In the wake of jaw-dropping and quite infuriating revelations that a Foreign Service Officer working for the State Department had been caught having a secret relationship with the daughter of a key Chinese Communist Party Official, the State Department revealed that it has fired the offending RSO and is working hard to keep America safe from such subversion and related threats.
As background, a consistent tactic of the Chinese Communist Party is the use of “honeypots,” or undercover operatives to attempt to gain close connections to US officials through sexual favors. One of the most infamous examples is Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) having dated Fang Fang, a communist spy who seduced him.
This case appears to be similar, and the threat to American national security was discovered thanks to James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), which operates much as Project Veritas once did before it forced Mr. O’Keefe out over what appear to be false accusations of financial impropriety.
In any case, OMG captured undercover video footage of Daniel Choi, a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State, telling an undercover OMG operative that he had had a secret romantic relationship with the daughter of a CCP affiliate, and he admitted that the woman “could have been a spy.”
Commenting on what he knowingly did, Choi said, “I defied my government for love.” Further, he also explained on tape that he knew the woman’s father was a CCP official, saying, “Her dad was, like, either a provincial or a federal minister of education. So he’s like, straight up Communist party.”
That’s not all. The now-former State Department FSO also explained that he didn’t disclose the relationship not because he didn’t know he was supposed to, but because he thought the rules were “unfair.” He said, “I was supposed to, whatever, sort of report what I knew about her, but I always thought that was kind of unfair.”
That bombshell led to the State Department firing Choi with approval from President Donald Trump, as it announced in a statement. It said, “Today, after Presidential review and approval, the Secretary of State has terminated a Foreign Service Officer (FSO) who concealed a romantic relationship with a Chinese national with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”
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Further, the statement explained, “all officers or employees charged with implementing the foreign policy of the United States must under Article II do so under the direction and authority of the president. Failure to faithfully implement the president’s policy is grounds for professional discipline, including separation.” Such was established clearly by President Trump’s Executive Order 14211, and this appears to have been the first firing that occurred under that order.
Mr. O’Keefe, commenting on that aspect of the case in a post on X, said, “Secretary of State Marco Rubio – with President Trump’s approval – FIRES Foreign Service Officer Caught Concealing a Secret Relationship with a CCP Affiliate. The State Department confirms this marks the first time in history such a dismissal has occurred – a direct enforcement of Executive Order 14211 under the President’s Article II authority.”
Watch the State Department official make his admissions here:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video