Court Docs Link Trump Jr. and Navarro to Chinese Financier

Donald Trump Jr. and ex-White House trade advisor Peter Navarro appear on a list of potential defendants in a court filing Wednesday related to the sprawling bankruptcy case of a right-wing Chinese businessman accused of bilking anti-communist dissidents.

The court-appointed trustee overseeing the estate of Guo Wengui—also known as Ho Wan Kwok, Miles Guo, and Miles Kwok—identified the former first son and the conspiracy-spouting fringe economist among a large number of individuals and entities they plan to serve with legal papers under a proposed court order. Wengui, who declared bankruptcy in Feb. 2022 after getting stuck with $134 million in fines related to his yacht, has long played sugar daddy to ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and bankrolled the ill-starred conservative Twitter alternative Gettr.

But the putative billionaire, who has sought asylum in the U.S. after fleeing corruption allegations from Beijing, had no previously known ties to Trump Jr. and Navarro. The bankruptcy case is separate from the ongoing fraud proceeding against the businessman related to $1 billion he allegedly misappropriated from his supporters in the diaspora.

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