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Damage Control: Harvey Weinstein Adviser [Anita Dunn] in Line To Become White House Chief of Staff
freebeacon ^ | May 31, 2022 | Andrew Stiles

Posted on 06/01/2022 5:32:46 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

Anita Dunn, the senior Biden aide best known for providing "damage control" advice to disgraced Hollywood rapist Harvey Weinstein, is in line to take over as White House chief of staff after the midterm elections, NBC News reports.

Dunn is widely considered to be a "potential successor" to Ron Klain, the current White House chief of staff who several people close to Biden told NBC News was planning to "depart at some point after the midterms." A longtime public relations guru whose firm, SKDK, has represented an array of corporate clients seeking relief from the anti-business policies Democrats routinely enact when they hold power, Dunn played a leading role in Biden's presidential campaign and served several months as White House communications adviser.

Earlier this year, Dunn secretly rejoined the White House as a "special government employee" to help Biden prepare for his State of the Union address and overhaul the administration's bumbling response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The move raised concern among ethics experts, who noted that the temporary nature of the assignment exempted Dunn from most White House ethics requirements. For example, she did not have to file a public financial disclosure that would have revealed information about her SKDK clients and how much they were paying for her strategic advice.

"This is a person who is appointed in and out of alternating roles, between being a public official with significant influence over administration policy and a private adviser, creating the appearance of being an influence peddler," Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics, told the Washington Post in March.

At the time Dunn was one of at least nine former SKDK employees working in the Biden administration. Now she is one of at least nine of the firm's existing employees who previously served in the federal government. During the 2020 campaign, Biden promised to restore decency to the White House and put an end to the self-dealing and lobbyist influence that, in his view, ran rampant during the Donald Trump administration.

If Dunn ultimately does end up replacing Klain as White House chief of staff, the ethics experts will continue to express concern, but the administration is unlikely to care. NBC News writes that Biden views his former adviser as a "confidant whom he often turns to when his fortunes look bleak." And his fortunes certainly look bleak. Another person mentioned as a possible successor to Klain was Steve Ricchetti. The longtime Biden adviser is the brother of Jeff Ricchetti, an influential lobbyist whose firm, Ricchetti Inc., has experienced an influx of business since Biden took office. Imagine that!

Dunn's reputation as the Democratic Party's foremost crisis communications expert is presumably what prompted Weinstein to contact her for "damage control advice" in 2017 as the New York Times was preparing to publish a story exposing his history of sexual misconduct. According to a statement released by her firm, Dunn had been "asked to speak with [Weinstein] by a friend," and was not paid for her advice. She was presumably familiar with Weinstein, who had donated nearly $600,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since the early 2000s.

In addition to advising the Hollywood rapist, Dunn is best known for expressing admiration for the political philosophy of Mao Zedong, the founder of Chinese communism whose brutal regime was responsible for the deaths of at least 65 million people.


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Dunn is best known for expressing admiration for the political philosophy of Mao Zedong.
1 posted on 06/01/2022 5:32:46 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

I was just going to say that about her admiration of Mao. She also licks her lips like a lizard of which she is.


2 posted on 06/01/2022 5:38:29 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: MarvinStinson

she had to step down from obama admin for calling mao her hero

and here she is


3 posted on 06/01/2022 5:39:55 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: HighSierra5

Reptilians seem to be winning the alien proxy war.


4 posted on 06/01/2022 5:40:27 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: MarvinStinson

She did such a good job for Harvey.


5 posted on 06/01/2022 5:42:11 AM PDT by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: MarvinStinson

She can help in the transition to a more Chinese gummit.


6 posted on 06/01/2022 5:42:15 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: HYPOCRACY

We need Captain James T. Kirk.


7 posted on 06/01/2022 5:42:39 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: MarvinStinson

But of course she is.


8 posted on 06/01/2022 5:42:49 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MarvinStinson

More lip lickkin’ Obamascum.


9 posted on 06/01/2022 5:43:23 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: HighSierra5

Dunn puts the tard in tardive dyskinesia.


10 posted on 06/01/2022 5:44:30 AM PDT by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: HighSierra5

Or Jack O’Neill


11 posted on 06/01/2022 5:46:56 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: HYPOCRACY
Or Jack O’Neill

What about him?


12 posted on 06/01/2022 5:49:45 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: MarvinStinson
Biden and Dunn together - that's telegraphing that the Biden Admin is doubling down on all of the ill advised policies that they are trying to ram down our throats. It's going to be a long three years of Biden manufactured chaos and instability world wide unlike anything we have experienced in our life times. This looks like Soviet Russia during collectivization during the 19020s ad 30s. The parallels are remarkable ad the results will be similar
13 posted on 06/01/2022 5:52:18 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Sirius Lee

He’ll sort out the reptilians.


14 posted on 06/01/2022 5:52:53 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: HighSierra5

“We need Captain James T. Kirk.”

No. We need a Samuel Adams.

And for products of a pubic school education, I do not mean the beer.


15 posted on 06/01/2022 5:55:16 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't underestimate The Republican Party's ability to f*ck things up)
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To: dforest

Yes, this is Obama taking over the White House and not even trying to hide it.


16 posted on 06/01/2022 5:56:55 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: MarvinStinson
She is second best known for a six month crash program to creat the White House Ultra MAGA media messaging campaign. This is going to be interesting. She does not live in the real world the rest of us do.
17 posted on 06/01/2022 6:01:45 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: MarvinStinson

Doesn’t matter who writes the narrative for the demented one. Come November he’s done.


18 posted on 06/01/2022 6:03:28 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Well, he did say he wanted an unofficial 3rd term. That is why Biden was used as the sock puppet. Biden is too mentally impaired to take in the scope of all that he is doing. Biden runs nothing, the Obama regime is running things and boy is it a giant mess. The good part for Obama is that all of this chaos can be laid at the feet of sloppy dementia Joe instead of him.

The whole thing is sickening and very dangerous because they are doing all they can to provoke and piss off other nuke armed nations

Fact is, they don’t even care if nukes fly. They will gather in their bunkers and emerge to enjoy the spoils of war. I hope people understand this. They do not care if nukes fly, they are provoking this very thing.


19 posted on 06/01/2022 6:06:53 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Water seeks its own level.

All these low-life creeps end up together!


20 posted on 06/01/2022 6:10:22 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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