The National Pulse has exposed an email taken from Hunter Biden’s hard drive in which Alexander Snyder-Mackler advised that then-Vice President Joe Biden “sell out” by joining corporate boards.
Mackler, a member of Biden’s White House “transition team” who is helping to review the Department of Justice, and a political aide since at least 2008, was genuinely faithful in looking out for Joe’s bottom line when he sent out the email.
The July 13, 2016 email was sent by Mackler to Ted Kaufman, current Biden transition leader and a former U.S. senator; Steve Richetti, the newly selected counselor to President-Elect Biden; Hunter Biden; Eric Schwerin, Hunter Biden’s partner in the Communist Chinese Party (CCP)-funded Rosemont Senaca company; and former Ambassador to Romania Mark Gitenstein. It reads:
I know this has been talked about already…
If Evan Bayh can sell out for $1m/year in corporate boards, have to believe JRB can do quite well with just non-oil, non-Goldman boards that are consistent with his career (Bloomberg, GM, cancer hospitals, etc.).
-Bayh made nearly $! million from serving on corporate boards last year. Bayh earned $939,319 from sitting on corporate boards in 2015, according to SEC records. He sits on the boards of Fifth Third Bancorp, Marathon Petroleum, RLJ Lodging Trust, and Berry Plastics Group. RLJ paid him $177,573 in 2015. Marathon paid him $300,000, Fifth Third paid him $243,564, and Berry Plastics Group paid him $218,182.
The email acknowledges that “sell[ing] out” had been a topic of discussion before. Then it boasts that if former Senator Evan Bayh can make $1 million from corporate board positions, then “JRB can do quite well with just non-oil, non-Goldman boards that are consistent with his career (Bloomberg, GM, cancer hospitals, etc.)” (“JRB” are the initials for Joe Biden, whose full name is Joseph Robinette Biden.)
As concerned as Mackler was about Joe raking in the big bucks from corporate influence peddling, he needn’t have bothered considering Joe’s ability to include his son Hunter in wheeling and dealing with China.
It is interesting to note that this email encouraging Biden to join Bayh at the corporate trough is by the same Alexander Snyder-Mackler who recently approvingly described what the leader of Biden’s transition team is looking for:
He [Kaufman] is going to be looking to avoid people who give off the impression that they are first looking out for themselves — people who want to work for the administration for a year or two and then go monetize their service. He has been clear for a long time that he doesn’t look kindly upon the revolving door.
Yet if Kaufman were looking very deeply for integrity in the potentially incoming Biden administration, he probably would not find it, starting with Joe Biden himself.
In a bit of a “but you promised” tirade, the Progressive website Common Dreams has labeled several members of Biden’s transition team as “corporate insiders” and has already joined with other socialists in working to stop him from keeping them in his administration, including:
Steve Ricchetti: Steve Ricchetti has spent his entire career shuffling through the revolving door, lobbying on behalf of corporate interests from both K Street and within the halls of government — which is why it’s deeply disappointing and dangerous that he’s in line to serve as senior counselor to the president in Biden’s administration.
Mark Gitenstein: While working as a corporate lobbyist, Mark Gitenstein listed many successes, including weakening whistleblower laws and packing federal courts with business-friendly judges.
Perhaps the Progressives should have looked to other news sources than the mainstream media and Common Dreams, they might not have joined the uninformed ranks who voted for Biden.
