Despite his strong rhetoric condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s trade practices, Rep. Byron Donalds’s (R-FL) gubernatorial campaign has accepted $450,000 in donations from a refrigerant importer that is partially owned by a Chinese state-controlled enterprise and stands accused of harming domestic businesses by flooding the market with cheap Chinese imports and avoiding import duties.

“Everybody knows that China not only has cheated in any trade negotiation … that’s ever occurred, but they also cheat when it comes to actually going through the proper channels on how trade is supposed to be handled,” Donalds, the Republican front-runner in Florida’s gubernatorial primary, said in April.