“To say McConnell ‘made millions from China’ is grossly misleading.”
Amy McGrath’s latest ad was panned for its overt racism, but that wasn’t the McGrath ad’s only problem — the Washington Post fact checkers issued Amy McGrath a Three Pinocchio teardown for the ad’s “grossly misleading” claims.
Not only did McGrath follow the well trodden path of failed candidates before her who chose to promote the raw wounds of prejudice when confronted with obvious electoral defeat, but McGrath also followed these failed candidates down the path of a false attack that’s been proven false time and again.
Here’s what the Washington Post had to say about Amy McGrath’s latest attempt to deceive Kentuckians:
Amy McGrath’s Spurious Claim That McConnell ‘Made Millions From China’
“‘His trade deals made China richer, their military stronger. They’re spying on us and they didn’t stop the coronavirus. Oh, and Mitch made millions from China,’ the narrator of McGrath’s ad says. […]
“The story of how McConnell got rich has nothing to do with Chinese trade deals, spycraft or the coronavirus. He simply married into a higher tax bracket. Other than the inheritance in 2007, no record shows McConnell or his wife receiving a financial windfall from the Chaos.
“The last time McConnell sought reelection, in 2014, Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes charged that he ‘quadrupled his net worth on the backs of hard-working Kentuckians that can’t afford it’ — a reference to the inheritance. In 2018, a Republican candidate in West Virginia ran ads dubbing McConnell ‘Cocaine Mitch’ because of the connection to Foremost Group. His evidence? The inheritance. The Lincoln Project, a media-savvy group of disaffected Republicans running ads of its own this year, recently received Three Pinocchios for suggesting that McConnell got rich through government service. The evidence? Yes, you guessed it, the inheritance. […]
“We’ve given these ads Three Pinocchios before and will do so again. McConnell became rich because he married into a wealthy family with a profitable business. Specifically, his wife, Elaine Chao, received an inheritance from her mother.
“To say McConnell ‘made millions from China’ is grossly misleading. American companies do not become less American by establishing successful shipping routes in the South China Sea.
“Three Pinocchios”
