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Glad to have confirmation of the nothingburger, I guess.
Yeah it's not like he gave his kids jobs in his cabinet. That would be outrageous!
For accuracy, Trump never appointed his kids to cabinet positions. He just hired them on as senior advisors so that the US Government could pay each of them exorbitant amounts of money.
And steal medical supplies
"FEMA then seized 50,000 N95 respirators we had ordered without giving us an explanation or telling us where those respirators were going."
"In Florida, a large medical system saw an order for thermometers taken away. And officials at a system in Massachusetts were unable to determine where its order of masks went."
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/3/21206170/us-emergency-stockpile-jared-kushner-almost-empty-coronavirus-medical-supplies-ventilators
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/05/16/trump-team-seized-my-masks-for-coronavirus-health-workers-column/5191035002/
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-07/hospitals-washington-seize-coronavirus-supplies
Many of these supplies ended up being auctioned overseas, which caused a major problem in the US. I can't find the articles on it, but Kushner pocketed millions of dollars from the sales of seized medical supplies during the pandemic.
Trump did worse, and did it more blatantly, but this is bad, too.
Yeah. I think this was fairly obvious all along.
It looks like a conscious effort to imply favoritism without being stupid enough to say it out loud. It's not normal to invite your dad to dinner with your business associates, especially when your dad is VP. It's not normal to loop your dad in on a bunch of business calls, especially when your dad is VP.
Is anyone seriously suggesting Hunter Biden got on the board of a Ukranian energy company on his own merits? There's one reason you have that guy in a plush job.