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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOBers are dead set to go after Hunter for his financial dealings with Ukraine?
Why arent they looking into Jareds dealings with the Saudis and the $3.5 billion he made from the Trump era works?
Oh the hypocrisy!
Walleye
(45,404 posts)There are Republicans who were indicted, convicted and sentenced and pardoned and still say they did nothing wrong. I would say the Hunter is clean other than maybe some tax mistakes. They have yet to come up with anything specific that he did other than being Joe Bidens son.As far as calling out their hypocrisy, thats a waste of breath
Emile
(43,244 posts)to deflect attention away from Trump's criminal activities.
Botany
(77,846 posts)A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.
Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration, the report says Russias intelligence services repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his familys alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine. In this way, Trumps circle laundered the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculatedand promoted by Russias online proxiesas American news.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html
Justice matters.
(10,070 posts)Why does the so-called "librul" media still refuse to look at that?
Both Kushner and Trump announced they would not take a salary while working for the government in an attempt to shut down nepotism concerns. While their supporters marked this as a public sacrifice, the massive amount of money they made on the side undercuts that argument, as government salaries would have been less than 1% of their income.
One major factor in their outside profits came from Ivanka Trumps ownership stake in the Trump Hotel in DC, just blocks from the White House and the locus of influence peddling in the Trump administration. Before business slowed down due to the pandemic, the couple paid a combined 23 visits to the hotel. All told, Ivanka made more than $13 million from the hotel since 2017, dropping from about $4 million a year between 2017 and 2019 to about $1.5 million last year, at least in part due to the pandemic. On top of the drop in revenue, theres an unexplained drop in the value of her ownership. Having previously claimed it to be worth between $5 million and $25 million, in her final disclosure she listed it as only worth $100,000 to $250,000. She did not report selling any of her ownership share in the hotel.
The hotel was far from Ivanka Trumps only controversial source of income while working in the White House. In 2018, Ivanka announced she was shutting down her namesake brand, and she later filed a disclosure with the government that [a]ll operations of the business ceased on July 31, 2018. But we discovered that she still made up to $1 million from it in 2019 despite the fact that she claimed it no longer existed.
While after four years its still a little hard to tell what, exactly, Ivanka actually did in the White House, her tenure was still marked by repeated scandals revolving around potential conflicts of interest with her businesses. While dealing with foreign governments can raise obvious questions for the children of presidents, getting financial or other benefits from foreign governments while working as a senior staffer in your fathers administration should be an obvious non-starter. But when it comes to Ivankas time in the administration, getting foreign trademarks to use after leaving the White House may have been her biggest accomplishment.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/jared-and-ivanka-made-up-to-640-million-in-the-white-house/
Botany
(77,846 posts)Why Saudi money for Kushner, Mnuchin is drawing fresh scrutiny Before leaving office, Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin engaged in official Middle Eastern travel to countries they would soon hit up for private cash.
https://images.axios.com/AUCbUR2TjBxcLbRFZUk99uQ2aFM=/0x0:2863x1610/1366x768/2022/04/11/1649638584025.jpg
In the final months of the Trump administration, then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner spent quite a bit of time in the Middle East, ostensibly in support of a program called the Abraham Fund, which would finance projects in the region. On the surface, this wouldnt seem especially notable.
But just below the surface, theres a lot more to this.
As The New York Times reported in a detailed new piece, the Abraham Fund proved to be little more than a mirage: After Donald Trump left the White House, the fund ceased to be. But wouldnt you know it, after the Abraham Fund evaporated, Mnuchin and Kushner also launched private funds that sought to raise money from many of the same folks most notably in Saudi Arabia.
In fact, the duo didnt just seek the money, they received it: Soon after leaving office, Mnuchins private venture received a $1 billion commitment from the main Saudi sovereign wealth fund, on top of other investments from other Middle Eastern countries. Kushner secured a $2 billion investment with the Saudis even after those responsible for helping oversee the Saudi sovereign wealth fund concluded that such a commitment was a very bad idea.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/saudi-money-kushner-mnuchin-drawing-fresh-scrutiny-rcna30056
Justice matters.
(10,070 posts)mitch96
(15,875 posts)AllaN01Bear
(29,795 posts)Baitball Blogger
(52,713 posts)Hillary's emails. 'Cuz, they got nothing.
We just keep hitting them with their growing moral and ethical corruption, and in return, mock them for their rinse and repeat strategy.
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