{"id":1556664,"date":"2022-07-15T15:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556664"},"modified":"2022-07-15T15:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T19:04:34","slug":"lawyer-representing-biden-donor-accused-of-murdering-family-is-also-biden-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawyer-representing-biden-donor-accused-of-murdering-family-is-also-biden-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Representing Biden Donor Accused of Murdering Family Is Also Biden Donor"},"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\">24<\/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%2Flawyer-representing-biden-donor-accused-of-murdering-family-is-also-biden-donor%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=1556664&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--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The controversial attorney is best known for his racist attacks on Nikki Haley <\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 July 15, 2022 2:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Joe Biden campaign donor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/joe-biden-alex-murdaugh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Murdaugh<\/a>\u00a0was charged Thursday with killing his wife and 22-year-old son. The lawyer representing the accused murderer, who faces a slew of additional charges for financial fraud and illicit drug distribution, is also a Biden donor.<\/p>\n<p>Murdaugh&#8217;s attorney Dick Harpootlian is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2016\/01\/14\/former_sc_dem_chairman_harpootlian_im_a_joe_biden_guy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">self-described<\/a> &#8220;Joe Biden guy&#8221; who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=richard+harpootlian&#038;cycle=&#038;state=&#038;zip=&#038;employ=&#038;jurisdiction=&#038;cand=biden&#038;type=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> the maximum allowable sum of $5,600 to the Democrat&#8217;s presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020. Before that, he contributed $20,000 to the Draft Joe Biden super PAC in 2015.\u00a0The attorney&#8217;s wife, Jamie Lindler Harpootlian, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=jamie+harpootlian&#038;cycle=&#038;state=&#038;zip=&#038;employ=&#038;jurisdiction=&#038;cand=biden&#038;type=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donated<\/a> $5,600 to Biden&#8217;s most recent campaign. She currently serves as U.S. ambassador to Slovenia, a role for which the president nominated her in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1990, the Democratic power couple have donated more than $800,000 to their party&#8217;s candidates and committees, according to Open Secrets.\u00a0It&#8217;s possible that Murdaugh, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=alex+murdaugh&#038;order=desc&#038;sort=D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributed<\/a> $2,800 to Biden in 2020, funneled his donation through his attorney.\u00a0Harpootlian helped raise at least $100,000 in his role as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/biden\/bundlers?t0-search=harpootlian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bundler<\/a> for Biden&#8217;s campaign that year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to representing the Biden donor accused of murder, Harpootlian is best known for making racist comments about Nikki Haley, the former Republican governor of South Carolina. In 2012, the Anti-Defamation League <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/press-releases\/adl-holocaust-analogies-have-no-place-politics-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">condemned<\/a> Harpootlian for &#8220;trivializing the Holocaust&#8221; after he compared Haley to Adolf Hitler&#8217;s mistress Eva Braun. He was widely denounced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/india\/nikki-haley-faces-racist-attack-on-her-indian-roots-757331.html\/amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">again<\/a> in 2013 for telling Democratic Party activists to &#8220;send Nikki Haley&#8221;\u2014whose parents immigrated from India\u2014&#8221;back to wherever the hell she came from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harpootlian is a member of the South Carolina Senate, where he has served since 2018. He recently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-confidant-start-firing-people-or-pack-your-bags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0that Biden&#8217;s aides were &#8220;too woke, and too on social media&#8221; and the president needed to &#8220;fire somebody&#8221; because &#8220;whatever they&#8217;re doing, it&#8217;s not working.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats The controversial attorney is best known for his racist attacks on Nikki Haley  Andrew Stiles \u2022 July 15, 2022 2:50 pm Joe Biden campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"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-1556664","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\/1556664","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556664\/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=1556664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}