Mr. Guo, who was born into a poor family in rural China and is variously said to be between 53 and 56 years old, has developed a sophisticated style with a penchant for custom-made Brioni suits and luxury cars. When Federal Bureau of Investigation agents searched Guo's assets last year, they found two mattresses worth $36,000 each, a $31,000 bed, a $140,000 piano, a Bugatti Chiron Super Sport, a Lamborghini, Several cars were recovered, including a Rolls Royce.
The exiled Guo launched a campaign to discredit China's anti-corruption chiefs ahead of a key Communist party conference in the fall of 2017. In doing so, he built up a large following both within China and the vast Chinese diaspora, but his claims of corruption among Communist party officials could not be substantiated by The New York Times.
In the same year, the Chinese government launched a campaign to repatriate Mr. Guo, but Republican National Committee finance chairman Steve Wynn and vice chairman Elliott Brody, who ran a casino resort in the Chinese territory of Macau, was nominated. This is to convince Trump.
By then, Mr. Guo had become a member of Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, and later that year began drawing prominent allies of the president into his orbit, including Mr. Bannon. there was.
As the 2020 election approached, Guo's US-based media network GTV attempted to influence the election by promoting fabricated content from Hunter Biden's laptop, the son of then-candidate Joe Biden. did. After the election, his network helped fund the so-called Million MAGA March in support of Trump. Guo also helped finance a court challenge to Biden's election victory in Georgia, Mother Jones reported.