Putin, Afghans among top gift givers to Bidens in 2021
Source: AP
BY MATTHEW LEE 28 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s president and the deposed leader of Afghanistan were among the top gift givers to President Joe Biden and his family in 2021, according to federal documents published on Thursday.
In happier times between all three countries, Vladimir Putin gave Biden a $12,000 lacquer writing box and pen when they met at a highly anticipated summit in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2021.
And, then-Afghan President Mohammed Ashraf Ghani and his wife gave the U.S. president and first lady Jill Biden silk rugs worth an estimated $28,800 later that month.
Relations between the U.S. and Russia turned sour shortly after the Geneva meeting and have plummeted since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February. Ghani, meanwhile, fled Afghanistan shortly after the U.S. withdrew from the country on Biden’s orders in August, 2021.
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I was in Afghanistan in early1976 and bought two Afghan silk rugs, small ones, they are elsewhere in the house and I'm too lazy to go measure them, but, they are about 2 ft X 4 ft. $100 US greenbacks total bought the two of them!!!!!!!
I'd better get hold of my insurance company and have them appraised!!!!!
