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[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

Also, the Republicans are screaming about Hunter Biden using his father's name to get a job, but are dead silent on Trump's kids doing the same thing. Ivanka got a bunch of trademarks approved in China while her father was President. She had been trying to get them for years unsuccessfully. Then daddy becomes President and suddenly it goes through.

But that's fine, apparently, because Trump.

[-] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s worse than that. Hunter Biden may have benefitted from what most of us would call “privilege” using his name.

Jared Kushner was denied top secret clearance because the intelligence agencies believed he would be too easily leveraged by foreign powers, especially given his finances. Donald Trump hired him into an official White House job, called him a Middle East advisor, reversed the intelligence decision and gave him top secret clearance.

At the end of the administration Qatari money helped buy a 1.2 billion dollar property Kushner could not manage to sell otherwise for years. It was a well timed bailout from a group that never showed interest before trump was president.

6 months after leaving the White House Saudis invested 2 billion in a fund to managed by Kushner despite his lack of experience managing funds that size.

I’ve never heard of anything like that related to Hunter.

[-] Thief_of_Crows@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

This is true, but it's also whataboutism. It was wrong when both people did it. Presidents shouldn't be doing it at all

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