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We live in a Banana Republic, May 27, 2021 Biden edition...
HoustonHusky
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So amazed that the fact Hunter Biden's salary got cut in half the month his dad left office was not discussed around here...not that it was a corrupt pay-to-play scheme or anything...
https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/hunter-bidens-ukraine-salary-was-cut-after-joe-biden-left-office/
Also digging in a little more I was completely surprised that this drug-addled in-breeding loser was also in charge of a UN operation, specifically the "Chairman of the Board of the World Food Program USA"...a corrupt UN program that is supposed to buy food from poor farmers to distribute it to the needy and instead buys food from multinational conglomerates and lets it rot in warehouses. And as only Hunter could do he couldn't leave it as that and instead used it as a front for even more corruptions...in this case serving on the teet of corrupt Ukrainian and Russian folks...Joe Biden lied (can you call it a lie when you have dementia and can't remember anything anymore) when he said he never met with his business partners...
https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/hunter-biden-arranged-secret-dinner-with-business-partners-and-vp-joe/
We live in a Banana Republic
https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/hunter-bidens-ukraine-salary-was-cut-after-joe-biden-left-office/
Also digging in a little more I was completely surprised that this drug-addled in-breeding loser was also in charge of a UN operation, specifically the "Chairman of the Board of the World Food Program USA"...a corrupt UN program that is supposed to buy food from poor farmers to distribute it to the needy and instead buys food from multinational conglomerates and lets it rot in warehouses. And as only Hunter could do he couldn't leave it as that and instead used it as a front for even more corruptions...in this case serving on the teet of corrupt Ukrainian and Russian folks...Joe Biden lied (can you call it a lie when you have dementia and can't remember anything anymore) when he said he never met with his business partners...
https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/hunter-biden-arranged-secret-dinner-with-business-partners-and-vp-joe/
We live in a Banana Republic
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It’s good to be in guvmint.
In what would become the defining scandal of her time in office, in October 2018 Ivanka’s brand won 16 new trademarks from the Chinese government, including for voting machines. These approvals came about three months after Ivanka announced that her brand was shutting down, and mark the largest number of new Chinese trademarks she received in a single month during the Trump presidency. Six months after the company officially shut down, it received a new trademark to sell the Ivanka brand in Canada. In all, CREW found at least 28 foreign trademarks approved for Ivanka Trump while in the White House.
While most of her work in the White House was fairly nebulous, we do know that she worked on the Trump administration’s implementation of the Opportunity Zones program in 2018, apparently violating conflict of interest law in the process. At the same time that Ivanka was working on Opportunity Zones, Jared owned a significant financial stake in a company called Cadre which offers investment vehicles under the Opportunity Zones program. When Trump and Kushner entered the administration, Kushner’s stake in Cadre was valued between $5 million and $25 million. The value would rise to $25 million to $50 million. Kushner originally failed to disclose his ownership in Cadre. Despite the fact that the top White House ethics official determined at one point that it was “reasonably necessary” for him to divest from Cadre in order to do his job at the White House, he never did.
Within a few years of launching, her retail line was generating north of $75 million per year in revenue. She followed up with a line of women's work wear which quickly hit $100 million in annual revenue. Ivanka licensed her name for these deals, and in return received a 7% cut of the wholesale revenues. This resulted in around $10 million per year in pre-tax earnings at her peak. She shuttered the lines in 2018 due to lagging sales.
This isn't a pox on both their houses. It is a white wash of the Biden corruption and actually shows a clean slate for Jared and Ivanka.
https://fortune.com/2021/02/03/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-income-hit-white-house/
Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner reported as much as $120 million in income for 2020 in their final financial disclosure forms as White House advisers, a more than 20% drop from what they reported a year ago.
The couple, both of whom waived government salaries, said they had income of at least $23.8 million and as much as $120 million during 2020 and the first 20 days of 2021. That compares to the figure of as much as $156 million for the same period a year earlier. Officials are only required to disclose the value of their assets and their non-governmental income in broad ranges.
Overall, the disclosures suggest Trump and Kushner, though still extremely wealthy, lost ground or tread water economically during their controversial stints in her father’s administration. In 2017, shortly after joining the White House staff, they reported income of as much as $195 million, but that initial disclosure covered a longer period of time than the ones that followed.
The couple’s assets appreciated only modestly, if at all, over the last four years, during which the stock market climbed more than 60%. In their most recent disclosure, they listed assets worth between $206 million and $803 million, compared to a 2017 figure of between $241 million and $741 million. They listed assets worth between $203 million and $783 million last year.
The pair -- scions of family real-estate empires -- have extensive holdings in businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Kushner reported as much as $117 million in income, mostly from rent or royalties tied to residential and commercial properties he owns. He also reported $1.8 million from Westminster Management, the Kushner Company’s management firm for multifamily housing in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia & Tennessee.
Family Ties
Kushner’s disclosure shows he still holds a stake valued at between $25 million and $50 million in Cadre, the real estate technology company he co-founded. He had originally said he would divest from Cadre to eliminate a potential conflict of interest but never did.
Trump’s form disclosed her many ties to the family business, showing $1.5 million from her stake in the Trump International Hotel in Washington -- down from about $4 million a year earlier -- and another $1.5 million from several limited liability companies. Like her father, she also has a pension with the Screen Actors Guild due to her appearances on “The Apprentice.”
The form also lists Trump’s many trademarks and licensing contracts for her fashion, home goods and other businesses, but those brought in as little as $0 or up to $200. She shut down her eponymous fashion line in 2018 after retailers like Nordstrom dropped it.
The couple listed artwork valued from between $5 million and $25 million. Most of the couple’s debt comes from Kushner, who holds credit lines jointly with his father, Charles Kushner.
It's exactly the same just different
Get the fuck out of here
Allegedly
Hunter is a piece of shit junkie paid for his daddy
or this case in 1954, then what other lies are they willing to tell?
1954 Shooting in the House Chamber
On March 1, 1954, while Members gathered on the House Floor for an upcoming vote, three men and one woman entered the visitor’s gallery above the chamber and quietly took their seats. All four belonged to the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and only hours earlier had traveled from New York City to Washington, DC.
The United States had annexed Puerto Rico in 1898, and the island’s relationship with the federal government had long been a point of contention. Some Puerto Ricans sought to maintain their relationship with the mainland, and others, like the four visitors in the House that day, argued for an independent Puerto Rico.
The Capitol had few security protocols at the time, and the four Puerto Rican nationalists entered the gallery armed with handguns. Around 2:30 p.m. they indiscriminately opened fire onto the House Floor and unfurled a Puerto Rican flag in a violent act of protest meant to draw attention to their demand for Puerto Rico’s immediate independence.
Five Congressmen were wounded in the shooting.
Members, House Pages, and police officers quickly helped detain three of the assailants outside the gallery, while the fourth escaped the Capitol and was apprehended later that afternoon.