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Biden to host George Floyd's family at White House
AP ^ | May 21, 2021 | ALEXANDRA JAFFE

Posted on 05/22/2021 6:32:16 AM PDT by PROCON

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To: LibWhacker

“Nail down the furniture! And tableware.”

That was my first thought...count the spoons.


21 posted on 05/22/2021 6:51:05 AM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: PROCON

They’re dropping off the 10% big guy cut.


22 posted on 05/22/2021 6:51:43 AM PDT by Manic_Episode ( “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”)
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To: mrs. a; LibWhacker

Way more likely that someone from the Biden family steals Whitehouse crap.


23 posted on 05/22/2021 6:55:49 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: PROCON

Why not? He has desecrated and disgraced it since January 20, 2021. One more time won’t be noticed. It was a sad day for America when they put that bastard in the White House. As if further proof is needed that America is being run by America haters. But most people don’t care. “My IRA is doing good and my stock portfolio is doing damn good” the sheep as they chew their cud, unknowingly await slaughter day say.


24 posted on 05/22/2021 7:03:23 AM PDT by sport
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To: mrs. a

“Nail down the furniture! And tableware.”

“That was my first thought...count the spoons.’””

“Clintons return White House furniture.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121856&page=1

By ABC News
January 6, 2006, 3:12 PM

W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 8, 2001 — Former President Clinton and his wife, Sen.Hillary Rodham Clinton, have sent $28,000 worth of household goodsback to Washington after questions arose over whether the itemswere intended as personal gifts or donations to the White House.

“We have been informed that it is being shipped back, and theNational Park Service is ready to receive it, take possession of itand take custody of it,” Jim McDaniel, the National Park Service’sliaison to the White House, said Wednesday.

“The property is being returned to government custody untilsuch time that the issues can be resolved. It may well turn outthat that property is rightly the personal property of theClintons.”

Giving Back

After they were criticized for taking $190,000 worth of china,flatware, rugs, televisions, sofas and other gifts with them whenthey left, the Clintons announced last week that they would pay for$86,000 worth of gifts, or nearly half the amount.

Their latest decision to send back $28,000 in gifts brings to$114,000 the value of items the Clintons have either decided to payfor or return.

McDaniel discussed the matter Wednesday with Betty Monkman, theWhite House curator, and Gary Walters, the chief usher, orexecutive manager of the White House.

They were reviewing the gifts the Clintons chose to keep after$28,000 worth of items were found on a list of donations the ParkService received for the 1993 White House redecoration project. TheWashington Post this week quoted three people who said that theyassumed the furnishings they donated for the project would stay inthe White House.

“As a result of questions about the status of certain propertydonated to the White House during the Clinton administration, theNational Park Service will accept the return of the property inquestion and act as a custodian of such property,” according to astatement released by the Park Service, which administers the WhiteHouse as a unit of the national park system.

A person familiar with the Clintons’ move out of the WhiteHouse, who spoke on condition of anonymity, would say only:“They’ve been returned.”

Furniture Movers

While the Clintons’ decision to return these gifts was a way toget out from under this and other criticism surrounding theirdeparture from the White House, the couple provided scant detailsabout the shipment.

Mrs. Clinton’s office referred all questions about the giftreturn to the former president’s transition office. Transitionoffice workers said the Clintons would make no statement. Theyreferred all questions to the Park Service, which wasn’t exactlysure which gifts were being returned or where they had been kept.

In a statement released Monday, Clinton’s transition office saidevery item they accepted was identified by the White House giftoffice as a present to them. They said none of the gifts taken wason a curator’s list of official White House property.

“Gifts did not leave the White House without the approval ofthe White House usher’s and curator’s offices,” the statementsaid. “Of course, if the White House now determines that acataloging error occurred, ... any item in question will bereturned.”

Instead of waiting for the issue to be resolved, the Clintonsreturned the items.

The gifts in question were: A kitchen table and four chairsvalued at $3,650 from Lee Ficks of Cincinnati, Ohio; a $1,000needlepoint rug from David Martinous of Little Rock, Ark.; twosofas, an easy chair and an ottoman worth $19,900 from SteveMittman of New York; lamps valued at $1,170 from Stuart Shiller ofHialeah, Fla.; and a $2,843 sofa from Brad Noe, a businessman fromCalifornia.

The gifts were just one of several flaps that followed theClintons out of the White House:

Lawmakers are questioning Clinton’s desire to rent expensiveoffice space in New York City at government expense. Because of thecontention, the former president’s foundation has offered to pay atleast $300,000 of an estimated $790,000 annual rent for the officeClinton favors.

Mrs. Clinton, the new senator from New York, has facedquestions about the propriety of accepting the gifts in the periodbetween her election and her swearing-in. Senate rules would havelimited what she could accept had she been a senator.
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25 posted on 05/22/2021 7:08:37 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: PROCON

to mark the first anniversary of his OVERDOSE

Any action against his drug dealer?

Any action against the forgers who were making the fake $20s that George and his crew were trying to pass around?


26 posted on 05/22/2021 7:12:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: PROCON

How’d ya like to be a fly on the wall at that do??


27 posted on 05/22/2021 7:13:02 AM PDT by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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To: PROCON
From the article: President Joe Biden will host George Floyd’s family at the White House...his death at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer.

The race-hustlers at Associate Propaganda (AP) are at it again. George Floyd died of his own hand when he chose to overdose on illicit street drugs.

Black lives don't matter to drug dealers and to race-hustlers like Associated Propaganda (AP).

28 posted on 05/22/2021 7:15:22 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: BenLurkin

Make sure you lock up the valuables


29 posted on 05/22/2021 7:17:30 AM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: PROCON
And the family of the woman Floyd beat and kidnapped???
30 posted on 05/22/2021 7:18:25 AM PDT by high info voter
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To: PROCON

Crooks hangin’ together


31 posted on 05/22/2021 7:20:29 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: PROCON

The Floyd family has come out a winner. Got rid of their loser relative, cashed in $28 million, and get to steal Joementia’s pudding at the White House luncheon!


32 posted on 05/22/2021 7:24:38 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: PROCON

George Floyd was a disgusting human being.


33 posted on 05/22/2021 7:27:13 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: PROCON
Biden to host George Floyd's family at White House

Where they will be encouraged to pee on the bed President Trump slept in.

34 posted on 05/22/2021 7:27:32 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: PROCON

And when does dementia joe plan on hosting Ashli Babbit’s family?


35 posted on 05/22/2021 7:30:22 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP)
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To: PROCON

The Days of Trayvon have ended.


36 posted on 05/22/2021 7:30:51 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Thunder90

Well aint he right down the hall


37 posted on 05/22/2021 7:34:44 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: billyboy15

Hunter already has the date saved on his phone.


38 posted on 05/22/2021 7:37:17 AM PDT by mellow velo
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To: rockabyebaby
And when does dementia joe plan on hosting Ashli Babbit’s family?

Perhaps President Trump could honor her and condemn her murderer at one of his upcoming rallies?

39 posted on 05/22/2021 7:38:28 AM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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40 posted on 05/22/2021 7:40:43 AM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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