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The porn and drugs were bad, but peddling influence with foreign adversaries is a pretty big deal.


You're right, which is why it's insane Saudi Arabia handed $2 billion in investment funds to Jared Kushner months after he left the White House as a "Senior Advisor", against the advice of the fund's advisors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-in...

If you want to be shocked by influence peddling, just review what and Mr. Kushner did business with while actually being employed by the government.

https://trumpfamilyinfluencepeddling.com/jared-and-ivanka/

> Jared Kushner Held Contacts With Foreign Officials He Did Not Officially Report Or Clear With The National Security Council. “H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s national security adviser, learned that Kushner had contacts with foreign officials that he did not coordinate through the National Security Council or officially report.” [Washington Post, 02/27/18]

> Jared Kushner’s Family Courted “State-Connected Investors” To Bail Out A Kushner Property In Regions In His Government Portfolio While Working In The White House. “And since Mr. Kushner entered the White House, his family has courted state-connected investors in China and the Middle East — both regions that were in Mr. Kushner’s government portfolio — to bail out the firm’s headquarters at 666 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.” [New York Times, 10/11/19]


I think it's despicable that Hunter Biden had a position on the board of a company heavily involved with a foreign government that US foreign policy affects, while having no qualifications and while his father was vice president. Even though Joe biden's actions as VP toward Ukraine were consistent with foreign policy of the US and its allies, it still smacks of influence peddling. I would love to see a federal law prohibiting federal judges and federal elected officials families from serving on the boards of foreign operated companies.

That said,

It is insanely frustrating that people like the person you responding to come out of the woodwork to complain about aspects of the Biden presidency that pale in comparison to the obvious treason in misbehavior of the Trump presidency and of his family. It shows just how partisan people's mindsets are.


That's whataboutism. Both of these things are abhorrent and should be punished.




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