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Report: ‘Climate Czar’ John Kerry Still Owns Private Jet

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JOEL B. POLLAK

28 Jan 20214,048

2:24

Climate Envoy John Kerry reportedly still owns a private jet through a family company, even as he prepares to impose new restrictions on Americans’ use of fossil fuels, according to a report by Fox News on Wednesday evening.

Fox News reported:

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records indicate that the family of U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry owns a private jet, despite his position on combatting fossil fuels in the new administration.

The FAA’s registry shows a Gulfstream Aerospace jet owned by Flying Squirrel LLC, the name previously reported for Teresa Heinz-Kerry’s private charter jet company. The company’s listed address matches that of the Heinz Family Foundation.

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According to FAA records, the jet’s registration certificate was issued in July of 2005 and expires in October of 2023.

Fox noted that private jets are estimated to emit 40 times as much carbon per passenger as commercial jets.

Kerry, the climate “czar,” is no stranger to claims of hypocrisy. In 2010, then-Sen. Kerry (D-MA) was found to have docked his boat in Rhode Island, thereby avoiding paying some $500,000 in taxes in his home state of Massachusetts.

On Wednesday, Kerry was asked what message the administration had for workers in the oil and gas industry. He said that they would find “better choices” and other jobs, such as manufacturing solar panels.

He also admitted that even if the U.S. achieved “zero” emissions, it would not solve the problem of climate change because the vast majority of emissions come from other countries.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His newest e-book is How Not to Be a Sh!thole Country: Lessons from South Africa. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

U.S. Billionaires Boost Their Wealth by 40 Percent During Coronavirus Crisis

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JOHN BINDER

28 Jan 2021892

2:21

Billionaires in the United States have increased their wealth by nearly 40 percent since the start of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, new analysis finds.

The nation’s 660 billionaires have grown their collective net worth by $1.1 trillion since March 2020, when economic lockdowns closed small and medium-sized businesses, according to analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness.

In March 2020, U.S. billionaires had a combined net worth of just under $3 trillion. Today, that net worth has jumped to $4.1 trillion — a 38.6 percent increase in wealth for the nation’s richest one percent of earners.

At the same time, 18 million Americans remain jobless, 6.2 million are underemployed, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses have been forced to close.

The wealth growth among billionaires has been so vast that 46 former millionaires have become billionaires since the start of the crisis. Their $4.1 trillion combined wealth means that they have more money than the bottom half of earners — 165 million Americans — whose combined wealth stands at $2.4 trillion.

Specifically, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has grown his wealth by more than 60 percent since March 2020 while Tesla CEO Elon Musk has boosted his wealth by 628.5 percent. Similarly, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has raked in 23 percent more during the crisis than before and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has increased his wealth by nearly 70 percent.

The analysis shows the massive gap in economic gains and losses between the nation’s wealthiest and working and middle class Americans who have disproportionately been impacted by the crisis and the subsequent economic lockdowns various state governments have imposed.

Pew Research Center analysis from 2018 found that between the year 2000 and 2016, median household income for middle class Americans has been stagnant while the median household income for working class Americans is less than it was 16 years prior.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com.