Kamala opposes a Cuba embargo. Her husband’s law firm cashed in on Cuban business.
During the 2020 primaries, Kamala Harris told the Tampa Bay Times that she wanted to end what she called the “failed trade embargo” on Cuba. Few outside the Cuban American community paid attention to her answer and it was assumed that her willingness to prop up the Communist dictatorship was consistent with her general left-wing views on foreign policy.
No one in the media was asked whether she had a financial stake in keeping Cuba open.
When the Biden campaign released the 2019 tax returns for Kamala and her husband Douglas Emhoff, it was very clear that while Doug might be auditioning to be the ‘Second Gentleman’, the entertainment lawyer was by far the primary breadwinner with $2.7 million from his current law firm DLP Piper and $115,258 from his partnership stake in his old law firm Venable LLP.
The 2020 tax returns reflected another $181,627 from Venable.
Venable, which bought Emhoff’s old law firm and made him a partner, casts a wide net and boasts that it “helped a client obtain the first licenses for commercial shipping between the United States and Cuba.” When cruise lines were sued for “trafficking” in stolen property by using a port confiscated from its rightful owners by the Communist dictatorship. Venable represented one of them, and represented a ‘red’ and ‘green’ case involving wind turbines being transformed from China to Cuba after the Trump administration brought back Cuban sanctions that allowed lawsuits by Americans against companies profiting from their confiscated property.
While lawyers can take on all sorts of clients, Venable appears to have had a longstanding interest in the embargo on Cuba, issuing client alerts, hosting a conference and offering to help clients explore options for doing business in the Communist dictatorship.
Venable was even registered at one point as lobbying on Cuba trade.
But the most explosive Cuba case in which Venable took a hand involved accusations of human trafficking went on even while Kamala was serving as vice president and aiding the defendant.
In 2022, the Biden-Harris administration announced that it would provide $100 million to train 500,000 medical personnel with the UN’s Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) even as the organization was being sued by Cuban doctors who had been used as medical slave labor.
At the Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, attended by Biden and Kamala Harris, there was no mention of the disturbing allegations against the organization. Or the fact that it was being represented by the law firm where the Harris-Emhoff family had made a fortune.
The allegations against the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) were laid out again in a congressional letter last year from Rep. Maria Salazar, the daughter of Cuban refugees, and Rep. Carlos Giménez, a Cuban exile. The letter noted that Cuban doctors are suing “PAHO for playing a major role in trafficking over 10,000 Cuban doctors”, that “PAHO also funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to the Cuban government and pocketed at least $75 million” and that PAHO is “receiving tens of millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funding every year.” --->READ MORE HERE
In Harris, the left finally has a candidate who represents the soul of their new party — a shrill, race-hustling 59-year-old childless woman.
Bernie: Equal opportunity, not outcomes.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 23, 2024
Kamala: We need equal outcomes for all. pic.twitter.com/ZqsDWRcvmE
After watching this clip, it’s obvious that Harris outflanks Bernie Sanders to his leBft, something not to be overlooked considering Sanders is a self-avowed socialist (the fact that Sanders uses the oxymoron “democratic socialist” to describe himself is not relevant).
Through “equity,” Harris believes everyone can “end up in the same place.” Communism distilled to its most fundamental principle is the pursuit of equality of outcome through central planning. Some might suggest I am putting words in Harris’ mouth, but that excuse is either obtuse or ignorant. Would Harris describe her belief system as communism? Of course not, but so what? The arbitrary and flattering labels people apply to themselves are meaningless. Your belief system is defined by its ideas.
If someone running for office intends to murder you for no good reason as soon as he’s elected, but he calls himself the Peaceful Unicorn, which part is more relevant — the fact that he’s going to murder you, or the name he picked for himself? In this same vein, the label Harris might give to her belief system is immaterial. Harris stating that “people need more so we all end up in the same place” and the phrase “I am a communist” represent a distinction without a difference. Both phrases mean the exact same thing.
It is, of course, impossible for everyone to end up in the same place, but to even attempt this would require government control of every facet of the economy and the categorical elimination of individual rights. Even if Harris doesn’t want those things at this very moment, it is her destiny. It has been the destiny of every utopianist who has ever lived.
Because the magical world Harris lusts for is impossible to attain, each law or executive decree will inevitably fail to achieve equality of outcome and will therefore be replaced by a more extreme version of the same policy. It’s not that their idea is fatally flawed, it’s that they didn’t go far enough, you see. --->READ MORE HERE
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