Harvey Weinstein Adviser’s Secret Role in Biden WH Raises Ethics Concerns
How Anita Dunn is 'creating the appearance of being an influence peddler'
President Joe Biden secretly hired the public relations titan who provided "damage control" advice to disgraced Hollywood rapist Harvey Weinstein, raising concern among ethics experts, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
Anita Dunn played a leading role in Biden's presidential campaign, and previously served in the White House as a senior communications adviser before returning to SKDK, her powerhouse political strategy firm, in August 2021. According to the Post, she returned to the White House earlier this month for a secret "one-week assignment at the personal request of Biden himself," as the president prepared to deliver his first State of the Union address and struggled to respond coherently to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Ethics experts are concerned about Dunn's role, especially given the extent of SKDK's influence within the Biden administration and the Democratic Party. In addition to Dunn, at least eight former SKDK employees are currently working in the Biden administration. At least eight current employees previously served in government before joining or rejoining the firm, which represents a variety of Fortune 500 companies, foreign governments, and Democratic candidates.
"This is a person who is appointed in and out of alternating roles, between being a public official with significant influence over administration policy and a private adviser, creating the appearance of being an influence peddler," said Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics.
Because Dunn was classified as a temporary "special government employee," she was exempt from most White House ethics requirements, including a rule that prohibits former staffers from taking part in lobbying efforts for one year. Because her prorated salary was slightly less than $132,552 annually, Dunn did not have to file a public financial disclosure that would have required her to reveal information about her SKDK clients and how much they were paying her.
Not to worry, though. A "person close to Dunn" insisted that neither she nor her firm "lobby or represent any clients on matters before the federal government." White House spokesman Chris Meagher said Dunn had received "rigorous counseling on her ethics obligations," and argued (unpersuasively) that her salary level was not deliberately calculated to avoid public disclosure requirements.
With Dunn's help, Biden based his 2020 campaign on the premise that he would restore decency and honor to Washington, D.C., and would not stand for the self-dealing and lobbyist influence that, in his view, pervaded the Trump administration. He also promised to "shut down" the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to her work in the Biden administration, Dunn was an early adviser to then-senator Barack Obama (D., Ill.) in 2006 as he prepared to run for president, and served several months as White House communications director in 2009. Her husband, Bob Bauer, served as White House counsel from 2010 to 2011. After leaving the Obama administration and rejoining SKDK, Dunn helped orchestrate a "comprehensive public affairs operation" to "raise awareness about the positive role hedge funds play in the American economy."
BuzzFeed reported in October 2016 that Dunn was one of the many public relations professionals sought by Harvey Weinstein for "damage control advice" amid a series of damning reports on his long history of sexual predation in Hollywood. According to a statement released by her firm, Dunn had been "asked to speak with [Weinstein] by a friend," and was not paid for her advice.
Weinstein is one of the most prominent Democratic Party patrons to be exposed as a sexual deviant in recent years. The disgraced film mogul was convicted of rape in February 2020 and sentenced to 23 years in prison, unlike Democratic donor Jeffrey Epstein, who "killed himself" in August 2019 before he could stand trial on sex trafficking charges.
In addition to advising the Hollywood rapist, Dunn has also expressed an affinity for the political philosophy of Mao Zedong, the founder of Chinese communism whose authoritarian regime was responsible for the deaths of at least 65 million people.
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Proof has emerged from the White House that Biden’s presidency is over
Barack Obama was at the White House yesterday, making it clear, as did others at the reception held in Obama’s honor, that Biden’s presidency is over. Watching Obama suck the oxygen out of the room made me wonder if Obama is planning a comeback, something he can easily do.
The ostensible reason for Obama’s return to the White House was to celebrate Obamacare’s twelfth anniversary (if you can celebrate our modern, cowardly, corporate-run “medical care,” along with overpriced insurance that does little for people with serious health issues). The reception in Obama’s honor, though, hinted that the event’s real purpose was to signal to Democrat apparatchiks that Biden is now shark chum.
The chumming process began when Obama referred to Biden as the “Vice President,” adding, after a long pause, “that was a joke.”
Well, I guess it was a joke, in the same way a mean husband is joking when he says to his wife, “That dress makes you look like a cute circus elephant,” and then tries to avoid her wrath by insisting, “That was a joke. I meant you look cute.” No, it wasn’t a joke. Biden, showing the deference of the Beta male to the Alpha male (or the abused wife to her abuser), later introduced himself as Obama’s Vice President and “Jill Biden’s husband.”
Self-deprecating humor when you’re allegedly the president of what is (was?) the world’s most powerful nation isn’t charming; it’s unnerving. Worse was still to come. Normally, everyone in the room should be clamoring to be near the American president. After all, political power is the strongest magnetic force in the world. But in Biden’s case, he was the creep at the party, the one everyone assiduously ignores and avoids:
Not only was Obama the magnetic force in the room, but he also made it clear to all that they should shun Biden:
Watching Biden paw at Obama’s shoulder, only to have Obama aggressively ignore him is uncomfortable viewing. Even if Obama has no respect for the man (and who would, given Biden’s stupidity, incompetence, and corruption?), Obama, of all people, should show respect for the office.
But for Obama, the point of the presidency was never about the office itself; it was always about the fact that Obama bestowed glory on the office. No wonder, then, that his speech, as always, was peppered with his favorite pronouns. No “he/him” for Obama; it’s always “I/me.”
Meanwhile, an animated Kamala Harris also assiduously ignored her boss. For her, Obama was the only man in the room.
There are three takeaways:
1. Barack Obama, whether in his walled D.C. Kalorama home or in his coastal properties in Martha’s Vineyard or Hawaii, is probably the one running the White House show.
2. Obama has signaled that Biden’s presidency is over, making Biden toxic. That’s the message Tucker Carlson drew, something he illustrated with clips showing Democrat media talking heads finally addressing Biden’s economic failures:
3. Kamala Harris still thinks she has a shot at the presidency when (not if) Biden is removed. She was auditioning hard for the job, trying to show Obama that she’ll do better than Biden at preserving and expanding the hard-left Obama legacy. However, Obama, who is an extremely smart politician, despite his ignorance and broken, Marxist moral compass, knows that Kamala is as bad as, or even worse than, Biden.
And that fact left me with an admittedly wild theory about how Obama may intend to fix things: Obama’s aiming to get back into the Oval Office.
My premise is that Obama fully understands that, if Biden is ousted immediately under the 25th Amendment, there are only idiots and incompetents to take his place. If it’s not Kamala Harris, then it’s Nancy Pelosi and, if not her, then Patrick Leahy, Antony Blinken, Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Merrick Garland.... Obama knows none of these nonentities will secure the transformation he promised America. Instead, there are three steps to return Obama to the presidency:
1. Have the Democrat establishment remove Kamala Harris from office, whether through threats or bribes.
2. Have the Democrats declare that, because world instability (Ukraine, Putin, China) puts us at unprecedented risk, only a politically seasoned person can be Vice President, with Obama graciously accepting that role.
3. Oust Biden using the 25th Amendment. And voila! President Obama (again). He can even have Stacey Abrams as his veep.
The 22nd Amendment does not bar Obama from regaining the presidency this way. It only stops him from being “elected to the office.” The three steps above avoid an election.
Obama will then have two-and-a-half years to lock down America’s “fundamental transformation” into a fully socialized, third-world country, and Biden has given him a head start when it comes to destroying institutions. Heck, if Obama does the job right, he can be the new Putin or Erdogan: America’s President for Life.
And yes, I agree this sounds crazy, but events since 2020 show that we really are nothing more than a fancy banana republic.
Image: Obama ignores Biden. Twitter screen grab.
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