{"id":601317,"date":"2021-07-23T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T19:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601317"},"modified":"2021-07-23T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T19:05:49","slug":"quid-pro-cone-the-biden-ice-cream-scandal-no-ones-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/quid-pro-cone-the-biden-ice-cream-scandal-no-ones-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"QUID PRO CONE: The Biden Ice Cream Scandal No One\u2019s Talking About"},"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\">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%2Fquid-pro-cone-the-biden-ice-cream-scandal-no-ones-talking-about%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=601317&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 readability=\"29.833333333333\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/\">Satire<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Presidential campaign spent $12K on Jeni&#8217;s Ice Cream, raising ethics concerns<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-ice-cream-final-736x485-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-ice-cream-final-736x485.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-ice-cream-final-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-ice-cream-final-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-ice-cream-final-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-ice-cream-final.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\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 23, 2021 3:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"80.339657282742\">\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s obsession with ice cream, and the professional media&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/joe-biden-breaks-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">childlike fascination<\/a> with that obsession, is a little weird. But there&#8217;s nothing sinister about it. <em>Or is there<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>A <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> investigation uncovered some troubling details about the president&#8217;s financial relationship to a particular Ohio-based ice cream company, suggesting a corrupt&nbsp;<em>quid pro cone&nbsp;<\/em>arrangement that reeks of moral depravity.<\/p>\n<p>Records <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/disbursements\/?committee_id=C00703975&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2020&amp;cycle=2020&amp;line_number=F3P-23&amp;data_type=processed&amp;recipient_name=Jeni%27s+splendid+ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show<\/a> that Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign spent just shy of $12,000 on Jeni&#8217;s Ice Cream, the luxury brand House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) opulently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8939861\/Left-wing-Democrats-claim-Pelosis-expensive-ice-cream-drawer-voters-lockdown-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">displayed<\/a> in her $24,000 mega fridge while average Americans were suffering the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My name is Joe Biden and I love ice cream,&#8221; said the former vice president during a visit to Jeni&#8217;s headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. The company returned the favor just one day after Biden was sworn in as president by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jenisicecreams\/status\/1352270030365478917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unveiling<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/jenis.com\/whitehouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new flavor<\/a>, White House Chocolate Chip, in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;White House Chocolate Chip mimics a double scoop of chocolate chip on a waffle cone\u2014President Joe Biden\u2019s favorite order\u2014by featuring chocolate two ways: with crunchy chocolate flakes and chocolate-covered waffle cone pieces, all wrapped into a sweet and velvety vanilla bean cream,&#8221; the company boasts on its website.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to raising ethics concerns, the Biden campaign&#8217;s exorbitant spending on frozen treats suggests a lack of financial and psychological restraint that most American taxpayers would find alarming. Perhaps most disturbingly, it is a cry for help from a sick man struggling to control his crippling addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Professional journalists devoted considerable resources to investigating the health habits of former president Donald Trump and published entire articles on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/11\/politics\/trump-time-magazine-ice-cream\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two scoops<\/a> of vanilla he ate for dessert. Yet they seem unconcerned that Biden, who turns 79 in November, is a ravenous fiend who frequently risks his life, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-staffer-trauma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health of the country<\/a>, by indulging in even greater quantities of ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>Jeni&#8217;s is not the only major ice cream corporation to be tainted by political scandal. Earlier this week, Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s came under fire for refusing to sell its products in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, a move critics assailed as <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/bds-jerrys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blatantly anti-Semitic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-3 text-red font-serif text-xl md:text-4xl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/anti-semitic-ice-cream-flavor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s Targets Anti-Semite Demographic With Audacious New Ice Cream Flavors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satire Presidential campaign spent $12K on Jeni&#8217;s Ice Cream, raising ethics concerns  Andrew Stiles \u2022 July 23, 2021 3:00 pm President Joe Biden&#8217;s obsession with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601317","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\/601317","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601317\/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=601317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}