North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, who political insiders say has risen to one of the top slots on President Trump’s vice presidential shortlist, has an over 20-year relationship with Bill Gates worth more than $1 billion.
As Doug Burgum has gone from relative obscurity to being a national political figure and potential vice presidential nominee, the donor class has reportedly flocked to the North Dakota Governor, who worked for Bill Gates at Microsoft after selling his software company to the “vaccine”-peddling billionaire for $1.1 billion worth of stock.
After his 2001 sale of Great Plains Software, Burgum worked at Microsoft as a senior vice president until 2007, and nine years later, he was elected Governor of North Dakota, and received at least $100,000 worth of campaign contributions from his old friend Bill Gates.
Gates went on to spend time visiting with Governor Burgum in North Dakota and eventually purchased a large amount of land there, much to the chagrin of many North Dakotans.
Years down the road, during Burgum’s short-lived 2024 Presidential campaign, he received over $500,000 from Bill Gates’ Microsoft, a corporation generally known for its left-wing leanings.
He also received $4 million from Big Pharma corporation Abbott Laboratories, a prolific PCR Covid test producer and a close ally of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Doug Burgum’s billion-dollar relationship with Bill Gates surfaced during National File’s investigation into Burgum’s background and political record. This investigation also revealed that Burgum supported a Chinese Communist Party-run corporation’s attempt to purchase and develop land in proximity to a US Air Force base in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Much like Bill Gates, the Chinese Communist Party has gone on an American land-buying spree, including in Doug Burgum’s North Dakota, and according to years of public statements and local media reports, Burgum was happy to accommodate them, until it became unpopular nationally.
As National File reported:
Doug Burgum initially supported a communist Chinese company’s plan to build a $700 million corn mill in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Grand Forks, the state’s third-largest city, is just 16 miles from the Grand Forks Air Force Base, where the military formerly stored nuclear weapons.
Burgum called the Chinese effort, which became known as the “Fufeng Project” and included the purchase of American land in North Dakota, a “huge opportunity” for North Dakota and the community of Grand Forks.
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Despite his early support of the “Fufeng Project,” Burgum flip-flopped on the issue as he ran for the GOP nomination for President, and now, as he jockeys for a possible Trump VP slot, he’s doubling down, and even claiming that he never supported the Fufeng Project, which was officially shut down in 2023 thanks to widespread opposition from concerned North Dakotans and public officials.
In addition to the people of North Dakota, the Fufeng Project was opposed by the United States Air Force and members of Congress from multiple states, who cited national security concerns.
Chinese land purchases in the US, which have raised serious alarms in recent years, are related to the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative for global economic dominance. Frequently, American lands sought by the communist Chinese are in proximity to military bases and other secure locations, like the Grand Forks Air Force Base, for instance.
Elsewhere, China has begun what resemble full-fledged colonization projects, constructing large-scale Chinese industry and surrounding communities in Africa and South America, among other regions.