Biden: No family members will be involved in any government decisions

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN



By Caroline Kelly, CNN

Updated 7:05 AM ET, Wed February 3, 2021

(CNN)President Joe Biden vowed that no one in his extended family will have sway over government decisions in an interview with People magazine published Wednesday.

"We're going to run this like the Obama-Biden Administration," he said of ethics requirements pertaining to government appointees' family and friends to avoid the semblance of wrongdoing.

"No one in our family and extended family is going to be involved in any government undertaking or foreign policy," he added. "And nobody has an office in this place. They always have access to Pop and Nana but nobody (will have an office)."

Biden shared an anecdote of previously rejecting personal benefits that could have been paid by the government, professing his commitment to steering clear of impropriety.



Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/politics/biden-people-magazine-family-members-government/index.html

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

1. KnR...nt

[PJMcK]

2. After Trump, this seems remarkable

But it really shouldn’t.

[PatSeg]

7. I was thinking the same thing

For many years, this was pretty much expected. Trump upended all norms in such a short period of time.

[Clash City Rocker]

3. What? No family members involved and he hasn't golfed since taking office?

And he actually takes questions in press conferences from politically opposed media and doesn’t call them “nasty questions?” It’s almost like the president wants to be...presidential.

[aggiesal]

10. I was going to take the sarcastic side and say ...

No family members involved and he hasn't golfed since taking office?
What kind of a President is he?
Come on, get with the program!

[Blue Owl]

4. Jarvanka can slink off to its swamp mansion

And Gums and Junior can just fuck off

[JohnnyRingo]

5. He's not going to fire Ivanka, is he?

Where will he get timely advice and impromptu lap dances?
Is the White House cat getting her office?

[ananda]

6. Pop and Nana

That is so cute.

Love

[iluvtennis]

11. +100. nt

[George II]

8. And yet Eric and Junior are still droning on and on about Hunter, the buttholes.

[trueblue2007]

28. TRUMP'S 3 "CHILDREN" STOLE MILLIONS. SOME FACT HERE

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/this-is-still-happening-childrens-hour-edition.html

This Is Still Happening: Trump Children Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric
A roundup of Trump administration malfeasance, part 12.



What Is Still Happening: Trump’s three grown children from his first marriage—Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr.—have been the ones most central to his efforts to loot the federal government and Republican Party for as much money as possible while he’s in office.

IVANKA AND HER HUSBAND Even after she announced she would shut down her lifestyle brand to avoid further conflicts of interest, it continued to generate upward of $1 million in sales for her and she continued to collect new overseas trademarks.

• In 2018 alone, Ivanka and Jared reported as much as $135 million in income, much of which came from foreign business.

• Jared and Ivanka likely broke the law when they pushed the administration to enact tax breaks for so-called opportunity zones, a program that happened to benefit the couple to the tune of millions of dollars.


SNIP


the sons ..... DR JR AND ERIC


The sons also use their father’s political career to boost the Trump family brand. In 2017, a Mumbai, India, complex was sold as an “an opportunity worth its weight in gold” to be associated with “POTUS.” When Donald Jr. visited India in 2018, he spoke at an event that also featured Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The New York Times further reported that Indonesia is “helping to build a major new highway that will make a new Trump development more accessible” after a launch event in Jakarta attended by Donald Jr. and numerous local government officials. The Times also reported that the Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland dropped local development requirements to allow the Trumps to build. And during Trump’s impeachment, Eric used House hearings as an opportunity to hawk Trump wine.




more and more and more. READ THE ARTICLE. MORE ARTICLE ABOUT THEIR GRAFT is all over the internet. trump children made money when he was president 2020


https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+children+made+money+when+he+was+president+2020&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilya7V9c7uAhXXrZ4KHeHjBZwQ_AUIDigA&biw=1242&bih=686&dpr=1

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9. Maybe he can invite Ivanka to the G7 n/t

[newdayneeded]

15. Picture

Does anybody have that classic pic with Merkel stink eying Ivanka at that meeting. That picture said way more than a thousand words! lol

[hibbing]

23. That's the one I was looking for!

[question everything]

12. We know that Jarvanka were "special members" or something

And Eric was running the Trump empire but what exactly did Jr. do in the past four years? Living on the generous allowance while running around threatening the ones who would not support his whinny dad?

[BobTheSubgenius]

13. The fact of the matter is, leaving President Biden's overwhelming decency and propriety aside,

is that a Democratic President has to be Caesar's wife. Even having witnessed a President being excoriated over the colour of a very conventional suit, or, as his predecessor had been photographed doing (with no blowback), putting his feet on a desk, he knew which way the wind was blowing long before now. It's not just avoiding impropriety, it's avoiding even the appearance of it.

Besides, it's just The Thing To Do. What else would he ever do?

[EndlessWire]

24. "Besides, it's just The Thing To Do. What else would he ever do?"

I like this clever line.

[jmowreader]

14. There's a difference between Trump and Biden

Trump tried to run the country like the Trump Organization. In that company, he got all his advice from his family members, and kept that system in the White House.

Biden has always relied on non-family members in his government roles.

[IronLionZion]

16. Ashley Biden would be way better than Ivanka

but it's generally a good idea to keep family out of policy. JFK put his brother as AG.

[GB_RN]

25. However,

In the case of RFK as AG, Robert was qualified to be AG, as he actually had a law degree. None of Dolt45’s spalpeen were qualified for ANYTHING they did.

[Initech]

17. There's more of that "radical left" agenda!

[lambchopp59]

18. It seemed with the nepotism so inherent with the Trump's...

The large organization I'd worked at many satellites for over 15 years, the last and final 4 seemed to become rife with undeserved promotions, discovering this was happening because totally incompetent so-and-so was joe blow high-up's second cousin's in-law. Truly sickening levels of mismanagement I was watching slowly crumble what used to be a fair outfit to work for. That nepotism reaching the top levels there, as though under the Trump mismanagement of the country, that organization I'll never set foot in again seemed to accept all that as okay. Next came the pandemic lay-offs of those doing the work.
I've seen this movie before, of entire organizations getting crushed under acceptance of "It's not what you know but who" as an employment axiom.

[Grins]

19. "...unlike the previous administration," he didn't add. NM

[OneCrazyDiamond]

20. I assume The First Lady is excluded. N/T

[sarcasmo]

21. Normalcy has returned, no Nepotism.

[onetexan]

22. yup, the Repugs must be seething Biden's so squeaky clean & has no conflicts of interest.

nothing for them to sink their sharp teeth on.

[MichMan]

26. Relatives should also be prohibited for working for any entity that does business with government

[maxsolomon]

27. Ridiculous that he even had to say this.

Dems have to jump through hoops, GOP just ignores them entirely.