20 state capitols across the country. I've never seen a lawmaker embarrass himself like Ro Khanna did today.
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