Elaine Chao
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Sep 11, 2026
JB WhiteHOST
and it's been a series of revelations really you know when you think about it because i promised myself then wow i personally had a failure of imagination on what was possible because i would have told you that was impossible that kind of attack and looking back it's been just in drips and drabs revelation after revelation wow Wow, we do have people in our ranks who have rationalized betraying the country.
JB WhiteHOST
I just, this Elaine Chao situation with Mitch McConnell drives me crazy.
JB WhiteHOST
Especially when I think, and having been up in D.C., knowing some of these people who are operating and have some pretty good positions or had pretty good positions in government and how they had to fucking know.
JB WhiteHOST
They had
Mike NellisHOST
I don't trust The Daily Caller as a journalistic outlet that's going to actually report the truth to us.
Mike NellisHOST
But I know a lot of people have speculated that Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, might be some sort of foreign agent or something like that.
Mike NellisHOST
Her actions in this have been really weird.
Mike NellisHOST
She literally flew off to China, didn't come home to go see her husband after he had a massive cardiac event that's kept him out of the public eye for 90 days.
Marjorie Taylor GreeneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This really irritates me.
Marjorie Taylor GreeneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Republican Party is all campaigning against communism right now.
Marjorie Taylor GreeneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What about Elaine Chao? Elaine Chao flew to China and met with the vice president just a few days after Mitch McConnell is practically died and went to the hospital.
Marjorie Taylor GreeneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So where are we going to call out a possible communist Chinese spy right there? You're calling.
Joe ConchaHOST
Once you're incapacitated, then that should be the end of it.
Joe ConchaHOST
And the worst part about all this is that family members, whether it's Dr. Jill Biden, fake doctor, whether it was whoever was within the Dianne Feinstein circle as far as her family, or Elaine Chao, a former cabinet member for President Trump in his first term, keep pushing these people forward.
Joe ConchaHOST
If you cared about your sibling, your spouse, excuse me, any capacity or sibling for that matter, we're talking brothers and sisters of these people or children, you say, get this person out of here and get them the help that they need in terms of just relaxing.
Joe ConchaHOST
They can't work anymore.
John DeatonGUEST
Have a great one, brother.
Matt GaetzHOST
Before we go, there was an interesting report we picked up in the Daily Caller, and it went through the various connections that Elaine Chao, former member of President Trump's cabinet, current wife of whatever's left of Mitch McConnell, her connections to China.
speaker_18UNKNOWN
So this Daily Caller investigation, they found that she held positions with Chinese government entities and organizations tied to the CCP.
speaker_18UNKNOWN
Mitch McConnell's wife.
Matt GaetzHOST
Wait a second.
Matt GaetzHOST
Mitch McConnell gets c- gets, uh, Elaine Chao.
Matt GaetzHOST
Eric Swalwell gets Fang Fang, and what you're saying is the rest of us get this Harry Potter looking dude [laughs] from Anthropic, and you're saying he's the Chinese plant to get us all to be afraid of our robot future?
Chris DorworthGUEST
I don't know exactly who's in cha- but I'll just tell you this much.
Billy EdPANELIST
Daily Caller News Foundation just dumped a bunch of Chinese government and state media records.
Billy EdPANELIST
Elaine Chao, who worked for both Bush and Trump...
Billy EdPANELIST
Mitch McConnell's wife since 1993 apparently really, really, really likes to eat dumplings.
Billy EdPANELIST
Is that right? No, I'm sorry.
Alpha WarriorHOST
i did i remember beetlejuice i'm thinking which character
CannConHOST
you remember when they're like waiting in the lobby and like they turn their faces they make their faces like really long don't know why but he reminds me like that face reminds me of that i don't i don't know why in in beetlejuice i anyways um so ccp officials appointed mitch mcconnell's wife to multiple government positions government positions many of which partially overlapped with her two u.s cabinet posting according to chinese government and state media reports Elaine Chao has held numerous U.S. government positions since the 80s, including serving as the Department of Labor secretary throughout W. Bush's tenure and the Department of Transportation secretary during President Trump's first term.
CannConHOST
After resigning from the Trump administration, Chao then served on the board of EV charging company ChargePoint between 2021 and 2026 and is now listed.
CannConHOST
as a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute.
CannConHOST
that's like low level
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
ai uh capability right there but
CannConHOST
yeah i mean that's that's just so when when when um when uh When Mitch McConnell first went in the hospital, there was like a lot of concern that like people were like, well, Elaine Chao still went to China like right after.
CannConHOST
And then she was like, oh, well, it was, you know, a planned thing.
Zak PaineHOST
All right.
Zak PaineHOST
Now, we got to also talk about Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao.
Zak PaineHOST
Now, I've called Elaine Chao a agent of the Chinese government on more than one occasion.
Zak PaineHOST
And apparently now, today, we have proof of that in a form that we did not have before.
Zak PaineHOST
All right.
Zak PaineHOST
Cabinet.
Zak PaineHOST
That's according to Chinese government and Chinese state media reports that have been unearthed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Zak PaineHOST
Now, you know Elaine Chao because she's married to Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell.
BenHOST
Same if I did, right? But no, no problem there.
BenHOST
So Elaine Chao held at least four Chinese government gigs, including one within the arms of a CCP intelligence agency, the Chinese documents show.
BenHOST
Is this where there's smoke, there's fire? Or is this just topical news, not the end of the world? Somewhere in between.
BenHOST
I'll let you be the decider on that.
Pierson SharpHOST
The headline is, Mitch McConnell is silent as report raises questions about his wife's Chinese government ties.
Pierson SharpHOST
So Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnell's wife, her real name is Zhao Xiaolan, and she allegedly held positions with Chinese government entities.
Pierson SharpHOST
Hold on, hold
Matt GaetzHOST
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