On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 20:25:55 -0700, Siri Cruise says...
> > LEXINGTON, Va. ? A small town in Virginia is trying to recover
> > its image after The Red Hen restaurant famously refused to serve
> > President Donald Trump's spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
>
> Perhaps they are being avoided because only their Red Hen stood up to a corrupt
> White House.
>
WHICH White House?
Oh, the one that Obama built... riiiiiight.
Corruption is NOT a "Trump" thing.
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Obama Scandal: Former President Obama and his political supporters have
repeatedly stated that his administration was scandal-free,...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
... unlike administrations before and after. "We're probably the first
administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the
White House," Obama himself said. A new book puts the lie to that
statement.
"IN" the White House? Maybe. Outside of the White House? Most definitely.
Never mind that the left-leaning big media basically ignored major
scandals during the Obama years, ranging from the IRS targeting scandal
and the VA's deadly waiting lists for veterans to Hillary Clinton's
illegal use of an unsecured, hackable home-brew server for her official
duties as secretary of state and the Fast and Furious gun-walking program.
These and others were epic scandals that the media simply ignored or
downplayed.
The Obama administration and its cronies were up to their necks in
questionable business deals and may even have intentionally distorted
public policy to accommodate their own profit-making.
"Obama and his administration would deem industries either destructive to
the environment or exploitative for the financial and professional gain of
his friends, including industries such as coal mining, offshore drilling,
cash advance companies, and for-profit colleges."
Obama buddies Marty Nesbitt and Harreld Kirkpatrick III formed a private
equity investment firm called Vistria, right around the time Obama was re-
elected in 2012.
Nothing wrong with that, except, as Schweizer notes in his book, "A
curious pattern began to emerge. Obama and his administration would attack
industries with government power, which led to substantially lower
valuations for these companies. Nesbitt and Vistria, or others close to
Obama, could then acquire those assets for pennies on the dollar."
Obama buddies Marty Nesbitt and Harreld Kirkpatrick III formed a private
equity investment firm called Vistria, right around the time Obama was re-
elected in 2012.
Nothing wrong with that, except, as Schweizer notes in his book, "A
curious pattern began to emerge. Obama and his administration would attack
industries with government power, which led to substantially lower
valuations for these companies. Nesbitt and Vistria, or others close to
Obama, could then acquire those assets for pennies on the dollar."
Another example, Schweizer cites the case of for-profit higher education
schools like University of Phoenix, ITT Technical Institute, and DeVry
University. In 2013, Obama blamed the schools for taking advantage of
students by saddling them with massive amounts of student debt, ruining
their credit and making a profit on it. He ordered the Federal Trade
Commission to go after them.
In the case of the University of Phoenix, its parent Apollo Education
Group was suspended after a Federal Trade Commission investigation in
2015. The following year, three companies, including Vistria, swooped in
to buy what remained of Apollo at a price 90% below its share price before
the investigation.
As Vistria's education investment portfolio bulged, a number of Obama
Education Department officials, including Secretary of Education Arne
Duncan, ended up taking high-level jobs with Vistria.
That's just one example. There are others.
Both Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry were
deeply involved in trade and security talks with China even as that
country began its aggressive campaign to expand its military and physical
presence in the South China Sea. Contrary to standard diplomatic practice,
however, both played "good cop," not seriously confronting China on its
misbehavior.
Remember, Biden and Kerry were close friends from their years spent
together in the Senate. So there was little surprise when Biden's son,
Hunter, and Kerry's stepson, Christopher Heinz, one of the heirs to the
Heinz ketchup fortune, went into business together in 2009.
They created a number of equity and real estate investment firms allied to
Rosemont Capital, "the alternative investment fund of the Heinz Family
Office."
So far so good. Except, "Over the next seven years, as both Joe Biden and
John Kerry negotiated sensitive and high-stakes deals with foreign
governments, Rosemont entities secured a series of exclusive deals with
those same foreign governments."
In December of 2013, for instance, Biden traveled to China for talks. He
brought Hunter Biden along. While there, the senior Biden soft-pedaled
China's clear aggression, and played up the bilateral trade partnership.
Ten days after the trip concluded, China's central bank, the Bank of
China, set up a $1 billion investment joint venture called Bohai Harvest
RST. For the record, the "RS" referred to Biden's son's firm, Rosemont
Seneca.
That's questionable enough.
But months later, in July 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to
China, also for talks. Kerry talked little of China's clear aggression,
but did conspicuously note that "China and the United States represent the
greatest economic alliance trading partnership in the history of
humankind."
He should know. In the ensuing months, Chinese government-linked firms
took major stakes in several of the firms owned or controlled by Hunter
Biden and Chris Heinz, and provided them with massive funding totaling
billions of dollars. Nor is this the only scandal involving John Kerry.
And this just scratches the surface. The book is a catalog, a virtual
roadmap, to the way corrupt business gets done in Washington - and why
Americans are smart to question why their representative go to Washington
as paupers, and return as millionaires.
We can only hope that as Biden or Kerry gears up for a challenge to Trump
in the 2020 presidential contest, they will receive the same relentless
scrutiny that a Republican with the same record of venality would get. But
we won't hold our breath.
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STILL can't understand why liberal Democrats are so in love with Mexicans.
Mexicans are against abortion, contraception, pre-marital sex, mainly
because they're mostly Catholic... oh, and they HATE you. Am I leaving
anything else out that you just LOVE about them?
Riiiiight... they're potential Democrap voters.
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