‘Pay-for-access to Trump club’: Mar-a-Lago faces renewed ethics concerns

But follow-up coverage by the Miami Herald and Mother Jones said Yang owned a consulting business that promised Chinese investors access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago and had arranged for a group to attend a Trump fundraiser in New York in 2017, testing strict rules prohibiting foreign involvement in the US political process.

That forced a denial from the White House that Trump knew Yang, and a fierce denouncement from her lawyers of any wrongdoing.

“She is being accused of human trafficking, providing favours to Chinese politicians and businesses by selling access to the president,” attorney Michelle Merson told NBC News. “She denies everything.”

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