Lol. He didn’t specify which president. Remember how Jared and Ivanka failed their background checks and had to “amend” their financial disclosures every time new evidence came into light?
Yep, that’s what I was thinking. Hunter’s bs is already out in the open, but a huge loan from the Saudi’s should be investigated for a son-in-law that worked in the white house.
That’s my biggest peeve about this whole Hunter debate…
Like not one GOP member said shit about Jared taking billions from the Saudis while being a government employee in office! Hunter was never even a Government employee…
this hunter biden shit is small potatoes. should he be subject to exactly the same legal standards and processes that any old fuckstick would have to endure? absolutely. should the prez be investigated if there’s any connection? sure. but, come on. don’t expect me to fall for this horseshit. that brandon guy is old as fuck but he’s doing a solid job and there’s no fucking chance i’m voting for a republican traitor.
Agreed. Dude should be treated the same as anyone else.
I’m pretty hard against applying disclosure laws and shit to family members merely for being related. You don’t get to choose your mom and dad. It seems unreasonable to force someone to follow standards of government office because they were born.
I dont see how this helps at all. They can release whatever financial info they want, and even if it is super clean, the right’s response will simply be “they lied on those documents.”
Hell, it didnt bother anyone voting for him that Trump never released his tax returns ahead of the election. If he is the nominee again he won’t release his newer tax returns. So at best this becomes a gesture that isnt going to sway a single vote and will only serve to have people nitpick and create more conspiracy theories.
Hunter and his foibles will be the political punching of record for the duration.
He should release a beer like Billy Carter.
This is a really dubious proposal. Congress can not enact a code of conduct on specific private citizens due to a family member’s position/job.
What’s going to happen if they don’t follow it though? “Sorry, I’ve removed you as my child, because you’re a dick”
Sounds like a case for those post birth abortions Florida man is talking about.
Would a serial killer be a post birth abortionist?
What’s hard about actual behavioral rules is that it’s not like the kids did anything to get in the position of “child of a president” and with the age of current presidents…Don Jr is 44, Beau would have been 54. They are full grown adults with careers. Imagine one of them was working their way up the ranks of the UN, or maybe they could even be a congressman, and then their parent becomes president and what, they have to quit? What if they refuse, who is punished? What if it’s something like the Trump org where it’s a family-owned institution, and the kids are taking control so that the president doesn’t control it while in office, do they have to find like a weird cousin?
And then, if you are making someone quit because their parent is president…you definitely have to give them a job in the White House, right? You can’t just force them to cook burgers for 4-8 years, and getting them a job on a board or whatever is going to be controversial too. Giving a nepotism job is bad, but you’re also forcing them to quit their non-nepotism job so I’m not sure what you’re supposed to do.
So anyway, that’s why just disclosures is probably the best option. Though it does need to be a legal requirement and not just a norm, because otherwise the people who need to be forced to disclose the most will just refuse to do it.
