Critics Mock GOP's Hunter Biden Slams In Wake Of Jared Kushner's $2 Billion Saudi Payday
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Critics Mock GOP's Hunter Biden Slams In Wake Of Jared Kushner's $2 Billion Saudi Payday
The money dwarfs any income Hunter Biden is known to have earned while on a Ukrainian energy company’s board while his father was Barack Obama’s vice president. And Hunter Biden couldn’t curry favor with any foreign entities with a powerful White House position like the one Kushner held, when Donald Trump ’s son-in-law was supposed to be representing the American public and not his own interests.
“It’s just a complete free-for-all ,” Walter Shaub, director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics in the Obama and Trump administrations, told Bloomberg. “The real concern here is that the public has no way of knowing exactly what favors someone like Kushner may have done for the Saudis.”
Kushner, a neophyte investment fund manager who was a real estate developer in his family’s business before Trump elevated him and wife Ivanka Trump to senior White House roles, reaped the massive reward even though a supervisory panel of the Saudi Arabian sovereign fund had serious reservations about Kushner’s new private equity firm , The New York Times reported.
The panel was concerned about “inexperienced management” of the brand new fund and found several aspects of the business “unsatisfactory,” according to documents obtained by the Times.
But the panel’s reservations were overruled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman , a friend of Kushner’s and the recipient of significant Trump administration benefits.
This was the same man whom Trump — reportedly at Kushner’s prompting — staunchly defended after American intelligence said he was responsible for the horrific 2018 murder and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi . Trump also approved a highly controversial multibillion-dollar arms deal to the country while the Saudis were dropping bombs on Yemeni civilians.
Attorney Daniel Goldman tweeted Monday: “I don’t want to hear another word about Hunter Biden. But I would like to hear about congressional investigations related to this investment” by the Saudis, he added.
Goldman was the lead counsel in the House impeachment inquiry against Trump after the then-president held up military aid to Ukraine while pressing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to “do us a favor” and investigate Hunter Biden’s work in his country.
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Just another sad attempt of the Huff Post to project, deny and deflect. To be expected.
i believe Hunter Biden was wrong in avoiding conflict of interest with his father being Vice POTUS. I also believe, though it doesnt look good, it was all most likelyin the lax Laws our Pols get to play by.
And your thoughts on this totally blowing the fck up of a possible Hunter Biden potential conflict....
WTF would you classify this as ? Cause this is a nuclear explosion compared to a firecracker ! You have no problem with this, yet still think Hunter was the crime, even though nothing dso far, of the century.../ Please !
Since you ask I will tell you. I think it is amusing how each side demonizes the other side yet ignores when their own side does something similar. My feeling is if they (either person)did something illegal they should pay the price. If they did something that is currently legal but lawmakers think it should be illegal then they have the ability to make it so instead of just complaining about it and then moving on to the next thing to complain about.
In this case the timing is funny that as soon as the Hunter thing starts taking root the Huff Post comes up with a "bombshell" from a few years ago in order to distract from Hunter.
As far as firecracker vs nuclear, oh come on, talk about melodramatic.
a couple million from one NOT IN OUR WHITEHOUSE, to TWO BILLION for ONE ACTUALLY LIVING IN OUR WHITEHOUSE IN THE DAMN ADMINISTRATION RUNNING MOST OF ITS AGENDAS !!!!
Right down the center my ass
I don't think your ass has anything to do with it but thanks for all the capital letters, I didn't know how much you bought into the deflection before.
is a CRACK
that it appears the 'right' and tiose right down the center are smoking...
So you missed where I said both people should be held accountable if they did something illegal.
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So, yet another, "But Trruuummmmppppp!!!!!!" article. And the blind partisanship that is to be expected when defending a crackhead and his Alzheimer patient father.
It was semi amusing the first time it was posted, it hasn't aged well.
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This was dumb the first time you posted it.
Pardon the cliche' but, Dude...
Some people seem to have trouble concentrating on more than one thing at a time. All that is needed is someone (or the Huff post) to say "look, there is something shiny over there!" and that is all they can focus on.
quite alluring you think, cause remember when "i just grab em by the pussy " came out, and suddenly Russia released Podestas hacked E-mails or something.
a total joke, how can those railing against Hunter, not be pissed off ay THIS >??
You do realize some people can actually want both incidences to be looked into don't you? It does not have to be one or the other.
As far as grab em by the pussy that is totally irrelevant to the kids doing anything illegal. I think it has already been established that Donald is a crass blowhard.
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“…Jeremy's razors…”
…perhaps Occam’s razor may allow for a closer shave…
Maybe, but being retired I find I don't care about a close shave as when I was working. At this point I am down to shaving once a week.
They really can't admit that someone on their side may have done something wrong. It is actually sad to see people so detached from any kind of rational thinking.
What you all fail to see is Hunter is not 'on my side'.
He was not in the WH, was not an employee of the WH, did not have security clearance, did not see classified information...
I guess that is the difference between a couple of mil and a couple of bil.
There is always a "difference" when one side (Repub vs Dem) wants to rationalize why it is OK when they do something. Just as some people on the right say it is different because Joe was in the white house and Hunter was getting pay to play access to his father money since he sure was not qualified for the position he was payed for.
The thing is both sides may have a point and maybe both things should be looked into, not one looked into and one forgotten since is "different".
So why is the left getting their panties in a wad then?
indubitably
What I said was the truth and in no way any rationalization.
I don't like Hunter and I think he is a scumbag. If he did anything wrong go after him.
Sounds to me he was using his fathers name to make a buck.
No matter what you all say that is still a lot different than someone inside the WH that was using backchannel to communicate.
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This 'lefty' is not. Go after Hunter all you want.
I have a sneaky feeling the only reason you all keep going after this is you think it will somehow come back to his father.
You may be the exception to the rule. I am talking more about the people that buy into "Attorney Daniel Goldman tweeted Monday: “I don’t want to hear another word about Hunter Biden" narrative.
So you don't care it's just the rest of the mindless herd.
Considering all the nepotism going on in Washington that no one seems to care about that may very well be the case. That should not minimize the possible severity when you are talking about foreign governments and what they were getting for their money. And yes, that does go for Kushner also.
So no real dialogue from you, just insults as usual.
And I won't delete this just say sorry, I miss read your post.
I would think that anyone with half a brain should have known there is nothing to get from Hunter.
He fell into scumbag territory when he married his late brother's wife.
I think Joe's team is doing all they can to keep him away from the WH.
Unlike donald who brought them all in.
Maybe, maybe not. It is the idea that so many people seem to assume there is nothing there so there should not be an investigation. Why not let the investigation play out, if there ends up being nothing there than feel free to say you told them so. Trying to shut it down only looks like there may be something to be afraid of.
I don't see anyone saying to shut it down...well there are probably some.
I say investigate away. All the scumbags in DC should probably be looked at.
Hell one state just now voted to impeach someone for misdeeds.
My personal opinion is these governments thought they could have a back channel to the VP and it didn't work because Hunter is an incompetent boob.
Jared got paid after he left the WH, almost like for services rendered.
You may very well be right but as of now it is conjecture, it will be interesting to see how it all shakes out once they are investigated. My only hope is that they are investigated completely and fairly.
I guess my whole point of all this is I can't blame Joe for what his son did or didn't do, just like I can't, and I hate to say this, blame donald for what Jared did.
I can blame Trump if he knew about this and remained silent.
Agree, unless Donald or Joe had a direct benefit from the actions or gave something so their kids could benefit. I doubt we will ever know for sure
meh, they're still trying to change the results of the last election their hero lost due to incompetence.
This is of course true for both Jared and Hunter, but at this point all we can really say is that it is "concerning". There is no smoking gun of actual pay for play in either case regardless of how many hundreds of Hunter Biden laptop seeds conservatives keep posting. Until they have any actual proof of a crime all we can say is that this type of behavior, getting paid huge sums from other governments that someone had previously had dealings with as a US government official stinks of quid quo pro, but if done by a family member or after leaving office, there's not much you can prove unless you have the tape of the conversation where they commit to doing a favor for the other party in exchange for cash or benefits.
It's not unlike the situation with Donald and Putin. We know for a fact that Putin intentionally helped Trump during the 2016 election. We know for a fact that the Trump campaign welcomed the help and were eager for any dirt the Russians could provide on their opponent. We know for a fact that before Trump was inaugurated Flynn discussed with the Russian ambassador delaying or canceling the Russian sanctions imposed for their meddling in the election. We know for a fact the Trump administration delayed Russian sanctions for months soon after taking office. What we don't have is a tape of Trump telling Putin what he was willing to give for Putin's support.
So whether its Hunter or Jared or Donald, the fact is we should all be "concerned" with their actions, but we'll likely never have definitive proof of their criminal behavior. When you broker a $2 billion backroom deal you're probably pretty careful about not leaving any evidence of a crime or clumsy loose ends.
The real question is, should we still support politicians if we have "real concern" over their likely quid pro quo financial deals? Sadly, I believe this question gets answered along partisan lines, where conservatives have faith and trust in their politicians regardless of their ethical "concerns" and liberals and progressives often do the same. Then the two sides just bicker at one another claiming "Your guy is a criminal!" which is responded to with "No, your guy is a criminal!" , "Oh yeah, prove it!" , "No, you prove it!", which then quickly devolves into pointless back and forth memes.
What a world where all they have to do is get the masses arguing back and forth, meanwhile, they get away with it.
Agree. It seems there has always been alot of nepotism in politics (as well as the private sector) that seems to be accepted. I think bringing a foreign government or foreign money into it may bring it to a new level. If there are no laws to help avoid even the optics of wrongdoing maybe it should be looked at. Of course I am not sure exactly how that would be done since it may effect the very people that would have to write or vote for the law (kinda like term limits). In the mean time as you say it is up to the individual as to what they accept as "business as usual" for themselves and as of right now that seems to go along party lines. I wonder if the true independents care enough about it to change their vote, or if they just ignore it as white noise of the partisans.
Hunter has years and years of experience getting his hands dirty in Equity services with the Heinze's and other
"well placed" individuals and rich families. As a lawyer, he's probably twice as guilty as charges that might come about
for his various investment funds which are all tax dodges.
Jared used to run his father's slum lord businesses in Baltimore and the Saudi's gave him 500 large to start
yet another equity firm in which he has no experience, just political connections?
smh