Saturday, January 23, 2021

BIDEN'S CRONY CAPITALISM - One of Biden's first priorities was to re-establish corrupt slush funds for political supporters


Schweizer: ‘It’s Going to Be Business as Usual’ for Hunter’s Dealings

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On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer said he reads President Biden’s statements about his son Hunter’s deals as a declaration that “it’s going to be business as usual in the Biden administration as far as these deals are concerned.”

Schweizer said, “Joe Biden has said there are going to be no sketchy overseas deals during his second term. Here’s the problem: He does not believe that the early deals that Hunter was involved in, the China deal, Burisma, he’s never described those as sketchy. So, I read that as saying, it’s going to be business as usual in the Biden administration as far as these deals are concerned.”

Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett


Labor Pick Paid Biden-Linked Firm Tens of Thousands Prior to Nomination

Boston's Marty Walsh has paid Anita Dunn's firm $90k since September

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Boston mayor Marty Walsh (D.) / Getty Images

Months before President Joe Biden tapped Boston mayor Marty Walsh to head the Department of Labor, Walsh began using campaign funds to make large payments to the D.C. consulting firm founded by top Biden adviser Anita Dunn.

Walsh's campaign first paid Dunn's firm, Democratic communications giant SKDKnickerbocker, $18,000 in early September in "consulting" fees. Just one day after receiving Walsh's payment, Dunn—who led Biden's presidential campaign and serves as SKDK's managing director—joined the Biden transition team as one of four national co-chairs.

Walsh went on to send SKDK an additional $72,000 in consulting fees over a three-month span, with the most recent $18,000 payment coming in late December. Just two weeks later, Biden chose Walsh to lead the Department of Labor. Biden then selected Dunn to serve as a senior White House adviser one week after Walsh's nomination.

This is not the first time SKDK has taken lucrative payments from a state official looking to cozy up to national Democrats ahead of a career-advancing appointment. Former California secretary of state Alex Padilla awarded the firm a $35 million no-bid contract in August and fought to pay out the deal when the state's chief fiscal officer refused to approve it. California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) picked Padilla to fill Vice President Kamala Harris's Senate seat in December.

Walsh's payments were a rarity for SKDK, which does not often work in Massachusetts state politics. Walsh had never previously employed the firm and became the first state politician to do so in nearly two years. The Democrat in October told the Boston Herald that he hired SKDK to "prepare for what is ahead for 2021" while he "fully engaged in City Hall work." Walsh had not declared his intention to seek a third mayoral term in November 2021 at the time. His SKDK disbursements were his largest to a single vendor during the months of September, November, and December—Walsh paid just one other out-of-state vendor over those three months.

The Biden administration did not return a request for comment. An SKDK spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon the firm is "proud to have provided strategic consulting and communications support to Marty Walsh's reelection campaign for Mayor of Boston," adding that Dunn "was on leave from the firm when Mayor Walsh hired SKDK and did not not work on the campaign at any point."

Dunn has long enjoyed close ties to Biden. She served as White House communications director under former president Barack Obama prior to leading Biden's presidential campaign, which paid SKDK more than $2.2 million over the course of the 2020 election. The firm touted Dunn's selection as senior White House adviser, writing that "there's no one better to help restore the soul of our nation" in a Friday tweet. SKDK's website currently features a graphic thanking "Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and all of our clients who fought for the soul of the nation."

Walsh has faced criticism for controversial campaign payments in the past. He funneled nearly $1.2 million to a consulting firm where his longtime girlfriend works as a fundraising consultant. The payments came shortly before Walsh's girlfriend joined the firm and grew from $5,000 per month in 2014 to more than $14,000 per month in 2020. Walsh's mayoral campaign holds more than $5.6 million on hand, state finance records show.

Walsh joined the Massachusetts congressional delegation to attend Biden's inauguration on Wednesday. His Senate confirmation hearing has not been scheduled.

One of Biden's first priorities was to re-establish corrupt slush funds for political supporters

President Trump got rid of the Obama/Biden slush funds where the Justice Department, CFPB and EPA shook down corporations and then used the negotiated settlements that they were forced to pay (taxpayer money) to funnel kickbacks to their political supporters.

But one of Biden’s first priorities was to reestablish these corrupt slush funds.  Why didn’t the media highlight this magnificent, corrupt, first day action? The answer is clearly that the complicit media will gladly hide anything from the public that might shed a bad light on their chosen one.

It is the same reason they always buried the stories of pure corruption by the Biden and Clinton families. The politicians that most of the media are campaigning for and contributing to are special. They can take as many kickbacks and violate as many laws as they like and lie with impunity and the loving media will support them. The truth hasn’t mattered for a long time to people who pretend to be fact-based journalists.

Joe Biden's DOJ To Resume Extorting Money From Corporations To Benefit Leftist Groups

In the first set of Executive Orders signed today by Joe Biden was the reversal of a DOJ policy put in place by Attorney General Jeff Sessions which prohibited provisions in settlement agreements in civil litigation that directed the opposing party to pay the money from the settlement to some third-party interest group that DOJ believed could put the money to better use than having it go into the Treasury of the United States. 

Why wasn’t there front page and wall-to-wall coverage of the violent riots in Portland, Seattle and other places on Election Day by radical leftists? The answer, of course, is violence by leftists never matters when the media is pushing an agenda. When an MSNBC reporter stands in front of a burning building and describes it as mostly peaceful, we know that facts mean nothing to propagandists.

We all know that if any group remotely associated with Trump committed a sliver of the violence that the media and other Democrats predicted and hyped for Election Day, the coverage would be massive and the calls for impeachment would compound. Should VP Kamala Harris be impeached since she promoted and supported the violence and bailing out the criminals? Biden sat silently by with all the violence last summer until the polls said he should say something.

Why didn’t journalists ask Biden for scientific evidence showing that there is a correlation between oil, temperatures, sea levels and storm activities when he revoked the permit for the Keystone Pipeline? The answer is that science and facts have never mattered when Democrats are pushing an agenda to remake and destroy America. They, along with the loving journalists, gladly spread misinformation to the children and others without any evidence. And they call anyone who disagrees and tells the truth that the climate has always changed cyclically and naturally a liar, a denier, anti-science and stupid. They are cancelled and silenced to hide the truth. Debate is not allowed.

Why didn’t we constantly hear the term “systemic racism” while Obama and Biden were in office, since we are told that we have been racist for 400 years? The answer is that the media and other Democrats know that the statement isn’t true.

Why didn’t Biden take care of the systemic racism problem in his first fifty years in DC if the problem is so bad? Why would anyone believe it will be different now?

For the last four years we have been treated to a hate fest by the media and other Democrats where they demonized Trump and his supporters with lies and every vicious name in the book. They called Trump an illegitimate President, said he stole the election, conducted witch hunts about Russian collusion and continually spread lies about what Trump said in Charlottesville to gin up hate and violence. They sought to destroy white Christian boys and Judge Kavanaugh with known lies.

And they blame Trump and his supporters for dividing the country while they falsely claim they are uniters who are the empathetic party.

For the Obama/Biden eight years and for the next four years of Biden/Harris we will be treated to a love fest. The truth, science, the law and corruption will not matter. 

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