Quote:As RedState reported, former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was finally confirmed to the position of Ambassador to India after a contentious battle in the US Senate. In an inexplicable move, seven Republican senators, including the likes of Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, pushed Garcetti over the finish line, voting to confirm him.

Their move was especially egregious given that the failed mayor would not have had the votes otherwise given that three Democrat senators voted against him. Now, we are learning about the backroom pressure campaign that went on, and it’s not just a bad look for Republicans. It’s a bad look for the White House as well.

According to Punchbowl News (a DC insider outlet), Biden pursued a relentless campaign to strong-arm female senators into voting for Garcetti, who was recently caught up in a scandal involving his enabling of sexual abuse. Here’s RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar laying out the background on that situation.

Then we have at least five documented sexual assaults (yes, assault, as in unwanted sexual touching) by his Deputy Mayor, Rick Jacobs, against staffers in the LA mayor’s office, with lawsuits ongoing. Then, there’s the retaliation against people who finally called him and Rick Jacobs out, and the perjury Garcetti committed during an earlier Senate hearing when he said he knew nothing about Jacobs’ ongoing sexual assaults — after 19 (yes, 19!) whistleblowers testified.

That apparently didn’t bother Biden, though. The president was fully onboard with Garcetti’s nomination, and he was willing to boot the entire #metoo movement off a cliff to make it happen. So much for the “empathizer-in-chief” nonsense.

As bad as that looks, the question that no one seems to be asking is why Biden wanted Garcetti in that position so badly. We aren’t talking about a major cabinet position here where you would expect a president to tie himself to a sexual abuse scandal. Ambassadorships are a dime a dozen and who fills those roles is largely irrelevant. How many names of ambassadors can you list? Not many, right? It is highly unusual for a president to go this hard for a troubled nominee for an ambassadorship, yet that’s what Biden did.

Again, why did he do that? We know that Garcetti’s wealthy family hired lobbyists to secure him the nomination. What did those lobbyists promise Biden in return for his unwavering support? The answer has to be something because otherwise none of this makes sense. That’s the big scandal here that no one is talking about. Nothing is free in Washington.

Regardless, it is incredible to see the hypocrisy shown by Biden and the Democratic Party as a whole when it comes to those caught up in sexual abuse scandals. When it’s politically convenient, they’ll shout from the rooftops about believing all women and throw whoever is necessary under the bus. But when it’s not politically convenient, they’ll completely ignore all the facts on the ground and pretend like their past proclamations never happened.

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Here Are The Seven GOP Senators Who Voted to Confirm Biden Nominee With Ties to Alleged Chinese Communist Intel Groups

Quote:Seven Republican Senators voted on Wednesday to confirm Eric Garcetti, President Joe Biden’s nominee for ambassador to India and former Los Angeles mayor, despite his ties to individuals belonging to alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence front groups.

Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Steve Daines of Montana, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Roger Marshall of Kansas and Todd Young of Indiana voted to confirm Garcetti following a delay of over 20 months arising from allegations that, while in office, he helped cover up sexual assaults committed by his former aide, Rick Jacobs.

The confirmation vote, 52-42, also comes just days after the Daily Caller News Foundation revealed that a mayoral fund set up by Garcetti accepted over $1 million in donations from individuals who belong to alleged CCP influence and intelligence fronts.

“We need an ambassador to India,” Graham told the DCNF.

“As a former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, I know firsthand that this is a critical U.S. diplomatic position,” Hagerty told the DCNF. “Our relations with India are vital to our strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific.”

Cassidy, Collins, Daines, Marshall and Young did not respond immediately to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

Conversely, after the vote, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio told reporters: “I don’t think he’s qualified, especially with all the questions still circling around his previous tenure.”

Shortly after the 2014 founding of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles — a nonprofit which reportedly allowed donors to further Garcetti’s agenda without donating to his political campaign — the organization began accepting funds from Dominic Ng, president and CEO of East West Bank, and Walter Wang, head of JM Eagle, who both have ties to alleged CCP intel front groups, the DCNF recently reported.

Wang donated $200,000 to the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles in 2014 and $1 million in 2020, according to multiple media reports.

Ng, whom Biden appointed to represent the U.S. at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), donated $20,000 to Garcetti’s nonprofit in 2014, according to The Los Angeles Times.

All I know is whenever Biden does ANYTHING, there's something in it for him.