It Pays to Be Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel has been at the center of nearly every act of Democratic evildoing of the past few decades. He's being rewarded for that behavior with an ambassadorship to Japan.
Former White House chief of staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel in New York City, 2019. (Steven Ferdman / Getty Images)
President Joe Biden’s nomination of Rahm Emanuel for an ambassadorship in Japan raises two questions: What qualifications does the former Chicago mayor have for the job, and what has he been doing since his last stint in government?
The answers suggest his nomination is a payoff for helping Democratic financiers cement business relationships with Japanese officials — and for helping to kill Medicare for All in a way that boosted both Biden’s election chances and Emanuel’s own bank account.
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On the question of relevant qualifications, it seems Emanuel’s most pertinent experience was using his municipal office to help connect Democratic Party donors and corporate lobbyists with Japanese government officials during a junket — one that occurred just before he left office in disgrace amid revelations that his administration buried a video of police murdering a teenager. Emanuel also pushed to privatize and offshore the Chicago water system’s customer service to a Japanese corporation, and touted a business partnership between his city government and Japanese officials.
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