One of the national co-chairs of President Biden’s newly announced 2024 re-election campaign has deep and longstanding ties to China’s communist government, potentially presenting a problem for the president as analysts continue to warn of the threat that China poses to U.S. national security.
The Biden campaign announced Tuesday that former Disney and DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg will be one of its national co-chairs. Katzenberg, one of the Democrats Party’s most prolific fundraisers, and his wife donated over $1.4 million to Biden’s 2020 campaign and super PAC, according to Federal Election Commission records. The Hollywood mogul also helped Biden raise millions of additional dollars by hosting fundraisers.
Katzenberg, the Democratic kingmaker who later founded the venture capital firm WndroCo, has an extensive history with China that may prove problematic for Biden as the 2024 campaign wears on. Perhaps most infamously, when Katzenberg was at DreamWorks in 2012,…