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2021-06-20 Government Corruption
Obama's ethics chief says Biden is sending a 'f*** you' to integrity standards
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A former ethics chief in the B.O. regime has accused President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
of thumbing his nose at government ethics with the prevalence of family ties among his administration's hires.

'I'm sorry, I know some folks don't like hearing any criticism of him. But this royally sucks. I'm disgusted,' tweeted Walter Shaub, who led the Office of Government Ethics from 2013 to 2017.

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'A lot of us worked hard to tee him up to restore ethics to government and believed the promises. This is a a real 'f*** you' to us—and government ethics,' he added.

Shaub was responding from a new report in the Washington Post, which revealed that press secretary Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama...
, White House counselor Steve Ricchetti, deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed and presidential personnel office director Cathy Russell each have at least one direct family member working for the Biden administration
...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know...
The prevalence of family ties in the new administration is infuriating to some Democrats, who had hoped that Biden would abandon the habits of Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
, who notoriously hired his daughter and son-in-law as top advisors.

'While it may not be as bad as appointing your son or daughter to a top government post as Trump did with Jared and Ivanka, it is still bad,' Shaub told the Post. 'Not as bad as Trump' cannot be the new standard.'

The scrutiny on hiring practices was triggered in part by the Treasury Department's announcement on Monday that it was hiring J.J. Ricchetti, son of Biden counselor Steve Ricchetti, leading to accusations of nepotism.

J.J. Ricchetti, a recent college graduate with no other experience listed on his department bio, will be a special assistant to the Treasury's office of legislative affairs.

A White House official said that the administration had prioritized hiring volunteers from the campaign, such as J.J.

Russell, the director of presidential personnel in the White House, has a daughter, Sarah Donilon, who graduated college in 2019 and works in the White House National Security Council.

Reed, a deputy White House chief of staff and longtime Biden confidant, has a daughter, Julia Reed, who graduated college in 2015 and works as Biden's day scheduler.

'In a country that had just come through a pandemic, how can these children of political appointees be the only people who are qualified for employment?' Shaub asked the Post.

The family ties also extend to the siblings and spouses of top political appointees.

Jen Psaki's sister Stephanie Psaki was appointed a senior adviser at the Health and Human Services Department in March, and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain's wife, Monica Medina, was nominated for assistant secretary of state focused on oceans and the environment.

However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
both have extensive experience in their fields.

'When little problems like this, which are so damn easy to avoid, crop up, it's a sign of much bigger rot. Because if you can't even do the easy things, you sure as hell can't do the hard things,' tweeted Shaub.

The White House insists that everyone the administration has hired meets the qualifications for their roles, and that no undue influence was exerted by family members in the hiring process.
Posted by Fred 2021-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ]  Top

#1 
I don't believe a word of this B.S., the Dems write this shit and get some past has been to mouth it, so they can be on record as saying "well, we tried to tell the Leader of our Party he was on the wrong political track', and all the while they stoke the fires in another part of the country.
In my nearly 50 years of operating with both parties, I see the insincerity...
Posted by Slolet Sproing7075 2021-06-20 01:25||   2021-06-20 01:25|| Front Page Top

#2 
The Dems from 2008 on have been the most corrupt in American History, frankly, in comparison they make the Nixon Administration look like "Choir Boys".

Posted by Slolet Sproing7075  2021-06-20 01:32||   2021-06-20 01:32|| Front Page Top

#3 It's an aristocracy.
Posted by Knuckles Slererong5344 2021-06-20 23:22||   2021-06-20 23:22|| Front Page Top

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