Laura Ingraham and Dinesh D’Souza Slam Biden Over Family Dealings with China, Never Once Mention Ivanka’s Chinese Trademarks, Trump Org’s Overseas Businesses
Fox News host Laura Ingraham hosted Dinesh D’Souza on her show Thursday evening and the two heavily criticized Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for “corruption” related to business deals conducted by his family members in China — but never once mentioned the various deals that President Donald Trump‘s own family has had in China.
“It’s a fact, that for nearly fifty years,” Ingraham said, introducing the segment, “Biden has been playing working-class Americans for fools, so he’ll kinda happily slap people in the back, working men and women across the country, but when he’s back in D.C., well, he snuggles up to the lobbyists and political hacks that end up destroying the livelihoods of the middle class and shipping those jobs to China.”
After some snide remarks about Biden’s “frailty” and “mental decline,” which D’Souza echoed, Ingraham asked for his comments, and he replied that “in the area of corruption,” Biden had “demonstrated great competence.” D’Souza mentioned several overseas trips that Biden took as vice president where one of his brothers or his son, Hunter Biden, accompanied him and conducted business while abroad.
“The Chinese have a long-standing practice of extending deals to family members in exchange for favorable treatment from foreign leaders,” D’Souza said, without any hint that his broad accusations against Biden could also indict the current occupant of the Oval Office.
Not mentioned during the segment:
- Ivanka Trump meeting with Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe shortly after Trump’s election victory in November 2016 while she was negotiating a licensing deal with a company whose primary shareholder is a bank owned by the Japanese government;
- Eric Trump‘s South American business trip shortly before the inauguration that cost taxpayers nearly $100,000 in hotel expenses for his Secret Service detail;
- White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway telling viewers during an February 2017 appearance on Fox & Friends to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff;”
- Ivanka Trump securing provisional approval from the Chinese government for three trademarks for her Ivanka-branded jewelry, bags, and spa services — right after she and Trump dined with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in April 2017;
- Trump-branded products sold by the Trump Organization that were manufactured in China;
- Reports of low pay and abusive conditions for workers at Chinese factories that were manufacturing Ivanka-branded products;
- The Trump Organization continuing to do deals with foreign countries during Trump’s first term, despite a promise not to do so;
- Trump continuously directing government business to his hotels and resorts, profiting from the fees charged to the Secret Service agents who must travel with him…and so on.
To be fair, The Ingraham Angle is only an hour-long show, so it would be difficult to find the time to mention all of these stories.
Watch the video above, via Fox News.
