{"id":113849,"date":"2021-01-29T22:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T03:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113849"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T15:58:15","slug":"white-house-already-having-to-deal-with-ethical-headache-created-by-kamala-harris-niece-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-already-having-to-deal-with-ethical-headache-created-by-kamala-harris-niece-report\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Already Having To Deal With \u2018Ethical Headache\u2019 Created By Kamala Harris\u2019 Niece: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-already-having-to-deal-with-ethical-headache-created-by-kamala-harris-niece-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=113849&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Biden administration is already facing ethics issues surrounding Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; niece, Meena Harris, who they are reportedly concerned is &#8220;leveraging her relationship with her aunt&#8221; to advance her own interests.<\/p>\n<p>The White House&#8217;s alleged concern comes after President Joe Biden has repeatedly been dogged over accusations that members of his family have benefited from their relationship with him when he was a senator and vice president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Vice President and her family will uphold the highest ethical standards and it\u2019s the White House\u2019s policy that the Vice President&#8217;s name should not be used in connection with any commercial activities that could reasonably be understood to imply an endorsement or support,\u201d Sabrina Singh, a spokesperson for Harris, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the policy has been trickier to enforce with Meena than some other family members, given how much Kamala\u2019s image is intertwined with her business projects,&#8221; Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/transition-playbook\/2021\/01\/29\/the-meena-problem-491577\">reported<\/a>. &#8220;After Biden was officially declared the winner last November, transition ethics lawyers informed Meena that she could sell the rest of her Kamala-themed apparel but could not restock the items. Phenomenal\u2019s &#8216;Kamala Harris Swimsuit,&#8217; &#8216;phenomenal Kamala Tank,&#8217; and &#8216;Kamala T-shirt,&#8217; that appeared on the site last fall are no longer sold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The author of Politico&#8217;s report <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/rrov1\">noted<\/a> in a tweet that Meena Harris was already becoming an &#8220;ethical headache&#8221; for the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Kamala and Maya\u2019s Big Idea,&#8217; which was published in June 2020 before Biden picked Kamala as vice president, poses further ethical knots. White House officials say that Meena would be prohibited from publishing that book now because it uses Kamala\u2019s name in the title and her likeness on the cover, which is a drawing of a younger Kamala with Maya Harris, Meena\u2019s mother,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;The book doesn\u2019t violate the White House\u2019s policies because she published it before Kamala became vice president, they say. It\u2019s not clear if Meena continuing to accept royalties on the book is permitted, however. Asked if she is still accepting royalties, Meena did not comment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report said that the Biden administration was &#8220;worried&#8221; about Meena Harris &#8220;following the spirit of the rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another problematic example that the report noted occurred shortly after Biden picked Harris to be his running mate last year and Meena Harris &#8220;pushed&#8221; the campaign to sell a shirt on their website that she designed. The campaign later removed the shirt from the website &#8220;for appearance sake&#8221; because Meena Harris&#8217; name was on the shirt and the campaign &#8220;didn\u2019t want to make it seem or appear that she would be benefiting or profiting from the campaign,&#8221; a Biden official told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Meena Harris has also allegedly traveled on a private plane that was owned by a donor to Biden&#8217;s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Meena Harris created even more potential issues for the Biden administration to deal with when she announced, following the election, that she created a production company with a former member of the Obama White House. Politico noted that one of the company&#8217;s first projects was a two-minute video that featured the vice president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meena\u2019s company produced the video with the Supermajority Education Fund, a nonprofit devoted to women\u2019s leadership. (An allied super PAC, Supermajority, spent more than $1 million running ads backing Biden and opposing President DONALD TRUMP last year; most of its funding came from a super PAC started by George Soros). On YouTube, the ad lists Meena as a producer,&#8221; Politico added. &#8220;The White House said it did not know if Meena was paid for the ad, or whether her company volunteered its time. If the former, it might violate White House policy. Asked if she was paid by Supermajority, Meena didn\u2019t respond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of this comes as the Biden family has repeatedly faced accusations that Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, has used his relationship with his father to advance his own business interests. A separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2019\/08\/02\/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407\">report<\/a> from Politico in 2019 outlined other accusations that the Biden family has faced about how they allegedly cashed in on their relationship with the now-president.<\/p>\n<p>The drama surrounding Meena Harris also comes after IMG Models, a top modeling agency, announced that they signed Kamala Harris&#8217; stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff. The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyt-called-out-by-former-top-employee-for-gushing-over-kamala-harris-stepdaughter-landing-modeling-gig\">noted<\/a> that the signing came after \u201cthe inauguration ceremony brought a new level of public attention to Ms. Emhoff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is already facing ethics issues surrounding Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 niece, Meena Harris, who they are reportedly concerned is \u201cleveraging her relationship with her aunt\u201d to advance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892260,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4179,3715,4182,3653,3765,3635],"class_list":["post-113849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-already","tag-deal","tag-having","tag-house","tag-white","tag-with"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}