Undeniable Boasberg Communist Connections Finally Surface – Hosted Communist Propaganda Org’s Events 9 Times, 6 as FISA Judge
The federal judge who has become the face of opposition to President Donald Trump has long-running ties to an exchange program with the United States’ most powerful global rival.
Judge James Boasberg, chief justice for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has been a thorn in the Trump administration’s side since the president returned to the White House in 2025.
But years before that, he was playing host to an organization with ties to the Chinese Communist Party even while serving on a court privy to some of the United States’ most sensitive information, according to documents publicized by a conservative journalist Thursday.
Natalie Winters is an investigative journalist and executive editor of “War Room,” the podcast hosted by Steve Bannon, who served briefly as chief strategist in Trump’s first-term White House.
In a Substack piece published Thursday, she detailed Boasberg’s ties to the China-United States Exchange Foundation.
The name sounds anodyne, but its activities are suspicious enough that the foundation was the subject of a November 2025 letter to Columbia University from the chairman of the House Select Committee on China, asking Columbia to end its ties with the group because it is part of a Chinese government system known as “United Front” — a propaganda effort committed to advancing the causes of the Chinese Communist Party.
It was founded in 2008 by Tung Chee-hwa, whom Winters described as “a vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a central institution in the CCP’s United Front system.”
Boasberg served as a host for a CUSEF program involving Chinese exchange students studying law over nine years, Winters reported — six of those years while he was also serving as a member of the special court established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that decides on legal questions in investigations involving super-sensitive national security matters.
(Most Americans might remember that it was faulty FISA court-approved surveillance that helped fuel the years-long investigation into Trump’s alleged “collusion” with Russia that ultimately ended with a finding that Democratic-led accusations about that collusion were groundless.)
Winters published plenty of documentation to back up her findings, including a 2024 program that described Boasberg as a “9X host.”