President Biden's nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives failed to disclose to the Senate a media appearance on Chinese state TV, which may have been used as propaganda by the communist state to cover up a mass stabbing of children.
Biden's ATF nominee David Chipman appeared on a Chinese state-run media network, China Global Television Network, previously known as CCTN, in December 2012 to discuss the government's response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, one of the deadliest shootings in U.S. history that killed 28 people and injured two.
DURBIN DOUBLES DOWN SUPPORT FOR CONTROVERSIAL ATF NOMINEE CHIPMAN AS MODERATE DEMS STILL UNDECIDED. On the same day as the Newton Massacre, there was a mass stabbing of 23 children at a school in China's Henan Province.
The Chinese government reportedly ordered its central propaganda department to "Downplay" the Henan attack, including by focusing news coverage on the Newton Massacre in the U.S. According to China Digital Times, a website following social and political developments in China and run by the University of California, "The government's central propaganda department ordered all official media to downplay the Henan attack."
Chipman did not disclose his 2012 appearance on CGTN in written responses to the Senate's questions for the record.
HOUSE REPUBLICANS PUSH IMPEACHENT RESOLUTION AGAINST DAVID CHIPMAN AS DECISION LOOMS FOR MODERATE SENATE DEMS. Chipman included a disclaimer before listing his media appearances, writing, "I have done my best to identify all interviews given, including through a review of my personal files, and searches of publicly available electronic databases. Despite my searches, there may be other materials that I have been unable to identify, find, or remember."
A recent report corroborated allegations that Chipman had made racist comments about Black ATF agents up for promotion, prompting all GOP senators on the Judiciary Committee to call for a second hearing for the embattled nominee.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-atf-chipman-senate-china-propaganda
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