<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-klain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Klain</a> had a small boulder to cry on as he delivered a farewell address marking his exit as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> chief of staff.
At an event Wednesday in the East Room, Klain choked up as he talked about the &#8220;best job&#8221; he ever had, standing next to his boss President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>. Klain got emotional throughout his remarks, and toward the end, held up a small souvenir rock in his hand and tearfully explained its significance to him.
&#8220;This plain and simple rock was given to me a year ago on one of our darker days — by Louisa Terrell,&#8221;  Klain said, referring to the <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2023/02/01/bidens-art-of-the-deal-00080624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">head of White House legislative affairs</a>.
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Ron Klain breaks down sobbing as he recalls being given a rock by a White House staffer:
“It’s always symbolized to me… that this team has been rock solid.” <a href="https://t.co/Dfi84a6O1g">pic.twitter.com/Dfi84a6O1g</a>
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&#8220;And it&#8217;s always symbolized to me the fact that this team has been rock solid in their support of our agenda and the president,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We&#8217;ve never wavered. We&#8217;ve been as solid as a rock. And so I ask you today to continue to play that role. I ask each and every one of you to continue your jobs as the rock of this White House, this administration, and this presidency. That&#8217;s our mission.&#8221;
Klain then introduced his successor as chief of staff, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-eyes-wealthy-covid-czar-to-take-over-as-chief-of-staff-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeff Zients</a>, before giving Biden a hug while those in attendance applauded.
Earlier in the event, the president introduced Klain by sharing how they have been working together for decades, stretching back to when Biden was a senator.
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Happening Now: President Biden hosts an official transition event to thank Chief of Staff Ron Klain for his tireless work and officially welcome Jeff Zients back to the White House in this role. <a href="https://t.co/NJeCzPJ5T8">https://t.co/NJeCzPJ5T8</a>
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&#8220;I knew the moment he started, he was a once-in-a-generation talent. And that&#8217;s not hyperbole,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a fiercely brilliant intellect. And again, those of you who work with him know it to be true. And just as important, he has a heart as big as his head,&#8221; he added, prompting a round of laughter.
During his remarks, Klain expressed effusive praise for Biden and touted a number of accomplishments. &#8220;I learned everything I know about how to be a good father from Joe Biden,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He&#8217;s the best father I know and the best role model I know.&#8221;

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President Joe Biden will appoint a former COVID czar to be his next chief of staff, according to a report Sunday.
Sources <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-klain-expected-to-step-down-as-bidens-chief-of-staff-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Washington Post</a> that Jeff Zients would be named the successor to Ron Klain, who is expected to step down as chief of staff in the coming weeks. A formal announcement has yet to be made as of press time.
Zients served as COVID response coordinator for the first year-plus of Biden&#8217;s presidency, leading the charge in <a href="https://www.virginiamercury.com/2022/02/03/white-house-plans-speedy-delivery-to-states-of-covid-vaccine-for-littlest-kids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promoting vaccinations</a>. In the spring of 2022, when Biden announced Ashish Jha would be taking over the role, the president praised Zients as <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/17/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-the-white-house-covid-19-response-coordinator/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;a man of service and an expert manager.&#8221;</a>
So far, the White House remains tightlipped about a chief of staff overhaul. Still, senior administration officials <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/us/politics/ron-klain-resigning.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The New York Times</a> that Klain has been telling colleagues privately he planned to step down ever since the midterm elections.
Insiders told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/22/jeff-zients-biden-chief-of-staff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> that Zients returned to the White House in the fall to help Klain with staff turnover after the 2022 elections. Klain has been assigning Zients various projects, which some insiders have viewed as Klain preparing Zients for the chief of staff position, the report added.
Zients established himself as a wealthy investor who took on various senior roles in the Obama administration and served on Facebook&#8217;s board of directors.  <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-wealthiest-cabinet-officials-zients-lander-rice-top-the-list-11616500809" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Wall Street Journal analysis</a> in March 2021 showed Zients listed assets worth at least $89.3 million, placing him among the richest of Biden&#8217;s top aides.
If he does become chief of staff, Zients will take on the top job as Biden faces a growing controversy over his handling of classified documents.
The White House has repeatedly insisted the president and his attorneys are fully cooperating with the National Archives and Justice Department as an investigation turns up more classified documents at Biden&#8217;s Wilmington, Delaware, residence and a think tank office <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fbi-finds-six-more-documents-marked-classified-in-search-of-bidens-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dating back as far back as his time in the Senate</a>.

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White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is reportedly planning to step down from his position in the coming weeks, a move that would have a significant impact on the administration.
Klain has been privately telling some over the last couple of months that he has had enough of the intense work that is required in the position and that he&#8217;s ready for something else, according to The New York Times.
The Times&#8217; sources would not disclose whether a replacement has already been picked or when a possible announcement may happen, the report said.
The report noted that the move comes as the 80-year-old president is expected to announce in the coming months that he will run for a second term in office.
The report said that some of the top choices to replace Klain included Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh; former Gov. Jack A. Markell of Delaware, now serving as ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; Steven J. Ricchetti, the counselor to the president; Jeffrey D. Zients, the administration’s former coronavirus response coordinator; Susan Rice, the White House domestic policy adviser; and Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture.
The report of Klain&#8217;s departure comes as the administration gears up to face mounting legal and political scrutiny over the next two years after Republicans won control of the House of Representatives and Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate Biden over classified documents that were found in one of his private offices and in his home.
Classified documents connected with Biden were first found in his private office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C., on November 2, less than a week before the 2022 midterm elections. Since then, Biden’s attorneys have located more classified documents at Biden’s home in Wilmington on three separate occasions: an unspecified number found in the garage on December 20, one document found in Biden’s study on January 11, and five more found in the study on January 12.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/merrick-garland-appoints-special-counsel-to-investigate-biden-classified-document-scandal">appointed</a> former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur — who served during the Trump administration — to serve as special counsel in the investigation after the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch, who was assigned to do an initial review of the case, recommended to Garland that a special counsel be appointed.
The Department of Justice reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-declined-to-monitor-biden-attorneys-search-for-classified-docs-at-presidents-home-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declined</a> to assign FBI agents to monitor the search of Biden’s home under a mutual agreement reached with Biden’s personal attorneys. Department officials reportedly believed that FBI supervision would overly complicate the federal investigation into classified documents related to Biden, and that the supervision was unnecessary with Biden’s cooperation.
Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-issues-statement-over-classified-document-scandal">responded</a> to the scandal by saying that he has &#8220;no regrets&#8221; over his actions and that getting questions about the investigation “quite frankly bugs” him.
“We’re fully cooperating, looking forward to getting this resolved quickly,” Biden claimed. “I think you’re gonna find there’s nothing there. I have no regrets. I’m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do — that’s exactly what we’re doing. There’s no there, there.”
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.

Ron Klain Expected To Step Down As Biden’s Chief Of Staff: Report

One of the worst years for <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/stock-market" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stocks</a> in recent decades came after President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> made a series of rosy predictions about their performance.
The S&amp;P 500 index has fallen nearly 20% since the beginning of the year, rivaling the 37% decline witnessed in 2008 amid the collapse of the American banking system, as well as the 12% and 22% declines witnessed in 2001 and 2002 amid the dot-com bubble. Persistent inflation, supply chain bottlenecks, and geopolitical pressures rendered 2022 the seventh worst year for stocks since the Great Depression began in 1929. To make matters worse, 2022 is one of the few years on record in which both the stock market and the bond market were negative.
Administration staffers and the commander-in-chief himself nevertheless lauded the stock market’s performance in the weeks before its substantial decline. During <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/01/07/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-december-2021-jobs-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> about unemployment delivered in the first days of January 2022, Biden noted that the stock market was approximately 20% “higher than it was when my predecessor was there.”
“It has hit record after record after record on my watch, while making things more equitable for working-class people. At the same time, we’ve created jobs, reduced unemployment, raised wages,” Biden said. However, rising price levels would continue to outpace nominal wage increases in the following months, leading to a 1.9% year-over-year decline in earnings by November 2022, according to <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
During <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/09/08/remarks-by-president-biden-in-honor-of-labor-unions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comments</a> about labor unions delivered in September 2021, the commander-in-chief noted that “the stock market has gone up exponentially” since he ascended to the Oval Office. “You haven’t heard me say a word about it. I’m glad it’s gone up.”
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain <a href="https://twitter.com/WHCOS/status/1455637472508104708" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scoffed</a> at a prediction from the “former guy,” an apparent reference to former President Donald Trump, that the stock market would plummet under Biden, contending in November 2021 that Biden “cares about main street, not Wall Street.”
The lackluster stock market, however, has weighed heavily upon households. Americans saving for retirement saw their IRA balances fall year-over-year by an average of 25% in the third quarter, while 401(k) balances dropped 23%, according to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/401-pain-average-retirement-savings-continue-to-plummet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> from Fidelity Investments. The proportion of individuals with negative sentiment regarding their finances now surpasses the proportion of individuals with positive feelings, marking a significant reversal since last year.
The average 401(k) account value <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-not-just-yours-study-shows-how-much-average-401k-is-down-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped</a> from $135,000 on the first day of the year to roughly $101,000 by the middle of October, according to a <a href="https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CTUP_BidenEconomicPoliciesAnd401k.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, offering a dismal view of the past several months under the Biden administration even as stocks have somewhat rebounded in recent weeks.
“This has inflicted considerable financial losses for senior citizens or those in the baby-boom generation who are nearing retirement,” concluded Stephen Moore and E.J. Antoni, the conservative-leaning economists who drafted the study. “For a married couple where each person has the average balance in their retirement account, their $270,000 in savings has declined about $80,000, which can be nearly the equivalent of a down payment on a retirement home. In this way, Biden’s economic policies have not only negatively affected the real take home pay of middle-class American workers but have also effectively stolen tens of thousands of dollars of lifetime savings.”

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Stocks Had Their Worst Year Since 2008 After Biden Boasted About Their Performance

Stocks Had Their Worst Year Since 2008

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White House Chief of Staff <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ron-klain-says-that-one-good-metric-means-bidens-horrible-numbers-arent-horrible/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Klain</a> claimed during a recent television appearance that the midterm elections had been not just good, but record-breaking for President Joe Biden — but former White House reporter Jim Stinson begged to differ.
Klain, speaking with MSNBC&#8217;s <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/msnbcs-odonnell-gives-brutally-honest-apology-his-james-barrett/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell</a>, falsely claimed that Biden was the first president since John F. Kennedy to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-republicans-fail-to-take-back-the-senate-from-democrats-projection/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hold Senate seats</a> and &#8220;potentially go up one senate seat&#8221; in a midterm election.
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White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain claims that &quot;no president since JFK has held senate seats and potentially go up one senate seat&quot; in a midterm.
In 2018, Republicans increased their senate majority by 2 seats under President Trump. <a href="https://t.co/rjadi7OcBt">pic.twitter.com/rjadi7OcBt</a>
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While Stinson agreed that Kennedy&#8217;s midterms were an unqualified success, he noted that several other presidents had seen good midterm results since — and better results than Biden could see even if Democrats are successful in the upcoming Georgia run-off between incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and challenger Herschel Walker.
&#8220;THREAD. Ron Klain @WHCOS tells some remarkable lies. On @Lawrence (a gullible guy) Monday night, Klain said &#8220;no president &#8230; since John F. Kennedy &#8230; (has held on to) Senate seats and potentially even (went) up one Senate seat.&#8221; This is untrue; @JonKarl also said this,&#8221; he began.
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The best MIDTERM performance on the Senate side by a party holding the White House since 1960 was:
1) 1962. Kennedy. Dems pick up 4 seats despite midterm. 2) 2002. Bush. Despite recession, GOP picks up 2 seats and control of Senate.
So .. 2022 yet, <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a>? No. (2)
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&#8220;The best MIDTERM performance on the Senate side by a party holding the White House since 1960 was: 1) 1962. Kennedy. Dems pick up 4 seats despite midterm. 2) 2002. Bush. Despite recession, GOP picks up 2 seats and control of Senate. So .. 2022 yet, @MSNBC? No,&#8221; he continued.
Stinson went on to note that the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nate-silvers-fivethirtyeight-bad-2018-could-joseph-curl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 midterms</a> under former President Donald Trump effectively tied with the 2002 George W. Bush pickups for the second best with two net gains, and that Democrats — even with a win in Georgia — could only potentially gain one.
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So two Republicans presidents since JFK (Bush 2 and Trump) have had better midterms than <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> could possibly have in the Senate elections. At best, Dems could pick up 1. But that&#39;s not even unusual since 1962. (4)
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&#8220;So two Republicans presidents since JFK (Bush 2 and Trump) have had better midterms than @JoeBiden could possibly have in the Senate elections. At best, Dems could pick up 1,&#8221; he said.
Stinson went on to detail several other midterms since Kennedy, noting that even former President <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-chris-matthews-says-nixon-had-shame-suggests-ashe-schow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richard Nixon</a> had seen a net gain of one in the senate in 1970.
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Then there&#39;s 1998. Biden and Dems in 2022 could tie 1998 depending on who wins Georgia. In &#39;98, the Republicans held the majority. A troubled Bill Clinton (D) held the White House.
Neither party won any new seats. Net gain: zero. It was seen as defeat for GOP. (6)
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If the Democrats lose in Georgia, Stinson added, the Biden administration could tie with the results handed to former President Bill Clinton in 1998. &#8220;In &#8217;98, the Republicans held the majority. A troubled Bill Clinton (D) held the White House. Neither party won any new seats. Net gain: zero. It was seen as defeat for GOP,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;There is just no way for Joe Biden, Ron Klain (who @Lawrence said was the most successful @WHCOS since JFK — lol) and the Dems to spin the Senate wins. They picked up one at best. Bush 2 and Trump did better,&#8221; he concluded.

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Ron Klain Claims Biden Won Big In Midterms – Former WH Reporter Decimates Him In Brutal Thread

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> Chief of Staff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-klain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Klain</a> insisted that the United States is not in a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/recession" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recession</a> as Democrats make their final pitch days before the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/2022-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">midterm</a> elections.
Despite an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/relying-on-credit-cards-to-pay-basic-bills-reading-between-the-lines-on-bidens-rosy-economic-outlook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increase</a> in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">economic</a> output during the third quarter, the United States previously met the rule-of-thumb definition of a recession, two consecutive quarters of negative growth, as the output contracted at a 1.6% annualized rate in the first quarter and a 0.6% pace in the second quarter. Klain, however, remarked during an <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/biden-issued-one-final-warning-on-democracy-amid-political-violence-wh-152412229506?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_mj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with MSNBC that the economy is witnessing a robust recovery under President Joe Biden.
“We are not in a recession. I want to be really, really clear on that,” Klain asserted. “The economy is growing, it is strong, it is creating jobs.”
Polls <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-midterm-poll-spells-bad-news-for-democrats-on-the-economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consistently reveal</a> that voters have their eyes on the economy and inflation more than any other issues, with Republicans leading Democrats by a double-digit margin concerning trust in handling the economy. Although members of the former party criticize the Biden administration and progressive lawmakers for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-economic-czar-claims-white-house-is-reducing-the-budget-deficit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deficit spending</a> even while restricting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-severely-cuts-back-on-oil-and-gas-leases" target="_blank" rel="noopener">energy production</a>, members of the latter party claim that their expenditures are meant to decrease the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-740-billion-inflation-reduction-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cost of living</a> for households.
Klain cited recent rebounds in the stock market, which has seen one of its worst years in history, as evidence that the administration’s economic policy has been effective. “Our mission here at the White House is to continue that kind of economic growth,” he said, naming inflation as “the problem we’re focused on.”
Voters nevertheless hold the commander-in-chief responsible for the lackluster economy. In a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-who-have-worse-finances-since-biden-was-elected-overwhelmingly-blame-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> from Bankrate, roughly 43% of respondents reported that their finances are worse than two years ago. Among those who reported worse finances, 69% placed “at least a moderate amount of blame” on Biden, while 71% placed blame on Democrats in Congress and a smaller but still salient 54% blamed Republicans in Congress. Although 93% of Republicans with lower financial prospects said Biden is to blame, a considerable 30% of Democrats agreed.
Administration officials have repeatedly seized on any glimmer of positive economic news as evidence that the economy as a whole is experiencing a normal recovery. After the release of the preliminary third quarter output forecast, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/economy-turns-positive-in-third-quarter-biden-takes-credit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that “doomsayers” had been “rooting for a downturn” while falsely arguing that the nation was in a recession.
“Now, we need to make more progress on our top economic challenge: bringing down high prices for American families,” he remarked. “Congressional Republicans have a very different agenda — one that would drive up inflation and add to the deficit by cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans and large corporations. It would raise the cost of prescription drugs, health care, and energy for American families. That failed economic vision is not the way to give families more breathing room and grow our economy so working families can get ahead.”
Elevated price levels recently caused the Federal Reserve to increase <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-reserve-hikes-interest-rates-three-quarters-of-a-point" target="_blank" rel="noopener">target federal funds</a> rates by three-quarters of a percentage point. Monetary policymakers have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-federal-reserve-official-reveals-consequence-of-higher-interest-rates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly warned</a> markets that economic growth will be “essentially flat” in the second half of the year following the dismal first two quarters.

White House Chief Of Staff: ‘We Are Not In A Recession’

White House Chief Of Staff Claims United States Is 'Not In A Recession'

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White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain was informed by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) that he violated the Hatch Act over a May Twitter post.
The OSC noted the violation in a Wednesday <a href="https://aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/22.10.26-Klain-letter-AFL-Copy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Gene Hamilton, vice president and general counsel at the America First Legal Foundation, who filed the complaint.
“Although OSC has concluded that Mr. Klain violated the Hatch Act, as explained below, we have decided not to pursue disciplinary action and instead issued him a warning letter,” Ana Galindo-Marrone, chief of the Hatch Act Unit at the OSC, wrote.
Galindo-Marrone also confirmed Klain&#8217;s retweet and the identity of the account involved.
&#8220;OSC confirmed that Mr. Klain retweeted a May 22, 2022 message from Strike PAC (@StrikePAC) from his official Twitter account (@WHCOS). The tweet read, &#8216;Operation Fly Formula delivers 70,000 pounds of infant formula for American mothers and their infants. Thank you @POTUS.&#8217; The tweet also read, &#8216;Get your Democrats Deliver merch today!&#8217; and included a link to Strike PAC’s online store and an image of the group’s &#8216;Democrats Deliver&#8217; t-shirt,&#8221; she wrote.
Strike PAC is a partisan political group that supports the Democratic Party.
Galindo-Marrone noted that Klain removed the post following notification of the OSC&#8217;s complaint.
&#8220;Although OSC has concluded that Mr. Klain violated the Hatch Act, we understand that he promptly removed the retweet upon being notified of this complaint,&#8221; the letter read.
&#8220;Accordingly, we have decided not to pursue disciplinary action and will close this matter. Mr. Klain has been warned that if in the future he engages in activity prohibited by the Hatch Act while employed in a covered position, OSC would consider such activity to be a willful and knowing violation of the law that could result in disciplinary action,&#8221; the letter concluded.
“Using your White House Twitter account to advocate for a PAC is ILLEGAL,” Hamilton said in his <a href="https://aflegal.org/breaking-office-of-special-counsel-finds-that-biden-white-house-chief-of-staff-ron-klain-violated-the-hatch-act-based-on-afl-request-for-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> reacting to the OSC letter.
Klain&#8217;s retweet occurred in May. America First Legal sent its <a href="https://wordpress.aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Klain-OGE-Letter-Final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">request</a> for an ethics investigation of Klain on June 2.
&#8220;As OGE’s director, you have the authority to review potential ethics violations and notify the employee’s agency, in this case the White House, of any violations. Based on the evidence, an investigation is clearly called for here,&#8221; Reed Rubinstein, senior counselor for America First Legal, wrote at the time.
Klain is not the only Biden administration official to receive a warning regarding a Hatch Act violation. Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki also received a <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/HA-22-000004.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warning</a> for advocating the election of then-Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.

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White House Chief of Staff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-klain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron Klain</a>&#8216;s wife, Monica Medina, has been <a href="https://www.state.gov/monica-p-medina-named-special-envoy-for-biodiversity-and-water-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selected</a> as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s newly-created Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources.
To steal a tongue-in-cheek phrase from New England radio legend Howie Carr, Medina was &#8220;chosen after a nationwide search,&#8221; I&#8217;m sure. We actually don&#8217;t know because the State Department refused to say.
When asked point blank if there was a nationwide search process, a State Department spokesperson skirted the question and instead claimed this wasn&#8217;t a new position at all.
&#8220;The Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources is not a new position but rather a new designation by the Secretary of State of an existing <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00387.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00387.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1664569228411000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3AT3uQAjq9jNIBXY7oOlJH">Senate-confirmed appointee</a> to lead on these issues,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;Assistant Secretary Medina was designated for this role given the overlap with her work as head of the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.&#8221; 
As for what exactly she&#8217;ll do under this &#8220;new designation&#8221;? According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/29/first-us-appoints-diplomat-plants-animals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, she is now the first ever diplomat for plants and animals.
&#8220;As temperatures rise and habitats shrink, hundreds of thousands of plant and animal species around the world are at risk of vanishing,&#8221; The Post asserted. &#8220;For the first time, the United States is designating a special diplomat to advocate for global biodiversity amid what policymakers here and overseas increasingly recognize as an extinction crisis.&#8221;
Medina does have experience in this area, yet one minor detail was kept out of The Post&#8217;s original reporting. The paper whose tagline is &#8220;Democracy Dies In Darkness&#8221; at first kept the fact that Medina is Klain&#8217;s wife in the dark.
The favored paper of The Swamp neglected to report that the Biden administration tapped his right-hand man&#8217;s significant other so that she can gallivant around the world talking about the dwindling population of the Yangtze Finless Porpoise and the endangered Texas poppy mallow, or something. After <a href="https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1575545309723512834?s=20&amp;t=ZrNu3BZdlCE_G0dYl-vAyw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apparent</a> Twitter criticism, the outlet updated its story.
The State Department, the agency overseeing this office, provided more details about why this role was needed in the first place.
Before getting into the details of it, would you be shocked to learn that promoting equity and inclusion is a key part of her responsibilities? Of course not, but those two planks of the new American Imperialism are used as justification by the Biden administration for the necessity of the &#8220;designation.&#8221;
&#8220;Decades of evidence shows that water security is essential to global efforts to increase equity and economic growth, build inclusive and resilient societies, bolster health and food security, decrease the risk of conflict or instability, and tackle the climate crisis,&#8221; the federal agency <a href="https://www.state.gov/monica-p-medina-named-special-envoy-for-biodiversity-and-water-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release. &#8220;Meanwhile, environmental stressors, like the climate crisis, nature crime – including illegal logging, mining, land conversion, and wildlife trafficking – have deep and detrimental impacts on the biodiversity of our planet and the availability of clean and safe water for human use.&#8221;
&#8220;The two crises are inextricably linked, and the State Department and Special Envoy Medina are committed to addressing the crises holistically,&#8221; the agency added.
She will also be working closely with the United Nations. It is unclear if Medina will hold one of the worst offenders for all those problems — the Chinese Communist Party — accountable for such actions.
If the new gig is anything like Special Envoy For Climate John Kerry&#8217;s office, there will likely be much opacity in the months ahead as to what exactly Medina is doing.
Readers will remember that Kerry&#8217;s office was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whats-john-kerry-hiding-memo-shows-bidens-climate-office-is-keeping-elements-we-cant-put-on-paper-out-of-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked to hand over certain communications</a> by the Boston Herald, only to be told the requested materials wouldn&#8217;t be available until next year at the earliest. Of the communications released to the media so far, Americans have learned that Kerry&#8217;s office is keeping <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whats-john-kerry-hiding-memo-shows-bidens-climate-office-is-keeping-elements-we-cant-put-on-paper-out-of-emails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">certain bits of information out of emails</a>, presumably so that it cannot be handed over under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Maybe the State Department really had an extensive recruiting process. Or maybe, and more likely, Biden is repaying Klain for so many years of fealty and servitude.
This column has been updated to reflect the State Department&#8217;s response.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Ron Klain, Joe Biden, Monica Medina

For Real? Ron Klain’s Wife Picked As Biden’s New Diplomat For Plants And Animals

For Real? Ron Klain's Wife Picked As Biden's New Diplomat For Plants And Animals

John Kerry

Amid news of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) remaining unchanged between June and July, top <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration">White House</a> officials argued that the economy “had 0% inflation” while overlooking persistently high <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/inflation">price levels</a> — provoking criticism from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party">Republicans</a>.
According to the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm">Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>, year-over-year inflation reached 9.1% in June and 8.5% in July, with the slight moderation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-starts-victory-lap-amid-slightly-less-dismal-inflation-reading">driven</a> by month-to-month declines in energy expenses even as prices for food, new vehicles, medical care, and shelter continued to increase.
President Joe Biden — who <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL">began</a> his tenure when inflation was 1.4% — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-america-had-zero-percent-inflation-in-the-month-of-july">took a victory lap</a> in reaction to the most recent price level news. “Today we received news that our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July,” he told members of the press. “Here’s what that means — while the price of some things went up last month, the price of other things went down by the same amount. The result: zero inflation last month. People are still hurting, but zero inflation last month.”
As other White House officials — including Chief of Staff Ron Klain and Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — made similar arguments, Republicans noted the disconnect between members of the administration and members of the public.
“The Biden White House is living in a fairytale while Americans are living in a nightmare,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1557397357226065921">remarked</a>.
“Sure, they&#8217;re straight up lying. But this message to voters from Joe Biden is that inflation doesn&#8217;t exist&#8230; the economy is great&#8230; there is nothing to worry about,” Republican Party Deputy Communications Director Nathan Brand <a href="https://twitter.com/NathanBrandWA/status/1557412029064810496">added</a>. “Being that out of touch just proves they don&#8217;t care about families that are struggling.”
“Inflation is at a near 40 year high — even using the fake government numbers — and the leftwing media is gaslighting us over it because they&#8217;re hacks trying to protect Biden and the Dems,” Donald Trump Jr. <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1557356114425122817">commented</a>. “Enemy of the people.”
“Our economy is broken when 8.5% inflation is celebrated as &#8216;progress,&#8217;” former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href="https://twitter.com/mikepompeo/status/1557392891730956289">said</a>. “Grocery prices are up 13% and electricity is up 15%. More spending, more IRS and higher taxes wont [sic] make things better. Ending Dem control of Congress this November will.”
Last month, the Biden administration preemptively spun a record-high 9.1% year-over-year inflation reading by arguing that the report would be outdated. “We expect the headline number, which includes gas and food, to be highly elevated, mainly because gas prices were so elevated in June,” Jean-Pierre <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/07/12/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan/">told</a> reporters at the time. “The President’s number one economic priority is tackling inflation. And looking ahead, there are a number of reasons why we expect those high prices to ease over the coming months.”
The newest inflation report occurs as the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vp-harris-breaks-tie-senate-passes-democrats-inflation-reduction-act-climate-tax-and-spending-bill">endorses</a> the “Inflation Reduction Act” — a $740 billion package that includes $369 billion in climate provisions. Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaking ballot in a party-line Senate vote earlier this week.
“This bill tackles inflation by lowering the deficit and lowering costs for regular families,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/07/statement-by-president-biden-on-senate-passage-of-the-inflation-reduction-act/">said</a> upon the bill’s advancement to the House of Representatives. “It addresses the climate crisis and strengthens our energy security, creating jobs manufacturing solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles in America with American workers. &#8230; It pays for all this by establishing a minimum corporate tax so that our richest corporations start to pay their fair share.”

‘Living In A Fairytale’: Republicans Plaster White House For Saying Inflation Rose 0%

White House Takes Heat For Saying Inflation Rose 0%

Karine Jean-Pierre

President Joe Biden’s long-time advisor and White House communications director, Kate Bedingfield, is leaving the White House and joining the slew of communications officials parting ties with the administration ahead of the midterm elections.
Bedingfield’s tenure as a top aide to Biden dates back to her role as his communications director during Biden&#8217;s second term as vice president under Barack Obama. She was an instrumental player in his Presidential election, acting as deputy campaign manager throughout his 2020 bid.
&#8220;She has played a huge role in everything the President has achieved – from his second term as Vice President, through the campaign, and since coming to the White House,&#8221; Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain said in a statement.
Bedingfield began her role as White House communications director at the start of Biden’s presidency and has since been credited with having a considerable impact on the execution of the Biden administration’s agenda.
&#8220;Without Kate Bedingfield&#8217;s talent and tenacity, Donald Trump might still be in the White House, the Rescue Plan and the Infrastructure Law might still be unrealized goals, and Ketanji Brown Jackson might not be sitting on the Supreme Court,&#8221; Klain continued.
White House officials have attributed her departure to her desire to “spend more time with her husband and two young children,” ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bidens-communications-director-kate-bedingfield-leaving-white-house/story?id=86327946">reported</a>. She is expected to continue to provide counsel to the White House from outside Pennsylvania Avenue.
&#8220;Her strategic acumen, intense devotion to the President&#8217;s agenda, and fierce work on his behalf are unmatched,” Klain stated. “She will continue to remain a critical player in moving the Biden agenda forward from the outside.&#8221;
Bedingfield’s exit comes as the Biden administration faces historic inflation rates and declining approval ratings, all while the country prepares for the upcoming November midterm elections.
Her departure from the White House mirrors recent moves made by fellow communications staffers, such as former Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Deputy Communications Director Pili Tobar. Other lower-level press aides have also left the White House in the past two months.
Though Bedingfield&#8217;s successor remains under speculation, it is certain that the Biden administration must now add finding replacements for several members of its communications department to its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-take-your-seat-bidens-notecard-has-step-by-step-instructions-for-everything-like-walking-into-room-and-sitting-down">notecard</a>.

White House Director Of Communications Kate Bedingfield Holds Press Briefing

Even Biden’s 2020 Campaign Manager Is Getting Out Before The Midterms

Biden Communications Director Kate Bedingfield To Part Ways With White House

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain tried to downplay President Joe Biden&#8217;s collapsing approval ratings Sunday, after just one poll showed Biden with a slight improvement in approval rating.
&#8220;I hate to spoil the narrative but this poll shows @potus approval rating moving up, and solid public confidence on the two biggest problems he inherited: COVID and jobs,&#8221; Klain tweeted from his official Twitter account Sunday afternoon. Klain was referring to a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-economic-concerns-grow-opinion-poll-2022-05-22/">CBS News poll</a> which showed that Biden&#8217;s approval rating ticked up slightly, and that a slight majority of voters are optimistic about the Biden administration&#8217;s efforts in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and the job prospects in their community.
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I hate to spoil the narrative but this poll shows <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@potus</a> approval rating moving up, and solid public confidence on the two biggest problems he inherited: COVID and jobs. <a href="https://t.co/OPrkWPZxYO">https://t.co/OPrkWPZxYO</a>
&mdash; Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) <a href="https://twitter.com/WHCOS/status/1528418302812471298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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There are a number of problems with Klain&#8217;s analysis of the poll. First, while Biden&#8217;s approval ticked up two points from April to May, the poll has a margin of error of 2.5%, which means that increase is negligible.
Second, the majorities who were optimistic about COVID and jobs were very slight. Meanwhile, the worst of the COVID pandemic has been over for months, and according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22014966-nbc-news-may-poll">other recent polls</a>, the pandemic as an issue is at the very bottom of voters&#8217; minds.
Digging deeper, the CBS poll contains other numbers that spell trouble for the Biden administration. Large majorities of Americans described the state of the country as &#8220;uneasy&#8221; (63%), &#8220;worrying&#8221; (63%), or &#8220;frustrating&#8221; (61%); 69% of Americans said the economy was bad, the highest number on record; nearly three-quarters of Americans, 74%, said things in America are going badly: 77% of Americans said they were concerned about the cost of goods and services; 68% were concerned about the national economy, and 67% about the stock market; 57% were concerned about their plans for retirement.
Respondents also soured on Biden&#8217;s handling of key issues: his approval rating on the economy stood at just 36%, with 64% disapproval; on inflation, just 30%, with 70% disapproval; on Russia-Ukraine, 47% approval, 53% disapproval; on immigration and on crime, 40%-60%.
Furthermore, a majority of Americans, 65% said that Biden is &#8220;too slow to react&#8221; when important issues come up; another majority, 55%, said that Biden does not fight hard to address the country&#8217;s problems; and just 19% of respondents said that Biden cares about their needs and problems &#8220;a lot.&#8221; In contrast, 25% said Biden only cares &#8220;some&#8221; about their problems, 22% said &#8220;not much,&#8221; and a plurality, 34%, said Biden does not care about their needs and problems at all.
Furthermore, contrary to Klain&#8217;s assertion, the CBS poll does not &#8220;spoil the narrative&#8221; around Biden&#8217;s approval rating, which continues to collapse. A growing number of polls are showing that Biden&#8217;s approval has dropped below 40%: an Associated Press/NORC poll conducted last week had Biden&#8217;s approval at just 39%, the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-approval-rating-drops-ap-norc-poll-d41bce85e1b062b588a32908b2affa65">lowest of his presidency</a>; an <a href="https://www.investors.com/politics/ibdtipp-poll-presidential-approval-direction-of-country/">IBD/TIPP</a> poll earlier this month also had his approval at 39%, as did a <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_US_051222/">Monmouth</a> poll; recent polling from <a href="https://civiqs.com/results/approve_president_biden?uncertainty=true&amp;annotations=true&amp;zoomIn=true">Civiqs</a> showed Biden at just 34%, and underwater in 47 out of 50 states; a <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3846">Quinnipiac</a> poll showed him with an approval rating of just 35%, while also showing that his support among <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-cratering-with-hispanics-support-less-than-half-of-2021-poll">Hispanics</a> is less than half of what it was in 2021. According to <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/">FiveThirtyEight</a>, Biden&#8217;s average approval rating is at the lowest of his presidency, at 40.7%. Biden is also slightly below former President Trump&#8217;s approval rating at the same point in their respective presidencies.

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On Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain claimed that President Joe Biden had not been in contact with the Department of Justice regarding an ongoing investigation into the president&#8217;s son, Hunter. He also added that Biden is confident that his family, including his brother Jim, have not crossed any ethical lines as it related to business deals with a Chinese energy company.
ABC News&#8217; George Stephanopoulos asked Klain several pointed questions about Biden&#8217;s awareness and involvement in various business and potentially illicit legal matters relating to Hunter. In a wide-ranging interview Sunday morning, the host of &#8220;This Week&#8221; noted that the &#8220;DOJ is intensifying its investigation&#8221; into Hunter, before saying, &#8220;I assume the president&#8217;s had no contact with the Justice Department about that?&#8221;
&#8220;Neither the president or any of us at the White House have had contact with the Justice Department about that,&#8221; Klain responded. (sic)
&#8220;Is the president confident Hunter Biden didn&#8217;t break the law?&#8221; Stephanopoulos followed up.
&#8220;Of course, the president is confident that his son didn&#8217;t break the law, but most importantly — as I said — that&#8217;s a matter that&#8217;s going to be decided by the Justice Department, by the legal process. It&#8217;s something that nobody at the White House has involvement in,&#8221; Klain claimed.
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On the Biden family corruption scandal, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain says, &quot;Of course the president is confident his son didn&#39;t break the law.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/kn1WHZRDya">pic.twitter.com/kn1WHZRDya</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1510622665282838533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Last week, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/politics/federal-tax-probe/MGWYF5UIYOMEHT4FDFIYLBKE6E/">reported</a> that a &#8220;federal grand jury has heard testimony in recent months about Hunter Biden&#8217;s income and payments he received while serving on the board of a Ukraine energy company, according to two people familiar with the probe.&#8221;
The AP added that &#8220;&#8230;the grand jury activity underscores that a federal tax investigation into President Joe Biden&#8217;s son that began in 2018 remains active as prosecutors continue to examine foreign payments and other aspects of his finances.&#8221;
Hunter and Biden&#8217;s brother, James, have reportedly made millions from foreign business deals that many believe were only granted to the Bidens because of Joe Biden&#8217;s political connections as a senator, vice president, and presidential candidate.
In January, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-bidens-son-hunter-and-other-family-members-have-made-31-million-off-chinese-elites-author-says">reported</a> that best-selling author Peter Schweizer claimed that Hunter and other members of the Biden clan have received at least $31 million from various Chinese elites as part of lucrative trade deals in multiple business ventures. Schweizer detailed this alleged money-making machine in an <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/chinese-elite-have-paid-some-31m-to-hunter-and-the-bidens/">opinion column</a> for the New York Post, excerpted from his latest book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Red-Handed-American-Elites-Helping-China/dp/0063061147/?tag=nypost-20&amp;asc_refurl=https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/chinese-elite-have-paid-some-31m-to-hunter-and-the-bidens/&amp;asc_source=web" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" data-ga-event="{&quot;category&quot;:&quot;affiliate ecommerce click&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:&quot;amazon&quot;,&quot;label&quot;:&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Red-Handed-American-Elites-Helping-China/dp/0063061147/?tag=nypost-20&amp;asc_refurl=https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/chinese-elite-have-paid-some-31m-to-hunter-and-the-bidens/&amp;asc_source=web&quot;}">Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win</a>.”
According to Schweizer, Biden&#8217;s brother James played a role in at least one of those business deals with Chinese elites:
<blockquote>Ye Jianming, a wealthy Chinese businessman and the head of CEFC China Energy, provided $6 million to the Biden family, according to a Senate investigation into Hunter’s activities.
In early 2017, one month after his father left office as vice president, Hunter Biden worked for Ye as a counselor and adviser, and Joe Biden’s brother James received some of the funds that Ye transferred to Hunter.
Five million came in the form of a forgivable, interest-free loan. Ethically, a loan is worse than a cash gift for a politician’s family, because the loan giver can always demand their money back if the recipient of the funds is not doing as they like.</blockquote>
That story was also reported on in Washington Post this past week after the paper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-rest-of-the-country-is-starting-to-open-their-eyes-major-outlets-confirm-contents-of-hunters-laptop">verified</a> the contents of Hunter&#8217;s infamous missing laptop. Like Schqeizer, The Post claimed that &#8220;a Chinese energy company paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter and the president&#8217;s brother.&#8221;
While noting the story from the Post, Stephanoplous asked Klain, &#8220;Is the president confident his family didn&#8217;t cross any ethical lines?&#8221;
&#8220;Ah, George, the president&#8217;s confident that his family did the right thing,&#8221; Klain answered. &#8220;But again, I want to just be really clear these are actions by Hunter and his brother. They&#8217;re private matters, they don&#8217;t involve the president, and they certainly are something that nobody at the White House has been involved in.&#8221;
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Q: &quot;A Chinese energy company paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter and the president&#39;s brother. Is the president confident his family didn&#39;t cross any ethical lines?&quot;
BIDEN CHIEF OF STAFF: &quot;Ah, George, the president&#39;s confident that his family did the right thing.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/hNZAMQ85Kg">pic.twitter.com/hNZAMQ85Kg</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1510623566152278016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Daily Wire also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-stands-by-claim-that-hunter-biden-did-not-profit-off-chinese-business-deals-docs-show-his-companies-made-millions">reported</a> last week that the White House claimed Thursday that Hunter did not make any money off business deals in China despite documented payments worth millions of dollars made to Biden-controlled entities.

Hunter and Joe Biden

Ron Klain: Joe Biden Is ‘Confident’ Hunter Didn’t Break The Law, Family ‘Did The Right Thing’ In Business Deals

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