{"id":1413401,"date":"2022-03-31T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413401"},"modified":"2022-03-31T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T19:46:20","slug":"report-eric-schmidt-deepens-ties-to-bidens-science-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-eric-schmidt-deepens-ties-to-bidens-science-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Eric Schmidt Deepens Ties to Biden&#039;s Science Office"},"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\">18<\/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%2Freport-eric-schmidt-deepens-ties-to-bidens-science-office%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=1413401&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 class=\"subheading\">Former Google boss Eric Schmidt\u2019s fingerprints are \u201call over\u201d the Biden White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a closeness that even a former Obama White House ethics official has criticized, according to a report in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/28\/google-billionaire-joe-biden-science-office-00020712\">Politico<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Politico<\/em> story also reveals that Schmidt Futures, a charity arm of the former Google executive, sought to pay the salaries of OSTP officials, a move that sparked ethics complaints.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Breitbart News has reported at length on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/01\/22\/eric-schmidts-year-old-defense-startup-already-tied-to-biden-admin\/\">closeness of Eric Schmidt to Democrat administrations<\/a>, as well as his role as a Hillary Clinton lackey in 2016. Breitbart News has also covered Schmidt\u2019s elaborate efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/03\/16\/former-google-boss-and-clinton-lackey-eric-schmidt-pushes-deeper-ties-between-big-tech-and-defense-industry\/\">involve himself in U.S. defense\u00a0policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20442251\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/us-president-joe-biden-comment-vladimir-putin-remain-power-delivered-warsaw-at-close-of-thre.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden delivers a speech about the Russian war in Ukraine at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland on March 26, 2022. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski \/ AFP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8405378\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Obama-Schmidt-AP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8405378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Obama-Schmidt-AP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, speaks with Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007. (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to <em>Politico<\/em>, Schmidt\u2019s scheming extends to U.S. science policy as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/28\/google-billionaire-joe-biden-science-office-00020712\">Via\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/28\/google-billionaire-joe-biden-science-office-00020712\">Politico<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A foundation controlled by Eric Schmidt, the multi-billionaire former CEO of Google, has played an extraordinary, albeit private, role in shaping the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen officials in the 140-person White House office have been associates of Schmidt\u2019s, including some current and former Schmidt employees, according to interviews with current and former staff members and internal emails obtained by POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt maintained a close relationship with the president\u2019s former science adviser, Eric Lander, and other Biden appointees. And his charity arm, Schmidt Futures, indirectly paid the salaries of two science-office employees, including, for six weeks, that of the current chief of staff, Marc Aidinoff, who is now one of the most senior officials in the office following Lander\u2019s resignation in February. The chief innovation officer at Schmidt Futures, OSTP alum Tom Kalil, also remained on Schmidt\u2019s payroll while working as an unpaid consultant at the science office for four months last year until he left the post following ethics complaints.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ethics outcry over Schmidt\u2019s involvement with the Office of Science and Technology Policy has focused on OSTP officials remaining on Schmidt Futures salaries while working there.<\/p>\n<p>Even an ethics official from the Obama Administration, which had <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/04\/22\/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts\/\">unprecedented ties to Google<\/a> while Schmidt led the company, is quoted by\u00a0<em>Politico\u00a0<\/em>noting the problems with Schmidt\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might say that the desire of a philanthropy to support government is noble, but at least the appearance question that is raised is whether government should be making its own determinations about that. There should not be the appearance that perhaps outside actors are unduly shaping that policy,\u201d said the official.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Google boss Eric Schmidt\u2019s fingerprints are \u201call over\u201d the Biden White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a closeness that even a former Obama White House ethics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413401","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\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}