EXPOSED: Gutless Gutmann’s History of Hating Donald Trump, Supporting Liberals and Outsourcing to China
Shane Trejo
|
Opposition to the “woke-ness” of the Left is allowing liberals and anti-Trumpers to launder their beliefs as conservative, and a noteworthy example of this subversive phenomenon is Andrew Gutmann, U.S. House candidate in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District.
Gutmann was promoted to national prominence in 2021 for his letter repudiating the Brearley School, an exclusive Manhattan all-girls prep school, where his daughter was once enrolled, over their ridiculous and excessive DEI policies.
After issuing his letter and removing his daughter from the elitist prep school, Gutmann was elevated to national prominence. He received gushing publicity from Murdoch-owned media organs such as Fox News and the New York Post. Neoconservative Ben Shapiro’s outlet The Daily Wire praised Gutmann for his “withering, no-holds-barred critique” eviscerating “half a dozen sacred cows of wokeness in rapid succession,” and suddenly a star was born.
But before Conservative Inc. decided to astroturf his political profile, Gutmann’s remarks show that he is a hardened liberal ideologue with a marked distaste for President Donald Trump’s populist, America First brand of politics. Gutmann attempted to scrub evidence his palpable disdain for Trump from the internet before his Congressional run.
“Like many who live in one of the elitist bastions of the United States (New York City, in my case), I am disappointed and dismayed by the election of such a simple-minded, volatile and enormously unqualified man as president,” Gutmann wrote in a since-deleted post on a blog titled “EconomicsFAQ” in Nov. 2016 following Trump’s election.
Gutmann continued to state that “we must fight the bigotry, racism and exclusionary tendencies of Trump” because they will not “make America great again,” contemplating the notion of supporting “moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans,” A.K.A. the Uniparty or even “a viable third-party” to thwart Trump.
While Trump has certainly won over skeptics since his election in Nov. 2016, the fact that Gutmann continued to demonstrate animus toward Trump even into 2020, well after it was clear to all reasonable people that fears about Trump’s racism failed to materialize. Showing the depths of his Trump derangement, Gutmann even self-censored a post because he happened to use a quote that was used in a speech by President Trump.
“I originally published the following very short piece on March 22 with the intention to expand it significantly. However, a few days later, President Trump gave a press conference using the same words, “the cure is worse than the disease.” Having not had time to explain my thoughts further and not wanting to get lumped in with Trump’s line of reasoning (or lack thereof), I pulled the post,” Gutmann wrote as a forward to a blog he briefly pulled and then republished for fear of being compared to Trump.
Gutmann remained unregistered to vote during the crucial election of 2020, and only deleted his anti-Trump posts after it became obvious that he needed to hide his opinions to protect his future political ambitions. In fact, no records exist showing Gutmann ever voted or was even registered to vote during his years in New York or New Jersey, where he lived his entire life before carpetbagging down to Florida in late 2022.
Gutmann was never politically active throughout his entire adult life before giving several donations to New York City Democrat Maud Maron, with his latest donation coming in 2022. Maron was an enthusiastic supporter of Bernie Sanders for President in 2016 before attempting to remake herself as a “moderate” to embark on her failed Congressional run.
Gutmann’s support for liberalism is so entrenched that he even founded the Institute for Liberal Values (ILV), which he admitted on a Ricochet podcast in Nov. 2021. The ILV was founded to “build and strengthen liberal values, promoting democratic, diverse, and pluralistic societies across the world.”
Additionally, Gutmann’s business history shows why he is monetarily incentivized to oppose President Trump’s economic agenda. In his Columbia University business school profile, Gutmann was described as being “involved in his family’s international chemical business, where he was involved in all aspects of Basstech International, including the evaluation of strategic acquisitions.”
Basstech International has a powerful subsidiary in China, Qingdao BassTech Co. Ltd, that acts as a facilitator for China’s economic stranglehold over the U.S. On their official website, Gutmann’s firm brags about their cooperation “with hundreds of factories in twenties provinces in China,” boasts about gaining “the trust of many foreign companies,” and becoming “their sourcing or marketing agent in China” while enticing firms to outsource their business to China.
“It is assured that QBC could be the perfect partner in your business with China. Let the one who knows China best to create the stable, reliable and efficient supply chain for you; let the one who understand the Chinese most to settle the problems and headaches for you. Whatever you need from China, we are ready here to support you!” Qingdao BassTech states on their website.
Basstech International has been responsible for millions of pounds of chemical imports from China to the U.S. from 2006 to 2023, according to figures from Import Genius.
Gutmann’s shady business connections continue into his dealings in the nation of Seychelles, a notorious tax haven. Gutmann had his Chinese firm incorporated in Seychelles presumably to skirt paying taxes. Gutmann’s agent on the incorporation documents was Mossack Fonseca, a disgraced firm that was shuttered after its associates were indicted by the Department of Justice on charges of wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering and other misdeeds in 2018.
“For decades, the defendants, employees and a client of global law firm Mossack Fonseca allegedly shuffled millions of dollars through offshore accounts and created shell companies to hide fortunes,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoff Berman said after the indictments were announced.
Despite the company’s massive size and scope, Basstech International also benefitted from $739,512 in PPP loans that were meant for small businesses. There is no record of these loans ever being repaid:
Gutmann made it crystal clear in an EconomicsFAQ blog post that he is an apologist for the globalist status quo in trade policy that has enriched his family for decades.
“We must not turn our backs on global trade, but recognize, and acknowledge two truths. Yes, trade will always have negative effects on a small portion of the population (while having less obvious, but more significant positive effects on a larger portion of the population). And yes, there has been an excess of outsourcing, offshoring and foreign trade over recent years. But this is due to the prevalence of easy money and crony capitalism, not because of free market forces,” Gutmann wrote.
“We must not give up on global trade, if for no other reason than abandoning trade will lead to war (though there are many other good reasons in favor of trade),” he added.
On his official campaign website, Gutmann makes no mention of President Trump and brands himself as “a political outsider who is running for Congress out of a sense of duty” while touting his professional bona fides as a “research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors” before becoming an investment banker and career coach at the Columbia School of Business. Does Gutmann’s history of serving the central bank in Washington D.C., Wall Street megacorps and Ivy League academia really sound like the resume of a plucky outsider – or is a deception being played on Florida voters hungry for a political shake-up?
True conservatives must be on the lookout for the Uniparty establishment woke-washing establishment hacks as phony upstart leaders within the Republican Party. Gutmann has far too many red flags to be trusted as a member of Congress in the reoriented America First Republican Party helmed by President Trump.
Share: