This seems to be ANOTHER example of the ‘Al Franken’ syndrome for Democrats…
Republican do underhanded stuff…
They get over…
Democrats do less?
They ARE expected to QUIT….
Why is wrong with THIS?..
Hunter Biden is taking a step that no other prospective presidential adult child in recent memory has undertaken. Moreover — and here is the most grossly underreported story of the Trump years — the Trump clan, even those working in the administration, continue to make a mint trading on their father’s name.
Bloomberg notes:
Biden’s pledge to avoid foreign work if his father wins the White House sets him apart from Trump’s children, who have continued working with foreign business partners from Dubai to Indonesia and India while his father sits in the White House. After Trump won the presidency in 2016, he handed the running of the Trump Organization to his sons, Don Jr. and Eric, and said they wouldn’t do any new overseas deals.
They still make money overseas, as the New York Times recently reported: “Both sons have operated and promoted the Trump family business overseas during their father’s presidency, even as he retains ownership.”
Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner work in the White House without divesting themselves of business holdings or forgoing foreign transactions, thereby raising the possibility in the minds of foreign leaders that the two can be manipulated. The Post reported in February 2018: “Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience.”
President Trump unconstitutionally receives the benefits of foreign deals and refuses to release his tax returns that would reveal sources of income. And we’re supposed to be concerned that Hunter Biden, whose father is no longer in office, is serving on a Chinese company’s board? Something is terribly wrong with this picture…..
image..theguardian
I think there are plenty of issues with what is going on with the Trump offspring in business internationally and much to be concerned with there..
However, there is a bit of a difference.
The Trumps were already engaged in this type of business years before their father ran for President.
Hunter Biden was able to get into this sort of business because of who is father was and what his father did politically.
So, there is a difference, and should be reason for concern on all sides.
I said two weeks ago that this would happen or that Biden would pledge that his son would not be doing these things if he were President, and people here scoffed. Now, they will say it is a good idea.
(and has anybody from PETA complained yet that Biden has a son that goes by “Hunter?”)
There is NO ‘difference’…
American President’s in the past made money AFTER they left the office…
They did NOT have their kids leveraging their fathers job and their access around the world…
Sure, but the Trump family was doing international business before politics.
That is the difference.
The Biden family was not. Hunter was clearly hired by these foreign companies because of whom he is father is. Maybe Hunter would have done everything by the books, but people sure seemed to hire him in order to try to curry favor.
You BELIEVE THIS????
Andrew Lawrence
@ndrew_lawrence
An actual quote from Don Jr about Hunter Biden: “When you’re the father and your sons entire career is dependent on that, they own you”
PETA could care less what Biden named his son. It does care about the ethical treatment of animals – so it correctly criticized the junior senator from Utah.
I liked this employment description of this dullard…
Former ski bum
Son of a rich guy
Anti nepotism crusader
And Republicans will defend the hypocrisy coming from the Dipshit First Son.