Posted on 10/26/2019 8:13:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Joe Biden has been inundated with questions about his youngest son’s business connections in Ukraine and China. He has retaliated by making comments against Trump’s family working in the White House during a recent interview. The former vice president believes that Trump’s children are not qualified to be in their current White House positions.
In a “60 Minutes” interview with Norah O’Donnell, Biden a leading 2020 presidential candidate said its “improper” to have the president’s children sitting in on cabinet meetings.
O’Donnell asked if Trump’s children have adequately acted to avoid a conflict of interest.
“Look, I wasn’t raised to go after the children. Their actions speak for themselves. I can just tell you this, that if I’m president, get elected president, my children are not gonna have offices in the White House. My children are not gonna sit in on cabinet meetings,” Biden said.
O’Donnell asked how it was improper.
“It’s just simply improper because you should make it clear to the American public that everything you’re doing is for them. For them! And the idea that you’re gonna have—go to the extent that he has gone to have our, you know—his—his children, his son-in-law, et cetera, engaged in the day-to-day operation of things they know nothing about,” Biden said.
“You don’t think that Jared Kushner should be negotiating a Middle East peace solution?” O’Donnell asked.
“No, I don’t,” Biden said. “What credentials does he bring to that?”
He continued by saying he learns as much as he can about the task assigned to him. He speaks with experts and stays focused on getting results, just as his business background has taught him.
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Seriously? Credentials? Trump’s minions don’t need any credentials other than they are loyal to him, love a great, strong United States, and do what he tells them without backstabbing, memo taking and leaking. Sloppy Joe should stop digging that hole with his lazy mouth.
Can you imagine being the only DJT heir being written out of the will? In a room full of people, the lawyer gets to that part; "As for (blank), who screwed up while I was President, I leave $1.00 USD." Nobody wants to be the star of that situation!
“... He speaks with experts and stays focused on getting results, just as his business background has taught him...”
*ROFLMAO*....Business background...What “business background”????????
Looking at Biden’s history, it shows no job whatsoever before being elected to New Castle County Council in 1970, a year after becoming a lawyer...
Biden’s kids are never going to have offices in the White House because their dad is never going to have an office in the White House again.
In the Big House, maybe...the whole fam damily...
Biden’s such a damned frickin’ liar.....he “forgot” to mention this:
Revealed: Joe Biden twice used his position as senator to intervene to boost son Hunter’s lobbying
Joe Biden lobbied Department of Justice Congress and Homeland Security for Hunter’s lobbying clients
BY Alana Goodman, Washington Examiner| October 24, 2019 07:37 PM
Joe Biden privately contacted the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice when he was a senior and influential U.S. senator to discuss issues that his son Hunter’s firm was being paid to lobby on, according to government records.
On at least two occasions, Biden contacted federal departments to discuss issues related to Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
Biden’s behind-the-scenes outreach illustrates how his Senate work overlapped with his son’s business interests. Biden has faced scrutiny for taking actions that were perceived to benefit his son’s work, including calling for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor and backing policies that helped the Delaware-based credit card industry while Hunter was working for MBNA, which is headquartered in the state.
Government records show that Biden, who has always insisted he knows nothing about his son’s business activities, helped Hunter’s work with strategic and highly specific interventions that could have benefited his son to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
On Feb. 28, 2007, Biden contacted DHS to express that he was “concerned about the Department’s proposed chemical security regulations authorized by Section 550 of DHS Appropriations Act of 2007,” according to the department’s log of its contacts with members of Congress.
Section 550, which was passed in 2006 as part of the DHS appropriations bill, requires high-risk chemical plants to submit site safety plans to DHS for approval, including security credentialing and training for employees.
Eight weeks earlier, the Industrial Safety Training Council had hired Hunter Biden’s firm to lobby DHS on the issue. The trade group, which represents companies that provide safety training for chemical facility employees, was mounting a heavy lobbying campaign over section 550, submitting congressional testimony about the need to expand background checks for chemical plant employees.
The Industrial Safety Training Council was seeking to expand the “language in DHS legislation regarding security clearance and credentialing for chemical facility employees and employers” in January 2007, according to lobbying disclosure records.
While Hunter Biden did not register as an individual lobbyist for the trade association, he was one of three senior partners in his firm at the time. The Industrial Safety Training Council paid Oldaker, Biden & Belair a total of $200,000 between early 2007 and the end of 2008.
The Biden campaign did not respond to request for comment. The National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, said Biden should have avoided involvement with issues that his son’s firm was also lobbying on because of the appearance of conflict.
“It’s implausible Sen. Biden did not know his son’s firm was lobbying on this arcane issue,” said Tom Anderson, the director of NLPC’s Government Integrity Project.
“Sometimes appearances are exactly what they are,” he said. “This is a recurring problem we’ve seen on the Hill, where family members are enriched because of their relationship with a member.”
Biden also sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Jan. 31, 2007 requesting a meeting with the Department of Justice to discuss expanding the federal fingerprint background check system.
“I write to request your assistance in implementing an expanded background check system for our nation’s volunteer organizations,” wrote Biden. “If we can work together to expand the number of volunteer organizations that have access to fast, accurate, and inexpensive fingerprint background checks, we will make significant and important strides in our ongoing effort to protect kids across our country.”
Biden added, “I would like to convene a small meeting with key representatives” from DOJ, the FBI, members of Congress and volunteer groups.
One of Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients at the time, a coalition of state-level criminal justice advocates called SEARCH, was also lobbying the federal government for a broader fingerprint screening system at the time.
The same day as Biden’s letter, SEARCH adopted a resolution calling on Congress to consider “any effort to improve the quality, completeness and accessibility of criminal history records” and expand the current system to “allow the return of all criminal history record information maintained by the States on the search subject through a single fingerprint check.”
The group initially hired Oldaker, Biden & Belair in 2006 to lobby for federal funding for state-level criminal justice programs, paying the firm $114,000 over the next year. In early 2008, SEARCH was seeking funding “to assist states in development and use of information to accelerate automation of fingerprint authentication processes and criminal justice data which are compatible with the FBI’s” system, according to lobbying records.
Biden introduced a bill called the “Child Protection Improvements Act” on March 13, 2008, which created a national fingerprint background check system for volunteer groups that worked with children. Oldaker, Biden & Belair promptly began lobbying for the bill on behalf of their client, SEARCH, according to lobbying records. SEARCH paid the firm $93,000 in 2008, records show.
Hunter Biden founded Oldaker, Biden & Belair with William Oldaker, a former adviser to his father. During his time at the firm, he was registered to lobby for clients on issues ranging from online gambling to higher education. After Biden became a vice presidential candidate in 2008, Hunter stepped away from lobbying, and the firm was renamed Oldaker, Belair & Wittie.
ABC News reported last week that Biden was concerned conflicts with his son’s lobbying work could negatively affect his presidential run in 2008.
Biden was “concerned with the impact that Hunter’s lobbying activities might have on his expected campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination,” according to court documents filed by a former business partner of Hunter Biden’s in 2007, ABC News reported.
“Because my dad was vice president of the United States, there’s literally nothing, as a young man or as a full-grown adult, that my father in some way hasn’t had influence over,” Hunter told the outlet in an interview.
All during 0bama’s rule his kids were off limits - not Trump’s, they’re fair game to anybody and every nasty news service.
In a “60 Minutes” interview with Norah O’Donnell.............
I think they spelled that wrong. It should say;
In a “60 Minutes” FREE CAMPAIGN AD with Norah O’Donnell.....
WARNING-—DO NOT BELIEVE THIS EVEN FOR A NANOSECOND. THIS IS A HUGE BIDEN SCAM.
Any monies supposedly “given” Biden is money being laundered thru Super Pacs,
taken from the super-rich Biden Family’s numbered accounts offshore.
Monies accrued from shakedowns.....exploiting the VP’s office for personal gain.
CNN REPORTS Biden (cough) said publicly that he doesn’t want help from super-PACs .....
CNN then reports that Biden’s overall fundraising incompetence and dwindling resources has Democratic
institutional donors “worried.” So the big buck guys are apparently stepping in. (cue laugh machine here)
BACKSTORY Joe Biden’s war chest of $8.9 million was a small fraction of what his Democrat rivals have on hand.
But Biden’s spending like there’s no tomorrow, FEC data shows. Biden’s lavish expenses include:
<><> $924,000 for private jets, about one out of every $16 raised
<><> taking in $15.7M BUT spending $17.6M during that same period.
<><>more than $20,000 at the luxury Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan;
<><> more than $14,000 at the Coronado Island Marriott in San Diego —
<><> more than $10,500 at the W Hotel in Los Angeles,
<><> big buck$ at other high-end hotels.
<><> almost $9M on payroll,
<><> $228,378 on “research consultants” and $150,400 on “strategic consultants.”
QUESTION How does a “party of the people” candidate spend $17.6M during the same period he took in $15.7M?
Only Hunter Biden knows ...cackle.
Results. The President think’s he's the best person to do it, that's what. And he's obviously a lot sharper than Biden and swamp creatures.
Creepy Uncle Joe might not have been raised to go after children, but he does it nonetheless.
When the left say these things that completely incriminate themselves, it proves 2 things... they think we are dumb but they are dumber.
Remember one thing when you listen to this really dumb guy, Biden. Like Trump, his daughter and son-in-law are not taking pay for their positions; but, when we look at Biden and his son, they were making big bucks off of his position as VP — and Biden’s son was not qualified for any of the positions that daddy helped him get because he was VP.
Remember one thing when you listen to this really dumb guy, Biden. Like Trump, his daughter and son-in-law are not taking pay for their positions; but, when we look at Biden and his son, they were making big bucks off of his position as VP — and Biden’s son was not qualified for any of the positions that daddy helped him get because he was VP.
Slow Joe set up his druggie, crooked son by trading on his government contacts at tens of millions of dollars a clip. Talk about “emoluments!”
Its really simple. The Trumps add value in exchange for no money and Bidens gets money in exchange for no value.
It’s not a rumor. He truly is a dumb ass.
Business background? Graft is a business?
Well said. You nailed it.
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