If you are politically bypassing export controls you can ship billions of dollars of gear through normal channels. https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/11122026wydenneal...
Your theory is like pointing at a story about a guy holding up a 7/11 in March 2009 and blaming it on Bernie Madoff.
Bypassing export controls is not this simple. In this case, it was the commerce secretary who slow rolled enforcement, likely due to some form of quid pro quo knowing the people involved and even extending to the $25 million ballroom donation..
They had to get around other Federal oversight that was trying to enforce the export controls. Bessent clarified as much on CNBC earlier today.
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