Hostile Takeover: Wall Street Assumes Command of Joe Biden Transition Team
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/joe-biden-i-need-secretary-of-treasury.html
Wall Street and the biggest U.S.
banks, after spending a fortune to unseat
President Trump, are getting key spots in Democrat Joe Biden’s transition team
that he has devised before the presidential election is certified.
Many of the big banks with links to Biden transition team
members were major donors to the former
vice president.
JOE BIDEN: A DEDICATED SERVANT OF WALL STREET, THE RICH, AND BANKSTERS….
The
Biden family is notorious for being the crookedest clan not only in Delaware,
but in D.C. DANIEL GREENFILED, FELLOW, SHILLMAN JOURNALISM, FREEDOM CENTER
The Hunter Biden laptop unrolls two ragged threads. One is the descent of Joe Biden’s son into new depths of depravity and the other are the foreign investors who bought into Joe Biden Inc.
If they can buy an election for Biden, the theory is, they can
buy it for anyone.
Oligarchies
always have lots of money even when workers go hungry and lose their homes. And
they get that money by seizing the centers of power and consuming the wealth of
nations.
GOP Senators Plan to Continue Probe into Hunter Biden’s Dealings
At least two high-ranking Republican senators plan to continue investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings even should his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, take office in January.
Sens. Ron
Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who authored a report
earlier this year detailing the potential conflicts of interest between Hunter
Biden’s foreign ties and his father’s political influence, will keep pursuing
the matter after the new Congress takes office next year.
Johnson, who currently chairs the Senate’s
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has begun telling news
outlets that he will not “turn a blind eye” to recent revelations about the
Biden family just because the 2020 election had passed.
“Tony
Bobulinski coming forward, the computer being revealed, the FBI possibly
starting an investigation,” Johnson told the Hill over the weekend. “We
had a hard enough time getting what evidence we got to even write a report, and
then all of a sudden our report sort of opened up this logjam.”
“I’m very confident there are
probably more financial transactions that will probably be revealed,” the
senator added.
Similarly, Grassley, who currently
chairs the Senate Finance Committee, has asked the Department of Justice (DOJ)
in recent days to make public any documents pertaining to Hunter Biden’s
overseas interest. The Iowa lawmaker, specifically, has asked Attorney General
William Barr whether any member of the Biden family sought guidance on whether
their international business ventures complied with the Foreign Agents
Registration Act (FARA).
Although both Grassley and Johnson
are set to leave their current chairmanships in January, they plan to continue
looking into the Biden family from other perches within the United States
Senate.
Provided that Republicans retain
control of the chamber, Johnson will use his position as the incoming chairman
of the Homeland Security Committee’s permanent subcommittee on investigations
to keep his probe going. Grassley, likewise, will rely on his status as the
incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Last month, Tony Bobulinski, a
one-time business associate of Hunter Biden, came forward to accuse the former
vice president of lying about his involvement in his son’s dealings. Bobulinski
claims that he met the Bidens in 2017 and became involved in a venture with
Hunter and the former vice president’s younger brother, James.
Since coming
forward, Bobulinski has agreed to cooperate with the Homeland Security
Committee. Bobulinksi also told the Sinclair Broadcast Group in late-October
that he was interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding
Hunter’s tenure on the
board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas conglomerate.
Biden to Continue Obama Tradition of Packing White House with Corporate Lobbyists
A central component of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign was his pledge to rid the executive branch of corporate lobbyists. Obama didn't exactly follow through on that pledge, and his White House was crawling with lobbyists from day one.
Not that it mattered. The media were not very interested in following up. They just took Obama's word for it, and by 2012 they were writing stories about how lobbyists were poised to make a comeback if Mitt Romney became president.
With Joe Biden poised to take office in 2021, reports suggest he plans to follow in Obama's footsteps by hiring a bunch of corporate lobbyists in senior roles.
At least two former lobbyists who will assume top roles in the Biden administration previously served on Biden's staff during the Obama administration. Steve Ricchetti, who served as then-Vice President Biden's chief of staff, will join the White House as counselor to the president. Ricchetti founded his own lobbying firm in 2001 and worked on behalf of corporate clients such as AT&T, Eli Lily, and the American Bankers Association.
Ron Klain, who also served as then-Vice President Biden's chief of staff, will take on the role of White House chief of staff in the Biden administration. Klain is a veteran of the K Street lobbying firm O'Melveny & Myers. His clients included U.S. Airways, AOL Time Warner, and ImClone, a pharmaceutical company whose CEO was convicted for fraud. Klain also lobbied on behalf of mortgage giant Fannie Mae in an effort to fight off stricter oversight from Congress.
Rep. Cedric Richmond (D., La.) will also join the Biden administration in a senior advisory role. The move was blasted by environmental groups that pointed out Richmond's close ties to Big Oil. During his 10 years in Congress, for example, Richmond received more than $340,000 in donations from the oil and gas industry and frequently joined Republicans in voting against legislation opposed by the industry.
Biden's campaign manager, Jen O'Malley Dillon, will join the incoming administration as a deputy chief of staff. She is a cofounder of Precision Strategies, an "integrated strategy and marketing agency" that was recently hired by the American Investment Council, a lobbying group for private equity firms.
Old habits, as the saying goes, die hard.
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