Posted on 08/11/2023 8:40:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With both the Biden Family Business scandal and Donald Trump indictments continuing to dominate the news cycles, daily, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that former President Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, “crossed the line of ethics” by accepting a $2 billion investment in his investment firm from the Saudi Arabian government.
During an interview on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Comer acknowledged a recent argument made by 2024 GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie, who claimed that the Trump family, along with Kushner, “has been involved in grifting for quite some time.” Christie said:
Look, the Trump family has been involved in grifting for quite some time. Jared Kushner, six months after he leaves the White House, gets $2 billion from the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund when Donald Trump had put him in a position to be in the Middle East. What was Jared Kushner doing in the Middle East?
Incidentally, the same Chris Christie, as we reported on Tuesday, who said in reference to the war in Ukraine: “I think that President Biden has certainly done better than President Trump.”
Anyway, after Tapper told Comer, “Again, sir, it all stinks to me. It all stinks,” Comer responded: (emphasis, mine)
Yeah. Look, I’ve been vocal that I think that what Kushner did crossed the line of ethics. But what Christie said, it happened after he left office. Still no excuse, Jake, but it happened after he left office. And Jared Kushner actually has a legitimate business.
This money from the Bidens happened while Joe Biden was vice president, while he was flying to those countries. He flew, days after he left Romania; his family started receiving wires from a corrupt Romanian foreign national. Days. Like four days after he left, including his granddaughter. What is his granddaughter doing getting a wire from a Romanian foreign national?
Great distinctions, great question, re: Biden’s granddaughter.
You can watch video of Comer’s comments, here:
Comer: ‘I Think that What Kushner Did Crossed the Line of Ethics‘ https://t.co/0ZeARGbfsz via @BreitbartNews
— MikesRight (@RealLibSmacker) August 11, 2023
Chris Christie was unavailable for comment.
In a trumped-up (pun, intended) February 2023 article titled, “After helping prince’s rise, Trump and Kushner benefit from Saudi funds,” The Washington Post wrote:
In early 2021, as Donald Trump exited the White House, he and his son-in-law Jared Kushner faced unprecedented business challenges. Revenue at Trump’s properties had plummeted during his presidency, and the attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters made his brand even more polarizing. Kushner, whose last major business foray had left his family firm needing a $1.2 billion bailout, faced his own political fallout as a senior Trump aide.
But one ally moved quickly to the rescue.
The day after leaving the White House, Kushner created a company that he transformed months later into a private equity firm with $2 billion from a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Kushner’s firm structured those funds in such a way that it did not have to disclose the source, according to previously unreported details of Securities and Exchange Commission orms reviewed by The Washington Post. His business used a commonly employed strategy that allows many equity firms to avoid transparency about funding sources, experts said.
Ah, “experts.” Ever notice how one side’s experts are the other side’s politically predisposed useful idiots?
It should be noted that not one word in the above block quote points to anything illegal, and on the contrary, the Post admitted that the Securities and Exchange Commission was well aware of Kushner’s Saudi deal and that his private business uses a “commonly employed strategy to avoid transparency.”
So, where’s the beef, exactly?
I’m not suggesting that Kushner’s deal with the Saudis was ethical — or unethical — but I am saying that the differences between Kushner’s deal and then-Vice President Biden’s alleged direct involvement in Hunter Biden’s nefarious business deals were, and remain, profound.
The Bidens likely raked in millions of dollars — not for business ventures, as was Kushner’s case, but as direct payments to a multitude of shell companies and eventually into multiple bank accounts.
Sorry, Democrats — how does the old saying go? That dog don’t hunt? Yeah, that.
So what does the bonehead think about the Bidenskyyyyyyyy crime family “ethics”? Or is the moron just an expert on the Trump family “ethics”
They can throw 🐍 Kurshner in Jail for all I care.
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This is beyond ridiculous.
In 2006, Kushner purchased The New York Observer and became a publisher while only in his mid-20s. The following year he made news again with his purchase of a Manhattan office building at 666 Fifth Avenue for the then-record sum of $1.8 billion. Kushner became the CEO of Kushner Companies in 2008.
It was another eight years before Donald Trump would become President.
If we’re going make believe Joe didn’t cash in personally, then the alternative is Hunter blew $30 Million on hookers, strippers, crack, and new teeth - and then a Biden Donor needed to pay his taxes.
Hunter isn’t even paying for his legal defense.
Good grief. He was making a distinction and illuminating how what the Bidens did was much WORSE. WTH is wrong with you?
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with me. CNN and Tapper is what’s wrong with me. Comer couldn’t get a gig at a more reliable DNC Propaganda Bureau?
Is it ethical to close down a bridge, endanger people’s lives and then throw your aides under the bus for it?
So Kushner made actual business deals without Trump intervening and Biden (both father and son) made pay or play blackmail deals...
I don’t see the crime here?
Did you read the article about what Comer actually said? I mean, the key lines were even highlighted for you, for Chrissake.
Here are some questions CNN will never explore about Kushner’s deal ...
Did Kushner hide this deal from the public?
Did Pres. Trump deny knowing anything about the deal?
Were any SARs generated by this deal?
Were any shell accounts set up to hide the money transfers?
If the answers to those four questions is “no” then what similarities are there to Hunter’s business deals?
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People don’t know bad it is.
Biden’s close Northeast Dems wrote the Ukrainian Aid legislation in such a way that they described Burisma without naming it.
They modified the Bill to increase the funding.
Foreigners wanting to meet with Hunter were given VP Pins and they were let into the State Dept rear Fire exit - to avoid Cameras and sign-in Logs. Prominent members of Gov sometimes would meet them with Private Citizen Hunter.
More questions for CNN ...
Did Pres. Trump get any Saudi prosecutors fired for investingating Kushner’s deal?
Have any Saudi officials made written and/or video statements that Pres. Trump pressured or threatened any Saudi official to deal with Kushner or to keep quiet about the deal?
That’s two more ways it wasn’t like a Biden Crime Family deal.
Kushners deal was AFTER Trump left office.
I think you just named five more ways that Hunter’s deals were different.
They are all corrupt, Trump and Biden crime families.
What about the little guy?? Not the big guy.
Trump is as corrupt as Biden. There’s no other way of looking at this. 2 billion is not chump change.
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The President’s Son was called in to testify for 28 hours before a Senate Committee, Don Jr, over a silly meeting during the Campaign.
How many hours has Criminal Hunter been questioned under oath in a Senate Hearing?
If you’re going to veer off into Senate corruption this thread will go on forever! :D
I don’t know what the “ethics” laws are with Presidential Aides or if there is even a “cooling off period” for them. I know senior government executives can lie about the President, get fired, and go right to work for CNN bashing the same President in the same week making a cool 6 figures plus retirement.
When I hear someone bitching about the ethics of that I will pay a bit more attention to this deal but even if I am not a “fan” of Jared he at least had a business before Trump announced and his business is NOT connected to the President that I can see.
It’s much easier to highlight those who are NOT corrupt in DC.
Just my .02
They don’t call it the swamp for nothing.
Comer is not helping with anything. Like most Republicans, he’s handing 2024 over to Biden and the democrats.
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