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Vanity Fair: Joe Biden Makes Shocking Announcement
JOE BIDEN MAKES SHOCKING ANNOUNCEMENT: NONE OF HIS CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN WILL BE NAMED SENIOR ADVISERS TO THE PRESIDENT:
Time was, a president of the United States didn’t need to waste precious moments during his first few weeks in office making it clear that neither his children nor his grandchildren would be working in his administration. If he had, people would probably would’ve been like, “Cool, no one thought you were but good to know?” The events of the last four years, though, wherein Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were made not just senior advisers to the president but tasked with overseeing such things as a once-in-a-generation public health crisis, despite having no earthly clue what they were doing, have made such disclaimers necessary. So just so there’s no confusion, Joe Biden has stated unequivocally that none of his adult children, his seven grandchildren—who range in age from a few months to 26 years old—or any other relatives will be given government gigs, nor will they, like, be advising him on the situation in Yemen.
In an interview published Wednesday, Biden told People magazine, “We’re going to run this like the Obama-Biden administration. No one in our family and extended family is going to be involved in any government undertaking or foreign policy. And nobody has an office in this place. They always have access to Pop and Nana but nobody (will have an office).” (Ivanka and Jared, of course, had offices in the White House in addition to top-secret security clearance, which was initially denied to Jared due to his conflicts of interest but overruled by Trump.) To make clear the extreme difference between himself and his predecessor re: profiting off the presidency, Biden told a story about how years ago, an accountant told him he could charge the Senate for gas he used in his car but he declined, saying: “Here’s how I look at it: The foul line is 15 feet away from the basket. Never get me closer than 17 feet, because it really is a matter of the public trust.”
Biden’s comments follow White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki saying last week that it is the administration’s policy not to allow businesses to imply they have the president’s endorsement, after a law firm that one of Biden’s brothers is an adviser to ran an ad on Inauguration Day touting the relationship. (According to Politico, while running for president, Biden warned his younger brother Frank, “For Christ’s sake, watch yourself. Don’t get sucked into something that would, first of all, hurt you.” Frank reportedly told a Democratic donor, “My brother loves me dearly, but if I lobbied, he would cut my legs from underneath me.”) You may have also heard once or twice that Republicans, conservative media, and Donald Trump have had a few concerns about the business activities of the president’s son Hunter Biden, and that a laptop purporting to contain various smoking guns somehow landed in the hands of Rudy Giuliani. In case you were able to block that from your consciousness:
In an interview published Wednesday, Biden told People magazine, “We’re going to run this like the Obama-Biden administration. No one in our family and extended family is going to be involved in any government undertaking or foreign policy. And nobody has an office in this place. They always have access to Pop and Nana but nobody (will have an office).” (Ivanka and Jared, of course, had offices in the White House in addition to top-secret security clearance, which was initially denied to Jared due to his conflicts of interest but overruled by Trump.) To make clear the extreme difference between himself and his predecessor re: profiting off the presidency, Biden told a story about how years ago, an accountant told him he could charge the Senate for gas he used in his car but he declined, saying: “Here’s how I look at it: The foul line is 15 feet away from the basket. Never get me closer than 17 feet, because it really is a matter of the public trust.”
Biden’s comments follow White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki saying last week that it is the administration’s policy not to allow businesses to imply they have the president’s endorsement, after a law firm that one of Biden’s brothers is an adviser to ran an ad on Inauguration Day touting the relationship. (According to Politico, while running for president, Biden warned his younger brother Frank, “For Christ’s sake, watch yourself. Don’t get sucked into something that would, first of all, hurt you.” Frank reportedly told a Democratic donor, “My brother loves me dearly, but if I lobbied, he would cut my legs from underneath me.”) You may have also heard once or twice that Republicans, conservative media, and Donald Trump have had a few concerns about the business activities of the president’s son Hunter Biden, and that a laptop purporting to contain various smoking guns somehow landed in the hands of Rudy Giuliani. In case you were able to block that from your consciousness:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/joe-biden-family-no-government-jobs
