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Congressman who oft attacks China does business with it, selling t-shirts to U.S. soldiers

by Natalia Mittelstadt and John Solomon

U.S. Rep. Pat Fallon, the freshman Texas congressman, wasted no time making his mark in Congress as a China hawk. Just a few weeks on the job, Fallon sent a letter to President Joe Biden warning the Democrats’ Green New Deal would make America dangerously reliant on “countries with no environmental or labor standards like Communist China, Russia, and the Congo.”

Just 10 days after the letter, though, the Recon Sportswear company that Fallon and his wife Susan have owned for more than two decades received 75 containers of baseball caps from the Yiwu Qimo Clothing Company in Zhejiang province, China, according to U.S. import records reviewed by Just the News.

The shipment, and scores more like it, unmask a well-kept secret in Washington: One of the Republican Party’s fiercest new critics of China also has done and continues to do business with that communist country. And some of that apparel ends up sold to American troops on bases like Fort Benning in Georgia and Lackland Air Force Base in Texas….


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