and welcome back to the uh welcome to
the second hour of our program forget
Hunter Biden where are the
investigations into Ivanka and Jared
profiting from their time in the White
House asks my SiriusXM colleague Dean
obidala uh he's the host of the dean
obidala program or show here uh right
here on SiriusXM channel 127's SiriusXM
progress Channel
um he also has a great newsletter you
can find it at
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report uh Dean welcome back to the
program so why haven't the doj
investigated Ivanka and Jared why should
we care
we should care first of all Tom thanks
for having me on and thanks for being on
my show last night in our home and Home
Series that we keep doing look everyone
should be asking questions about Ivanka
Trump I wrote articles when she was in
the White House there working for her
her dad because crew which is a
not-for-profit nonpartisan ethics
Watchdog was filing complaints begging
doj to investigate what was going on
because there's Donald Trump having the
president of China at Mar-A-Lago
entertaining him and literally that same
day Ivanka Trump's company gets three
trademarks from China this happens over
and over and over and the reason I write
about it now is because the
investigation to Hunter Biden by James
comb or the house oversight committee
chair is predicated on the idea that
these people who worked had proximity to
the president were profiting off their
connections and they're talking about
Vice President Dan Biden and his son
Hunter Biden I go well if you're looking
for people cashing in on their ties to
the president Bingo we get Hunter bot we
have Jerry Kushner and we have Ivanka
Ivanka happen in the White House and
Jared was outside
it's laughable it's just corruption
right in front of us and nothing's been
done to either there's no real
investigation right and then they they
uh got two billion dollars for their
efforts apparently and now uh daddy is
building a massive hotel in Oman that
he's probably going to make a billion
bucks off of uh and not to mention the
live golf tour which I think is just
another you know a brand new way of
laundering money to Donald Trump but
um so are there any laws against this
Dean you're an attorney
ah you know Tom are there laws yes there
are laws are they going to ever be
enforced no because the world we live in
sadly enough were you know this doj is
not going to get involved in looking
back at potential ethics violations or
conflicts of interest violations that I
wrote about in my article today for
example the allegation by crew the
not-for-profit ethics group that in 2018
she violated 18 U.S code section 208 for
working on a project opportunity zones
that her husband Jared owned property
and then he was going to make money from
the real estate end of it and there was
no investigation they referred to doj
was under bars control then of course
nothing happened well you pointed out to
Jared Kushner in Saudi Arabia even Chris
Christie two weeks ago Kiko was campaign
in New Hampshire that the grift of Jared
and Ivanka in a word he called it
breathtaking he goes do you think Jared
Kushner got two billion dollars because
he's a good investor no and what
happened there Jared Kushner was the
number one defender of MBS the Crown
Prince of Saudi Arabia and Saudi in his
time in the white house it was all
documented during the time in the White
House by the New York Times he defended
NBS against the Steve conclusions by our
intelligence that MBS was the one that
ordered the killing of Jamal khashoggi
and he was the biggest Defender and what
happens six months after Jerry Kushner
leaves the White House he gets two
billion dollars from Saudi from their
Sovereign wealth on 2 billion it was a
newly formed Equity Fund and even mbs's
own financial advisors told him don't do
this deal it's a brand new company we
don't know anything about it it's not a
good idea MBS overruled his own
financial advisors to give Jared Kushner
two billion dollars it was clearly quid
quote quote and even that time house
Democrats control the oversight
committee and Carolyn Maloney began an
investigation last June which of course
died when Republicans took control of
the house so that's where we are we have
rapid grift and Corruption right in
front of our eyes and nothing's being
done why do you think it is that
Democrats in the United States Senate
have I mean they you know we control one
of the two legislative bodies of
Congress the the Senate uh the Senate
committees have subpoena power Chuck
Schumer could create a special committee
to look into graft and Corruption by you
know in the Trump Administration uh or
it could be done by you know the
Judiciary Committee or or there's
several committees actually this you
know under whose purview this could
easily fall why do you think it is that
Democrats just you know never try to
hold never go out of their way to hold
Republicans accountable
and and Republicans are like
hysterically manufacturing uh I mean you
know Jim Jordan now the Judiciary
Committee he's literally issuing
subpoenas to researchers on
misinformation and and Republican lies
and and and threatening them with jail
if they don't respond fast enough
well look Democrats during the time
Trump was in the White House I had
members of Congress on my show like you
do all the time and I asked them about
the whole thing with Ivanka Trump then I
go why don't you investigate this you
have you know at the time they had the
oversight committee and they there was a
lot of reasons why and they didn't want
to seem my sense was and they didn't say
this is verbatim my sense was they
didn't want to seem Petty they want to
be like okay you bring up Hunter Biden
so we're going to investigate Ivanka
Trump that was my sense I will say again
Carol Maloney who was then chair of the
oversight Committee in 2022 did begin at
least sending a letter to Jared Kushner
and begin arguably opening an
investigation which he said the
appearance of a quid pro quo for your
foreign policy work during the Trump
Administration to Jared Kushner but then
they were able to delay it nothing
happens why don't some Democrats I think
the Senate I think members of the Senate
think they're above this stuff and they
view this as the house squabbles in
reality you're protecting our own
institutions no one should be able to
profit of being in the White House they
worked there Hunter Biden had no
connection never worked in the white
house or President Biden Jared and
Ivanka worked there they had their own
portfolios of power they ran around the
world making deals under the name of the
United States of America and in return
she got trademark deals while President
Trump was negotiating trade deals with
Japan and China they're giving his
daughter trademarks literally in the
exact same window that's what triggered
all these ethics complaints and then
with Jared it's clearly quid pro quo the
guy doesn't have a good track record
he's not a good investor he's a smaller
two billion dollars I mean that's that's
what he did in his life
and I don't may I don't bring it up
myself to do oh they're bringing up
Hunter Biden I do because the oversight
committee is saying James Comer saying
we have to investigate Hunter Biden
because look he profited off his dad
being vice president well you've got
Jared profiting from dealing with our
foreign policy and selling this out
the defense of AWS was off the charts
there's no reason for that and Ivanka
she may not have asked for the benefits
but her company got these trademarks and
they're worth money and from China and
Japan not just China 's China Pan as
well it's ridiculous we we have to
either we either have a system of
justice that says no one's above it and
we're going to go after even the kids
we're going to cross that red line or
it's a free-for-all let's be a third
world country so I'm disappointed when
Democrats don't step up their game on
these issues me too whatever happened to
the Hatch Act I mean you had Ivanka
pitching uh beans in the White House you
had Kelly kellyanne Conway uh violating
the Hatch Act you had you had Donald
Trump now this was during the pandemic I
suppose you know you could cut him some
slack on that but holding Republican
events at the White House those are all
violations clear violations of a very
explicit law the Hatch Act which
prohibits uh any any politician from
using government property for campaign
purposes or for or to make money
and again crew filed to complaint
against Ivanka when she was in the white
house for violating the hatchet it's a
toothless act we know that I mean they
just talked about it with Kareem jump
here the White House Press Secretary and
sometimes it's inadvertent but what team
Trump the grifters were doing was
literally like using our property our
tax dollars to make themselves more
money now and you mentioned the deal
that Trump just announced we just
learned from The New York Times today in
Oman o-m-a-n not Amon Jordan a country
of Oman which I've been to it's
beautiful a lot of beautiful beaches I
can see where Trump's going to make tons
of money it's a very welcoming Country
and this is all for sale this is unreal
and when Republicans are asked about
Jared and Ivanka they just they don't
they don't need to defend it because
they'll just switch gears quickly and
the media doesn't follow up but you're
right it is Democrats in the Senate have
control of the ones who should they
don't make this a priority they're
trying to hold Justice Thomas And
Justice Alito to some standards of
ethics and they're on the court right
now I mean another day another Supreme
Court ethics violation going on as we
learned today from propublica with
Justice Alito yeah yeah whatever time we
just had Greg Palestine about that it's
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