Cotton: ‘Joe Biden Cannot Be Trusted to Protect This Country from the Chinese Communist Party’
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During an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity on Thursday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) warned against trusting former Vice President Joe Biden, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, to handle U.S. policy with regards to China, especially in the midst of a coronavirus threat that emerged from the Asian communist nation.
Cotton explained that China’s track record of “dishonesty” was something that Biden had missed during his years as vice president in addition to being a critic of President Donald Trump’s efforts to limit the threat of coronavirus in the United States.
“In light of how China has unleashed this plague on the entire world through their dishonesty and their lack of transparency and corruption — it’s even more urgent that we examine Joe Biden’s decade-long record of being wrong on China,” he said. “This is not ancient history, either. Just last year, Joe Biden said the Chinese Communist Party’s full of good folks, and they’re not a competitor to the United States. Last month, when President Trump shut down travel from China, which is the single-most important step our government has taken to arresting the spread of the Chinese coronavirus here, Joe Biden called it ‘xenophobic.’ Joe Biden cannot be trusted to protect this country from the Chinese Communist Party.”
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Josh
Hawley: Legislation ‘Necessary’ to Address Chinese Monopoly of U.S. Drug,
Medical Supplies
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) wrote a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) Monday, contending that it is “inexcusable” that America
relies on China for its medical supply chain. Hawley called hearings and
legislation to determine how to address America’s reliance on Chinese for
producing vital medicine.
The Missouri conservative wrote a letter to U.S. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn after
reports revealed that the coronavirus has jeopardized the “domestic supply of
some 150 prescription drugs, including antibiotics, generics, and branded
drugs.”
Hawley said that the time is coming for Congress to have
oversight and consider legislation to address the insecurity of America’s
medical supply chain.
The degree to which some of our own manufacturers rely on China
to produce life-saving and life-sustaining medications is inexcusable. It is
becoming clear to me that both oversight hearings and additional legislation are
necessary to determine the extent of our reliance on Chinese production and
protect our medical product supply chain.
Reports have revealed the extent to which China produces and exports the
overwhelming majority of pharmaceuticals to the United States. China exports 97
percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of active ingredients used to make
drugs in Americans.
Another report stated that America is losing its ability to make pharmaceuticals
because of Chinese dumping of low-price products into the global market.
Rosemary Gibson, the author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of
America’s Dependence on China for Medicine, told Breitbart
News Tonight host Rebecca Mansour that America should pursue a
federal industrial policy to renew domestic manufacturing of medicines and
medical products.
I would have our federal government invest in helping to rebuild
our industrial base using advanced manufacturing technology that can produce
our medicines much more cheaply, safely, with less environmental footprint, and
fully, from soup to nuts from those core raw materials to finished drug in one
location all here in the United States.
There will be opponents who say, ‘No, we should let the market
do it.’ The market will never do this. They’ll never make this investment. So
we have to decide as a country, do we want to have some degree of
self-sufficiency in our ability to make medicine? Do we want our military not
to be dependent on China for pharmaceuticals to treat chemical and biological
agents?
Gibson added, “We’ll be depending on China to help us out when
we run out of medicines. The absurdity of it is extraordinary. We have to
decide as a country, do we want to have some capacity to make our own
medicines, or not?”
Josh
Hawley Introduces Legislation to Expose Chinese Monopoly of U.S. Drug, Medical
Supplies
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced
the Medical Supply Chain Security Act on Thursday to combat potential American
drug shortages created in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in China and to
reveal America’s reliance on Chinese manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and
medical devices.
Sen. Hawley said in a statement that
the legislation would provide the country with the information necessary to
secure the medical supply chain. He explained:
The coronavirus outbreak in China
has highlighted severe and longstanding weaknesses in our medical supply chain.
This is more than unfortunate; it’s a danger to public health. Our health
officials need to know the extent of our reliance on Chinese production so they
can take all necessary action to protect Americans. This legislation will give
us the information we need to better secure our supply chain and ensure that
Americans have uninterrupted access to life-saving drugs and medical devices.
The spread of the coronavirus
throughout China has exposed the deep vulnerabilities in the U.S. medical
supply chain as well as the country’s dependence upon China producing pharmaceuticals
and medical devices.
Axios reported that the coronavirus outbreak has jeopardized the American
supply of roughly 150 pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, generics, and
brand-name drugs. Some of these drugs do not have alternatives on the market.
China exports 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of active
ingredients used to make drugs in America. America is losing its ability
to make pharmaceuticals because of Chinese dumping of low-price products
into the global market.
Public health officials at the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) currently have limited resources for assessing
supply chain vulnerabilities. The FDA recently asked Congress for more
statutory authority to require that manufacturers notify the agency when they
discover circumstances that may lead to shortages in essential medical devices.
Giving the FDA more authority would allow the agency to ensure that they can
take the necessary steps to mitigate potential shortages of life-saving drugs
and medical devices.
Hawley’s legislation would:
- Require that manufacturers report
imminent or forecasted shortages of medical devices to the FDA as they
currently do for pharmaceutical drugs.
- Allow the FDA to expedite the review of
essential medical devices that require pre-market approval in the event of
expected shortages reported by a manufacturer.
- Grant the FDA additional authority to
request additional information from manufacturers of essential drugs or
devices regarding their manufacturing capacity, including sourcing of
component parts, sourcing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, use of raw
materials, and any other details the FDA might find relevant to assess the
security of the American medical supply chain.
Hawley’s legislation follows as the Missouri populist wrote a letter this week to FDA
Commissioner Stephen Hahn, asking Hahn what actions he and the agency can take
to ensure that American citizens do not face shortages of life-saving drugs and
medical drugs.
The Missouri senator said Tuesday
that the coronavirus outbreak has proved that America needs to “stop relying on
China for our critical medical supply chains.”
If
the #Coronavirus crisis makes anything clear, it’s that we
need to stop relying on #China for our critical medical supply chains. I
will introduce legislation this week to jump start that effort. Details to
follow https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/world/asia/coronavirus-news.html?referringSource=articleShare …
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Rosemary Gibson, the author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks
of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine, recently told Breitbart
News Tonight host Rebecca Mansour that the United States
should pursue an industrial policy to renew domestic manufacturing of medicines
and medical products in the homeland.
I would have our federal government
invest in helping to rebuild our industrial base using advanced manufacturing
technology that can produce our medicines much more cheaply, safely, with less
environmental footprint, and fully, from soup to nuts from those core raw
materials to finished drug in one location all here in the United States.
Hawley also said Tuesday that the
Donald Trump administration should consider additional travel restrictions to
combat the spread of the coronavirus throughout the United States.
“This is a no-brainer. It’s not just
China any longer. With the rise of cases in Europe & Asia, we need to take
additional steps to protect Americans,” Hawley tweeted.
This
is a no-brainer. It’s not just China any longer. With the rise of cases in
Europe & Asia, we need to take additional steps to protect Americans https://twitter.com/kylieatwood/status/1232654412440625152 …
Hawley Introduces Security
Bill Addressing Data, Privacy Concerns
November 19, 2019 Updated: November 19, 2019
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A bill (pdf) to fight the flow of Americans’ sensitive
personal data to China and other countries that threaten
national security was introduced on Nov. 18 by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in
the wake of a hearing that raised concerns over Chinese-owned video-sharing
app TikTok.
TikTok had said it’s hired a U.S.-based auditing firm to analyze the
app’s data security practices, in a letter to lawmakers at a Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee hearing chaired by Hawley on Nov. 5.
During the hearing, Hawley said all it
would take is “one knock on the door of their parent company based
in China from a Communist Party official” for the data to be sent to
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He requested that TikTok executives testify
before the panel—nobody showed up.
Beijing-based ByteDance Technology Co., which owns TikTok, is facing a
national security review over its $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media
app Musical.ly in 2017.
“Current law makes it far too easy for
hostile foreign governments like China to access Americans’ sensitive
data,” Hawley said in a Nov. 18 statement. “Chinese companies with vast
amounts of personal data on Americans are required
by Chinese law to provide that data to Chinese intelligence
services.”
“If your child uses TikTok, there’s a chance the Chinese Communist Party
knows where they are, what they look like, what their voices sound like, and
what they’re watching,” he continued. “That’s a feature TikTok doesn’t
advertise.”
In TikTok’s letter to lawmakers, TikTok U.S. General Manager
Vanessa Pappas said the company stores all U.S. user data in the United States,
with backup redundancy in Singapore. While TikTok claims the Chinese regime
doesn’t have jurisdiction over the content of the app, lawmakers have noted
that ByteDance is governed by Chinese laws.
Hawley said U.S. companies operating in China also have these risks, as
Chinese law allows the communist regime to seize data from American companies
operating in China “whenever it wants, for whatever reason it wants.” The
legislation names China and Russia specifically over concerns relating
to data privacy and security.
In order to enter the Chinese market, some American companies agree
to give sensitive data to Beijing in exchange. FBI Director
Christopher Wray testified that Chinese law “compels U.S. companies that
are operating in China … to provide whatever information the government wants,
whenever it wants.”
“We should expect foreign surveillance
efforts from China to use platforms like TikTok because they are more modern
and attract a younger, easily influenceable crowd,” Charity Wright, a
cyber threat intelligence adviser at IntSights with 15 years of experience with
the U.S. Army and the National Security Agency, told The Epoch Times
earlier this month.
The Chinese communist regime has representatives in almost every large
company in China, Wright said. The concerns over TikTok come amid broader
anxiety over forced technology transfers from U.S. companies to Chinese
authorities and intellectual property theft.
Over the past 12 months, TikTok has been
downloaded more than 750 million times, according to research firm
Sensor Tower; which is
more than new users of Facebook, Youtube, or Snapchat in the same time period.
In the first quarter of this year, TikTok was the most downloaded application worldwide on the app store.
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALLS OF
CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT PUT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN HER POCKETS.
SHE HAS AVOIDED PROSECUTION BY VOTING AGAINST ANY ETHICS BILLS
AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM'S HANDING OUT "CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION"
BRIBES TO EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT THERE!
IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional
ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules
Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the
ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been
beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics
experts.
“All
in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has
done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and
Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with
third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by
its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
Everything we know about Hunter Biden's business connections in
China
Alexandra Ma
·
President Donald Trump this week suggested that Hunter Biden had
used his position as then-Vice President Joe Biden's son to secure a $1.5
billion deal with the Chinese state bank for a Chinese private equity company
where he is a board member.
·
There is no evidence to this claim.
·
The $1.5 billion appears to refer to a sum that BHR, the private
equity firm, was trying to raise in 2014 to invest outside China, according to The
Wall Street Journal.
·
But Biden's lawyer said Biden has never profited from his work
at BHR.
·
Here's what we know about Hunter Biden's business dealings in
China.
The global business dealings of Hunter Biden, the son of former
Vice President Joe Biden, have been thrust into the spotlight after President
Donald Trump suggested without evidence that the father and son had engaged in
corruption in Ukraine and China.
Trump on Thursday openly called on
China to
investigate the Bidens, suggesting — without evidence — that
China had given $1.5 billion to a Chinese private equity firm where Hunter
Biden was a board member to secure favorable deals with the US while Joe Biden
was Vice President.
President Trump: "China should start an investigation into
the Bidens because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened
with Ukraine. So, I would say that President Zelensky, if it were me, I would
recommend that they start an investigation into the Bidens." pic.twitter.com/Xia8vLUVT2
Here's what we know about the background of this allegation.
·
Biden
has been a board member at BHR Equity Investment Fund Management Company, a
Chinese state-backed private equity firm, since late 2013, according to The New York
Times and the South China
Morning Post.
·
In
2017, Biden bought 10% of the company for about $420,000, The Times reported.
·
The
$1.5 billion Trump cited on Thursday appears to refer to a sum that BHR was
trying to raise in 2014 to invest outside China, as The Wall Street
Journal reported at the
time.
·
That
sum appeared in "Secret Empires," a book published last year that
criticized Biden's business activities, The Journal
reported.
·
Peter
Schweizer, the author, said BHR "would seal a highly unusual $1.5 billion
deal with funding from the Chinese government" after Biden flew to Beijing
aboard Air Force Two at the time.
·
Trump
has praised the book in the past, The Journal reported.
·
Trump
on Thursday suggested that Biden used his position as the vice president's
son to secure the money from China's state-owned bank, and made millions in the
process, the South China
Morning Post reported.
·
But
Biden's lawyer George Mesires said earlier this week that Biden had never been
paid for sitting on BHR's board, and has not received any payouts from his
investment, according to The Times and The Washington
Post.
·
BHR
has removed all photos of Hunter Biden from its website, the South China
Morning Post reported on Saturday. BBHR has not yet responded to Business
Insider's request for confirmation and comment on the date of the photo's
removal.
Mesires has not yet responded to Business Insider's request for
comment on Biden's current role and responsibility at BHR Partners.
BHR has not yet responded to Business Insider's request for comment
on Biden's role and responsibility at the firm.
Hunter
Biden’s Firms Scored Reportedly Hundreds of Millions from Russians, Chinese,
and Kazakhs
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Hunter Biden, son of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, has
come under scrutiny for his business links to Ukrainian natural gas firm
Burisma while his father was vice president.
Now, a new book by author Peter Schweizer reveals Hunter Biden
forged other business deals with individuals and entities tied with the
governments of Russia, China, and Kazakhstan, that reportedly scored him
hundreds of millions of dollars.
The book, titled Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by
America’s Progressive Elite., lays out how
Hunter Biden and his business partners, in addition to his numerous
Rosemont-branded entities and ventures, was deeply involved with an entity
called the Burnham Financial Group.
Hunter and his business partner, Devon Archer, used Burnham to
make foreign deals with governments and oligarchs, according to a copy of
the book viewed by Breitbart News.
One of those oligarchs included Nurlan Abduov, the associate of
another Kazakh oligarch, Kenges Rakishev. Rakishev is the son-in-law of the
former vice prime minister of Kazakhstan, Imangali Tasmagambetov. Tasmagamvetov
was also formerly the defense minister, and is now the Kazakh ambassador
to Russia.
According to the book, an account Hunter regularly received
funds from showed money arriving from a firm run by Rakishev in 2014:
A Morgan Stanley investment account from which Hunter regularly
received funds shows money arriving from mysterious
sources around the world. There is a $142,300 deposit in April 2014 from Kazakh oligarch–controlled Novatus Holdings. Kenges
Rakishev, whose father-in-law is the former vice prime minister of Kazakhstan and a close ally of Kazakh dictator Nursultan
Nazarbayev, runs the offshore firm.
sources around the world. There is a $142,300 deposit in April 2014 from Kazakh oligarch–controlled Novatus Holdings. Kenges
Rakishev, whose father-in-law is the former vice prime minister of Kazakhstan and a close ally of Kazakh dictator Nursultan
Nazarbayev, runs the offshore firm.
While Burnham received funds from Kazakh oligarchs, Archer acted
as a backchannel between Kazakhstan to then-Secretary of State John Kerry,
according to the book. (Kerry’s stepson Chris Heinz was a business partner with
Biden and Archer in some of their ventures).
In a July 11, 2013, email, Kerry’s chief of staff David Wade
wrote to Archer:
Devon: understand you spoke to the Secretary re having him call
[Kazakh] Foreign Minister Idrisov today, can you let me know topics Idrisov
wants to talk about/any requests he’ll have of the boss, so we can get paper
prepared for a call. Hopefully, the situation on the home front will leave him
time to do it.
Burnham also had business deals with two mysterious Chinese
companies — Kirin Global Enterprses Limited and Harvest Global Investors,
according to the book.
Kirin Global Enterprise Limited was an investment vehicle
run by Xiangyao (or Yaojun) “Larry” Liu and Guo Jianfeng, according to
Schweizer. “Very little is known about Kirin or its two principals, other than
the fact that they invest heavily in mainland Chinese real estate,” he writes.
Harvest Global Investors was a Chinese investment firm linked to the government
in Beijing.
Burnham also had a financial relationship with Russian Oligarch
Yelena Baturina, a billionaire with extensive political connections in Moscow
and links to Russian organized crime, according to Schweizer. Archer said
Baturina invested $200 million into “various investment funds” with which he
was involved.
Burnham also got wrapped up in a $60 million fraudulent bond
scheme to rip off union pension funds and the poorest Indian tribe in America,
the Oglala Sioux, Schweizer writes.
In May 2016, Archer was arrested in New York and charged with
“orchestrating a scheme to defraud investors and a Native American tribal
entity of tens of millions of dollars.”
Some of the targeted were government employee or labor union
organizations that had supported Joe Biden in the past. Biden has long
described himself as a “union man.”
Although Hunter Biden was not charged, Schweizer writes, “his
fingerprints were all over Burnham.” The legitimacy that his name and political
status as the vice president’s son lent to Burnham was brought up repeatedly
during the trial, he writes.
That status was used as a means of both recruiting pension money
into the scheme and alleviating investors’ concerns, he writes. In
an August 2014 email, Jason Galanis, who was convicted in the bond scheme,
agreed that Burnham had “value beyond capital” because of their political
connections.
Hunter Biden had an office at Burnham’s New York City offices on
Fifty-Seventh Street, and during the trial, numerous witnesses came forward
describing Hunter’s involvement with the firm, according to the book.
Schweizer writes these deals have long been a pattern with the
Biden family, to include Hunter Biden:
With the election of his father as vice president, Hunter Biden
launched businesses fused to his father’s power that led him to lucrative deals
with a rogue’s gallery of governments and oligarchs around the world. Sometimes
he would hitch a prominent ride with his father aboard Air Force Two to visit a
country where he was courting business. Other times, the deals would be done
more discreetly. Always they involved foreign entities that appeared to be
seeking something from his father. Often, the countries in question, including
Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan, had highly corrupt political cultures.
In short, Hunter Biden was not cutting business deals in Japan
or Great Britain, where disclosure rules and corporate governance might require
greater scrutiny. These were deals in the truly dark corners of the world.
Is Dianne Feinstein out to kill off Kamala Harris's presidential
bid?
Kamala Harris has always
been known for her lean and hungry, pushy, grabby, ambition, which
includes a willingness to sleep her way to the top to
get what she wants. Her political start began as a social mountaineer
with San Francisco's old-money Pacific Heights set dating from her 20s and then just moved
onward and upward.
That's not sitting well
with California's lizardy old-money senior Senator, Dianne Feinstein, who
knows that establishment well.
BLOG: BIDEN AND FEINSTEIN GO WAY BACK WITH THEIR RED CHINA FOR RAW CASH DEALS SIPHONED THROUGH HER HUSBAND AND HIS SON.
According to reports,
Feinstein, the senior senator from the Golden State, will throw a
fundraiser next month for Democratic 2020 presidential frontrunner Joe Biden -- and not for
Harris, another White House contender whose poll numbers suggest she could
probably use some high-profile help.
BLOG: WHAT FEINSTEIN MEANS IS THAT OL' BIDEN IS AS CORRUPT AS
SHE IS ANY DAY!
“My candidate would be
Joe Biden,” Feinstein told CNBC back then. “I watched him as vice president.
I’ve seen him operate. I’ve seen him perform and I think he brings a level of
experience and seniority, which I think is really important.”
The early evening
reception will be the first that Feinstein hosts for Biden in the 2020
election, CNBC reported. Her husband has already participated in several
fundraising events for Biden, who campaigned for Feinstein in 2018, when she was
re-elected by a landslide.
Oh, spare us. Feinstein
knows as well as anyone that old Joe is addled and gaffe-tastic. This is more
likely about putting Kamala back in her place.
Fox News speculated that
this fundraiser among the fatcat donors might just have been payback for
Harris's nasty first-debate attack all but accusing Biden of being a Bull
Conner racist. Remember Harris's phony earnestness in: "That little
girl was me"?
Sure, it's possible.
But it's also been known for close to a year that Feinstein considers
Harris a wretched parvenu who hasn't paid her dues.
Remember this?
“I’m a big fan of Sen.
Harris, and I work with her. But she’s brand-new here, so it takes a little bit
of time to get to know somebody,” Feinstein said of the junior senator, according
to the Los Angeles Times.
Her press secretary told
CNN that Feinstein later added that she certainly likes her California
colleague, saying, “Oh, I love Kamala.”
Translation in a plummy
accent: Do we know her?
Hard to get a better
old-money passive-aggressive remark than that one. People are either known or
unknown in Feinstein's rich circles and it's pretty obvious to Feinstein
that Kamala doesn't cut it.
What's more, Feinstein is
a 'get off my lawn, whippersnappers' non-ideological sort of small-c
conservative, or, as Fox News put it, she pulls rank. Remember this?
Democratic Sen. Dianne
Feinstein pulled rank Friday when a group of kids tried to school her on
climate change.
After the group sought
her support for the Green New Deal, the 85-year-old senior
senator from California let them know she wasn't about to be bossed around by a
bunch of youngsters.
BLOG: THE OLD WHORE FEINSTEIN MADE A VAST FORTUNE SERVING CRIMINAL OPERATIONS LIKE PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS WELLS FARGO AND BANK OF AMERICA AND THE FREAKING PARASITE TRIAL LAWYERS!
“You come in here, and
you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don’t respond to that,” Feinstein
continued. “I’ve gotten elected, I just ran. I was elected by almost a
million-vote plurality. And I know what I’m doing. So you know, maybe people
should listen a little bit.
So just the fundraiser in
Harris's home state of California was a shiv in the side to Kamala.
Why is that?
Well, for one thing, the
Democratic political set widely believes that to win the presidency, one must
win California. Harris is from California, so that stacks things in her
favor.
Now Feinstein is
marshalling money from California Biden's way? So that they give their money to
him and feel 'donor fatigue' when Kamala comes calling?
The matter is compounded
by the fact that the California Democratic campaign fatcats weren't impressed
with Harris's performance in the third debate, as this CNBC report here indicates. Feinstein
knows those people and may very well be egging them toward Biden, or at least
piling on.
Here's another thing:
Money from fatcats over
little-people donations is Kamala's vulnerable spot. The queen of fake Twitter followers is also
highly reliant on big dollar donors over the little
guys, even as the New York Times tries to claim she's changing
that. Well, maybe she is, but if she is, it would be in the infant stage and in
any case, they're taking her word for it. More likely, she still relies on the
big boys, because that's what she knows.
Which would mean that
Feinstein's bid to separate Harris from that cash lifeline is like that of
General Grant at Vicksburg, targeting Confederate supply lines. The California
dinosaur strategizes.
The Feinstein fundraiser,
which will channel and suction big money toward Biden, can't help but come
at a cost to Harris. And Feinstein, right in the middle of the Pacific Heights
crowd, is lobbing her cannon ball where the funds are richest and Kamala's ties
are tightest.
It almost looks like a
concerted chess move to checkmate the upstart. And given the evidence of
Feinstein's antipathy toward Harris, one can't help but think it's all
intentional.
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