@earl-of-trumps said
If Elaine Chao is an heiress to a shipping magnate, they certainly left that out of her bio. It says her father was a doctor that escaped communist China in 1949 and her mother was simply listed as "Mrs". Her father came to America and took 3 years before he could get his wife and three daughters including Elaine, to America, settling in New York,
Elaine is a very nice looking woman, degreed from Harvard. She also is in Trump's cabinet.
"her father, James Chao, founded Foremost Group, a shipping, trading, and finance company now run by Elaine’s sister Angela Chao. While the company is based in New York, its fleet is, per the Times, “overwhelmingly focused on China,” with roughly 72% of the raw materials it has shipped since early 2018 going to China, cargo that “helps feed” Beijing’s “industrial machine, which manufactures steel products that are a point of dispute in the deepening trade war between” China and the U.S.
The company reportedly constructs almost all its vessels in state-owned shipyards in China, some with loans from the Chinese government."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/elaine-chao-china-trip-foremost
And:
"In 2008 her father gave the couple a gift of as much as $25 million, while 13 members of the Chao family, including Foremost CEO Angela Chao, have given more than $1 million to McConnell’s campaigns and to PACs tied to him."
Guess that's all part of the Donald's "draining the swamp".