Can you see what’s wrong with this Fox News story?
President Biden’s niece worked in The Coca-Cola Company’s government relations arm as the company lobbied against a bill that would have banned US companies from importing a large swath of Chinese goods made with forced labor from Uyghur Muslims.
Missy Owens formerly worked in the American soda giant’s government affairs division for almost a decade, leaving in November of last year. The New York Times reported shortly after she left the company that Coca-Cola had joined Nike and other companies in lobbying against the Uighur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
I knew that you could see the problem. The first paragraph says she worked there “as the company lobbied against a bill” and then in the second it says she left the company before they lobbied against the bill.
It’s obvious what they’re insinuating: that the “woke corporations” they now consider to be enemies for speaking out against vote suppression laws are hypocrites because they lobbied against a bill that would have prevented them from buying goods made with forced labor. They too are hypocrites, of course — their Dear Leader, the man they all worship like a god, had this to say on the issue last July:
In an interview with Axios published on Sunday, Mr. Trump was asked why he had not approved a Treasury Department plan in late 2018 to impose sanctions on Chinese government officials who were connected to the severe crackdown on China’s Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.
“Well, we were in the middle of a major trade deal,” Mr. Trump said.
Trying to tie Biden into the corporate hypocrisy through his niece is a reach in any case. (And I don’t need to point out again all of Trump’s real conflicts of interest and corruption while in office…) But to smear her with this policy when she quit before they did it — and for all we know, because they did it — is just sloppy and stupid.
I think Fox is going after Biden’s family in retaliation for what they saw as unfair attacks on Trump’s family, even though he brought Ivanka and Jared into the White House and the boys spent all their time defending their father on television while blatantly selling access to potential business partners and political supporters. But it’s also to try to hurt Biden personally with his strong, sentimental attachment to his family. Maybe they think they can bait him into breaking down in public or something. It’s sick.