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Hidin’ Biden and the Family Business
The Stream ^ | February 1, 2021 | Al Perrotta

Posted on 02/01/2021 11:56:16 AM PST by Heartlander

“Nepotism is the new sexy,” we wrote upon news Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter has just signed with a major modeling agency.

But Emma Emhoff has nothing on the Bidens. They’ve raised it to an art form. The Bidens are to nepotism what Anna Wintour is to fashion. If there’s ever a TED lecture on how to use your powerful position to enrich your family, Joe Biden would be giving it.

Assuming he were capable. (We’ll get to that in a minute.)

Brother Frank Makes Bank

Just ask Frank Biden, Joe’s brother. How did he celebrate Joe being elevated to Most Powerful Man in the World? By running an ad for his law firm on Inauguration Day celebrating how tight he and Joe are.

Biden is a non-attorney senior advisor for the Berman Law Group. The ad for the firm ran in the January 20th edition of the Daily Business Review. According to CNBC, it “features a photo of Frank Biden, along with quotes regarding his relationship with the incoming president and the family name.”

Frank insisted to CNBC, “I have never used my brother to obtain clients for my firm.”

That’s rich. In January of 2020, back before Joe Biden was anointed the DNC’s nominee, and the media had the okay to tear him down, ABC News did an expose on how Frank had long “leveraged his famous family name.”

In fact, ABC News quoted Biden himself from 2009 boasting his last name was a “tremendous asset.” It brought “automatic acceptance” as he sought government approvals for a charter school business he was running.

Translation: Being Joe Biden’s brother when Joe Biden was Senator and Vice President paid off big. (Did Joe get 10% of that business, too? Remember, he was...

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1 posted on 02/01/2021 11:56:16 AM PST by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander
The Bidens are to nepotism what Anna Wintour is to fashion. If there’s ever a TED lecture on how to use your powerful position to enrich your family, Joe Biden would be giving it.

It almost sounds like the Babylon Bee.

2 posted on 02/01/2021 12:42:00 PM PST by Spirochete
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To: Spirochete

There’s no ‘tism like nepotism!


3 posted on 02/02/2021 1:48:40 AM PST by Hillary'sMoralVoid (They chose life)
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