Politico headline reads "Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China — and the loan is due soon".

Here's why that headline and the framing of this story are misleading: (thread)

cc: @politico
cc: @JackPosobiec https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475
Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China — and the loan is due soon

The president's financial dealings with the state-owned bank complicate his attacks on Biden.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475
Blue check-mark twitter activists are latching on to this as a "gotcha" for Trump. They're trying to create an equivalence between this story and Biden's connections to China...
This is probably why Politico didn't mention a key point in the story until after over 700 words and 14 paragraphs were written: Trump doesn't control the finances of the building in question.
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