Posted on 08/09/2024 10:51:03 AM PDT by knighthawk
Former senior advisor for President Joe Biden Anita Dunn spoke about the president's decision to quit his reelection campaign, but argued his 'legacy' would be selecting Kamala Harris to be his vice president and political heir.
She said:
You know, it was rough. And no reflection on the vice president because I think one of the greatest things about Joe Biden’s legacy will be that he made sure that there was a pipeline in which Kamala Harris was going to be the natural person everyone turned to if something happened to him.
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It is hilarious when folks put words into a senile guy’s mouth.
He still never announced that he released one delegate to Kamala Harris.
Joe Biden’s greatest legacy is written in Chinese with a forward in Ukrainian.
So. Biden’s legacy continues to plummet, and will keep plummeting long after he’s left office.
mao lover anita dunn was too radical for the obama administration
but not for biden/harris
Wait.....this isn’t the Babylon Bee??????
Is this the Anita (I heart MAO!!)Dunn who was trying to convince Kamala to settle for a Governorship of California just two weeks ago? She has certainly changed her tune
Just read Hunter Biden’s indictment.
The Big Guy got rich.
The reason Obama chose Biden was because he knew where the money was and how to get it. Obama was a rookie in the Senate and Joe showed him the tricks
She admires Mao.
Obama had a Christmas ornament of Mao on the white house Christmas tree.
I recall this Anita Dunn years ago. It seemed whenever she gave a speech she would keep smacking her lips. Someone opined that this might be a sign of the use of anti-depressants.
Maybe she should have used a different word than "pipeline".
Source: Laura Powell @LauraPowellEsq on X. Jul 25
Reminds me of a system of government nothing like a democracy.
Kamala Harris personally filed an updated Statement of Candidacy (aka Form 2) to designate Tim Walz as her running mate.
<><>Since she used Biden’s personal candidate ID number (P80000722) instead of her own (P00009423), the FEC records are convoluted.
<><>Her newly filed Form 2 shows up on Biden’s personal FEC page. But if you look at the 2024 election cycle, Biden is erased and replaced with Harris, as if he was never never running for President.
<><>Looking at Biden’s campaign committee’s FEC record, it’s now associated with both Biden’s and Harris’s candidacies for President for the period of 2020-2022.
<><>But that makes no sense, because Harris’s Presidential run in 2020 was never linked to Biden’s, and she ceased her campaign for President in 2020 and did not run again until 2024.
<><>Now Harris’s personal FEC candidate ID number (P00009423)—which is supposed to follow her for all Presidential campaigns for life—is somehow linked to Biden’s Presidential campaign in 2020.
<><>Only her Vice-Presidential campaign was ever linked to Biden’s, but that is separate from any Presidential campaigns.
The current 2023-2024 FEC record for “Biden for President” (aka “Harris for President,” ID number C00703975) is linked to two Presidential candidates. Both are both named “Kamala Harris.” One of these candidates is associated with Harris’s candidate ID number (P00009423), and the other “Kamala Harris” is associated with Biden’s candidate ID number (P80000722).
The Statement of Candidacy that Kamala Harris filed on July 29, using Biden’s personal candidate ID number (P80000722), now shows up under Harris’s ID number. But last night’s filing for that same candidate—number P80000722—shows up for the other “Kamala Harris” who is running for President. (Based on what happened previously, I suspect the FEC will shift these records in the future, to make it seem like there aren’t so many discrepancies between the names and the ID numbers.)
Confused? That’s because these filings from Harris are irregular. If Kamala Harris had used her own candidate ID number, like every other candidate in modern history, this wouldn’t have been so complicated, but then it would have been difficult to make the case that she’s entitled to Biden’s war chest. Undoubtedly, these filings are trying to circumvent those pesky campaign finance laws.
By the way, since Walz has never run for President, he doesn’t have his own FEC candidate ID for a Presidential run. According to Harris’s supporters, Walz is equally entitled to any funds from the campaign committee associated with ID number C00703975.
And, just as Harris felt entitled to file an amended Statement of Candidacy using Biden’s personal candidate ID number because she was the Vice Presidential candidate, Walz could do the same, using Biden’s personal candidate ID number to run for President if he wanted to.
Upshot: The Democrats could pass this campaign down in perpetuity, without even obtaining the formal agreement of the prior candidate.
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Biden senior advisor Anita Dunn has to divest investment portfolio
worth between $16.8 million and $48.2 million to avoid conflicts
FRI, AUG 12 2022, by Brian Schwartz, @SCHWARTZBCNBC
The almost 20 listed clients once represented by Biden aide Anita Dunn include AT&T, Micron, American Clean Power Association, Lyft, Pivotal Ventures, Pfizer, Salesforce and Reddit. The disclosure also shows dozens of stock holdings owned by Dunn, including previous call and put options tied to the S&P 500, corporate and municipal bonds and a plethora of individual stocks within numerous brokerage accounts. Dunn returned to the White House as an assistant and senior advisor to the president in May.
White House senior advisor Anita Dunn is being forced to divest an investment portfolio worth an estimated $16.8 million to $48.2 million that ethics attorneys say poses significant conflicts of interest in her new role. The political and communications strategist will also have to recuse herself from myriad domestic and international issues that affect her former clients. Dunn’s newly released financial disclosures, which are 93 pages long, show extensive stock, options, bond and private equity holdings — a fortune she and her husband, veteran attorney Bob Bauer, have amassed over the years. Bauer is a high-powered lawyer who served in the White House under the Obama administration; Dunn is a founding member of the consulting firm SKDK where she was paid $738,715 over the last roughly 2½ years, according to the White House. The disclosure form also provides insight into her extensive client list at SKDK.
White House spokesman Chris Meagher told CNBC in an email Thursday that Dunn will need to divest her holdings and is recused from all matters involving SKDK and her past clients. She also won’t be able to attend any meetings involving them for two years, pursuant to the Biden-Harris ethics pledge, he said. The form discloses transactions over the two calendar years preceding her May 9 appointment, Meagher added. “The ethics rules require White House officials to recuse from matters that conflict with their financial interests. When officials have a large scope of duties and an even larger stock portfolio, sunlight is the best disinfectant,” Kedric Payne, vice president and general counsel of the watchdog Campaign Legal Center, said after reviewing her disclosure.
Dunn worked for the president as one of his senior advisors from January 2021 through that August before returning for a brief stint this March. She was considered a special government employee for both posts who was exempt from disclosing her assets publicly. She wasn’t required to file a public disclosure form until her most recent appointment in May. She returned as President Joe Biden’s public poll numbers were in flux and the administration was struggling with a panoply of vexing global and domestic crises, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the computer chip shortage, rising gas prices and sky-rocketing inflation. Biden also announced he was nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in late February.
The disclosure also shows dozens of stock holdings acquired by Dunn and her husband, including call and put options tied to the S&P 500, corporate and municipal bonds, and a plethora of individual stocks held in numerous brokerage accounts. Those brokerage accounts show investments in corporate giants such as Amazon, Alphabet, Boeing, Bank of America, Chevron, Dow, KKR and Morgan Stanley. The couple’s portfolio is diverse and includes at least $500,000 tied up in a hedge fund.
Ethics requirements for White House officials and lawmakers don’t require precise values, relying instead on a fairly wide range. Based on her disclosure form, H. Jude Boudreaux, a senior financial planner at The Planning Center, estimated her and her husband’s holdings to be worth between $16.8 million and $48.2 million. Boudreaux is a certified financial planner at The Planning Center. Lee Baker, a certified financial planner at Apex Financial Services, estimated Dunn and her spouse to have a net worth between $18 million and $38 million in assets. Their properties aren’t listed on the form or included in calculating their net worth.
The couple held between $1,000 and $15,000 in corporate bonds issued by Lockheed Martin, Phillip Morris, Target, Bank of America, Apple and Boeing, among others — all companies that have frequent and multiple issues requiring federal oversight. The pair held between $15,001 and $50,000 in debt issued by numerous other corporations, including Cisco Systems, Oracle, Wells Fargo, Duke Energy, Visa and Amazon. They also have numerous accounts or mutual fund holdings that are valued at more than $500,000, apiece. Dunn additionally held between $1 million and $5 million of stock in marketing firm Stagwell, which she received after it acquired SKDK in 2015. They also made tens of thousands of dollars exercising put options in the iShares Core S&P 500 Index, which could create conflicts of interest with “every single company” in the S&P 500, according to Walter Shaub, who used to run the Office of Government Ethics in the Obama administration and briefly served in the Trump administration.
“Options are not exempt from the conflict of interest statute under any circumstance. That means that she came into government with a conflict of interest with every company whose stock she wrote an option for and with every company in the referenced indexes,” Shaub said after reviewing Dunn’s financial disclosure. He said she needs to divest all of the options or recuse herself for every issue “affecting any company in the S&P 500 and any other company whose stock is the subject of an option she held.”
The power couple also held numerous municipal bonds that were used for state and local infrastructure and school projects across America, including in Burlington County, New Jersey; Clark County, Nevada; the Klein County Independent School District in Texas; and Miami Dade County, Florida, to name a few. The Biden administration has been doling out hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars to local, city and state agencies and schools to upgrade transportation infrastructure, high-speed internet access and invest in other public works projects.
SKDK is within the top 25 paid Democratic political vendors in the country, according to nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog OpenSecrets. Data shows that during the 2020 election cycle, SKDK was paid more than $65 million by Democratic-aligned campaigns. Biden’s campaign paid over $2 million for SKDK’s services last cycle, according to OpenSecrets data.
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Obama had to rake in the $ in 4 quick years because he had the Trump speed bump.Biden knows the next 6 months are critical for the Biden Fam Damily.
Ms Dunn, you worked for Joe and know he is a sad piece of human.. He should have never been in the race.. The damage he has done has to be undone. He and his puppeteer are finished!
“Trusted messenger Anita Dunn”
Trusted messenger Anita Dumbshit
There, fixed it
You know if liberals keep repeating over and over that Commie-la is a superhuman force of nature, they might forget what a bozo she really is.
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