{"id":1822317,"date":"2023-01-24T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822317"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:24:44","slug":"report-ex-harvey-weinstein-adviser-gains-new-power-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-ex-harvey-weinstein-adviser-gains-new-power-in-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Ex-Harvey Weinstein Adviser Gains New Power in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-ex-harvey-weinstein-adviser-gains-new-power-in-the-white-house%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=1822317&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-->\n<\/p>\n<p>Anita Dunn offered rapist &#8220;damage control advice,&#8221; Influence could be gained under the new chief of staff Anita Dunn\/Youtube Screenshot    <\/p>\n<p>Ron Klain&#8217;s departure as President Joe Biden\u2019s chief of staff may see the departure of a top aide who offered support to the president. &#8220;damage control advice&#8221; According to a Tuesday report, Harvey Weinstein, convicted of rape, has gained more influence at the White House. <em>Politico<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/24\/jeff-zients-challenges-biden-presidency-00079145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Klain will be stepping down as chief of staff next month. He has been involved in politics and legislative outreach. <em>Politico<\/em>. Sources in the White House told the outlet that Klain&#8217;s successor Jeff Zients will assume responsibility for these matters. Anita Dunn and other senior aides were previously Weinstein advisers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zients will likely defer to top Biden aides Anita Dunn, Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon, Steve Ricchetti and others &#8230; while he focuses on the West Wing\u2019s operations and processes,&#8221; <em>Politico<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn was the communications director for President Obama&#8217;s administration. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/biden-harvey-weinstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helped<\/a> Weinstein, disgraced Hollywood producer and Democratic megadonor, strategizes in advance of the release of a <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/05\/us\/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> Weinstein of sexual harassment allegations. Dunn wasn&#8217;t paid for her help.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn found classified documents relating to Biden&#8217;s time in the vice presidency position at the Penn Biden center after they were discovered in his office. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/20\/us\/politics\/biden-classified-documents.html\">reportedly<\/a> The White House was asked by the group to protect the information about the discovery from the general public. Bob Bauer, Biden\u2019s top lawyer, is responsible for his legal strategy in the document scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn, who NBC News called a &#8220;confidant whom [Biden] often turns to when his fortunes look bleak,&#8221; Klain&#8217;s departure could mean that Klain isn&#8217;t the only Biden aide with a scandalous record.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon, who established a political advisory firm <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/dark-money-groups-fund-liberal-push-to-pass-infrastructure-without-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linked<\/a> to dark money organizations and was the presidential campaign manager for Biden &#038; Beto O&#8217;Rourke. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/biden-taps-campaign-manager-who-advocated-for-ar-15-confiscation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advocated<\/a> Refusing to confiscate AR-15s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/senate-dems-announce-racial-litmus-test-for-biden-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> by Senator Tammy Duckworth, D., Ill. &#8220;incredibly insulting&#8221; By referring to Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s Asian heritage, you are committing offense<\/p>\n<p>Ricchetti has faced <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/top-biden-aides-lobbyist-brother-wins-presidential-visit-for-client\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scrutiny<\/a> His brother&#8217;s position as a lobbyist for the White House prompted ethics watchdogs to investigate. He briefly held the position of managing director at the Penn Biden Center before joining the Biden administration. This is where Biden&#8217;s classified documents are kept. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/more-classified-biden-docs-discovered-at-undisclosed-location\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovered<\/a> November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The departure of Ron Klain as President Joe Biden&#8217;s chief of staff could see a top aide to the president who offered &#8220;damage control advice&#8221; to convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein gain even more influence in the White House, according to a Tuesday Politico report.<br \/>\nThe post Report: Ex-Harvey Weinstein Adviser Gains New Power in the White House appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":1822320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[544],"tags":[4205,16276,9816,3653,5084,3819,10435,3765],"class_list":["post-1822317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-adviser","tag-ex-harvey","tag-gains","tag-house","tag-power","tag-report","tag-weinstein","tag-white"],"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\/1822317","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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}