Biden says ‘I’m proud of my son’ to reporter who asked if Hunter committed a crime

President-elect Joe Biden, when asked on Friday by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy if his son Hunter committed a crime, Biden said that he’s proud of his son.

On Wednesday, Hunter Biden revealed to the public in a bombshell statement that he is under federal investigation regarding his taxes.

On top of that, the past few months have also seen Hunter at the center of increasing controversy, when The New York Post published the details of emails it had obtained from his laptop in an exposé, purporting to show that he leveraged his father’s position as the Obama administration’s public face of its policy toward Ukraine in his business dealings.

In the 15-second clip, President-elect Biden is standing up from behind a table to leave Friday’s transition team press briefing announcing staff, when Doocy—lobs the heavy question from off camera.

“Did Hunter Biden commit a crime?” Doocy shouted at President-elect Biden. “Have you spoken to your son, Mr. President-elect?”

“I’m proud of my son,” Biden replied softly, with the video clip ending after that.

Fox News's Peter Doocy shouted Hunter questions to Biden as he left today's staffing announcements and he got Biden to respond.

Doocy: "Did Hunter Biden commit a crime? Have you spoken to your son, Mr. President-Elect?"

Biden: "I'm proud of my son." pic.twitter.com/czijmq9hoG

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 11, 2020

This isn’t the first time that the president-elect has expressed his pride in his son since Wednesday’s statement from the younger Biden.

The Biden-Harris transition team on Wednesday said of the federal investigation that the president-elect is “deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger.”

Hunter, like his father, has experienced difficult challenges in his life, all while in the public eye. Notably, Hunter’s biological mother and younger sister were killed in a tragic car crash in December 1972, when his father was just elected to the U.S. Senate for the first time. Hunter and his older brother Beau, who died from brain cancer in 2015, were in the car and seriously injured.

Later in his life, Hunter would also struggle immensely in his battle with drug addiction, which President-elect Biden has spoken publicly about.

“My son, like a lot of people, like a lot of people you know at home, had a drug problem,” Biden said during the September 29 debate with Trump, after the president went after Hunter for his 2014 discharge from the U.S. Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine.

“He’s overtaken it, he’s fixed it, he’s worked on it, and I’m proud of him,” Biden added.

https://saraacarter.com/biden-says-im-proud-of-my-son-to-reporter-who-asked-if-hunter-committed-a-crime/

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#PedoJoe

Fauci Addresses African Americans' Skepticism, Notes Black Woman Helped Develop COVID-19 Vaccine

Recent surveys suggest that some Americans, especially those in Black and Latino communities, are hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine once it’s available over concerns about such a drug's safety.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House coronavirus task force, recently addressed skepticism among the Black community regarding the safety of a COVID-19 vaccine, noting that one the vaccine candidate developed by US pharmaceutical company Moderna was worked on by an African American woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett.

"The very vaccine that's one of the two that has absolutely exquisite levels - 94 to 95% efficacy against clinical disease and almost 100% efficacy against serious disease that are shown to be clearly safe - that vaccine was actually developed in my institute's vaccine research center by a team of scientists led by Dr. Barney Graham and his close colleague, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, or Kizzy Corbett," Fauci said on Tuesday, according to The Hill.

“So, the first thing you might want to say to my African American brothers and sisters is that the vaccine that you’re going to be taking was developed by an African American woman. And that is just a fact," Fauci added.

Corbett is the National Institute of Health’s top scientist for COVID-19 vaccine research and was also part of the team that worked with pharmaceutical company Moderna to develop its messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine that is being reviewed for emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this month.

“I would say to people who are vaccine-hesitant that you’ve earned the right to ask the questions that you have around these vaccines and this vaccine development process,” Corbett recently said on the CNN podcast "Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction."

“Trust, especially when it has been stripped from people, has to be rebuilt in a brick-by-brick fashion,” Corbett said. “And so, what I say to people firstly is that I empathize, and then secondly is that I’m going to do my part in laying those bricks. And I think that if everyone on our side, as physicians and scientists, went about it that way, then the trust would start to be rebuilt,” she added.

Although Black Americans and other people of color have been disproportionately impacted by the novel coronavirus compared to white people, according to data by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, studies suggest that there is skepticism of COVID-19 vaccines in the Black community.

A Pew research study completed in June showed that while 54% of Black adults said they would definitely or most likely get a COVID-19 vaccine if one were available, 44% said they would not.

“Black Americans have been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, accounting for a disproportionate share of COVID-19 deaths. At the same time, they stand out from other racial and ethnic groups in their attitudes toward key health care questions associated with the outbreak. In particular, Black adults are more hesitant to trust medical scientists, embrace the use of experimental medical treatments and sign up for a potential vaccine to combat the illness,” Pew concluded in its report.

Another study released by the COVID Collaborative, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and UnidosUS also found that there is a “significant majority" of Black and Latino Americans who don’t trust the safety and efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Harvard University's TH Chan School of Public Health. The survey indicated that only 14% of Black Americans and 34% of Latino Americans "mostly or completely trust" that a vaccine will be safe.

Both Moderna and Pfizer have completed phase 3 clinical trials of their vaccines and have applied for emergency approval for their drugs from the FDA.

On Thursday, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was formally recommended for FDA authorization by an independent panel consisting of scientific experts, infectious disease doctors and statisticians, according to the New York Times.

The FDA is expected to formally authorize the vaccine within days, and the initial shipment of 6.4 million doses will leave warehouses within 24 hours of being cleared by the agency, federal officials told the Times.

The Trump administration on Friday announced that it would purchase an additional 100 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine, bringing the federal government’s total order from the company to 200 million doses.

https://sputniknews.com/society/202012121081434282-fauci-addresses-african-americans-skepticism-notes-black-woman-helped-develop-covid-19-vaccine-/

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Ohio State Employs 100 Workers in Diversity Office Costing the University $10 Million Per Year

One of my favorite political economists is Ludwig von Mises, who gave us the “Seven Rules of Bureaucracy,” the most important being Rule #1: “Maintain the problem at all costs! The problem is the basis of power, perks, privileges, and security.”

Indeed, maintaining the problem is one thing. What happens when you create a problem that didn’t exist? The same rule applies but in spades.

The Ohio State University is a proud institution of higher education with great traditions, a fine football team, and a great marching band. But the school has a huge problem with “diversity.” Or maybe not. Maybe they only think they have a huge problem with diversity. Regardless, their diversity office might be the best-staffed department on campus with 100 employees pulling down $10 million a year in salary and benefits.

The “problem” of diversity is being fiercely maintained, for sure.

College Fix:

In interviews with The College Fix, a couple of current Ohio State students said that they don’t have much interaction with the diversity and inclusion office other than emails they get from the department about events and other announcements.

Another thing the students noted is that the office sends out campuswide emails to respond to incidents of bias and that they are unsure of how effective the division is at creating unity.

From Perry’s perspective, he argues the office represents administrative bloat and refers to the employees as “diversicrats.” He said these costs continue to increase and build upon themselves.

Do you want bureaucracy? How about 16 employees of the 100 making in excess of $100,000 a year?

Some of these job titles have to be someone’s idea of a joke. The Institutional Equity Office has both a “Compliance Officer” and a “Program Director,” as well as an “Executive Director.” There are four — count em’, four — “Director, Office of Diversity and Inclusion” positions. They are all paid different amounts — all over $90,000 a year.

Ohio State has to be the most diverse, the most inclusive institution in the world.

Perry, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, points out that college tuition, fees and textbook costs have increased more than any other good or service analyzed besides hospital costs between January 1998 and June 2020, inflating about 180 percent compared to the overall standard inflation rate of 58.8 percent between those dates.

He adds that the high spending on diversity measures has contributed heavily to these cost spikes, boiling over to a greater barrier to entry into college and higher student loans.

For comparison, Ohio State’s tuition for the 1998-99 academic year came in at under $4,000.

Yes, but think how unwoke Ohio State was in 1998. There weren’t any “safe spaces” to keep students of color being exposed to white people. There were plenty of triggers back then too. The American flag wasn’t banned and I bet they had Bible studies on campus. Politically incorrect comedians appeared on campus, conservative groups meeting right out in the open — it was a mess.

Thank God Ohio State administrators woke up and got woke. With 100 diversity office employees including “academic encouragers,” parents can sleep soundly at night knowing their kid is in the best of hands.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/12/11/ohio-state-employs-100-workers-in-diversity-office-costing-10-million-per-year-n1205269