Vanita Gupa backs $15 "Livable Wage" but not for her family business: she pays $1.30 an hour

It's the old demand to "do what I say, not what I do." That's the Vanita Gupta way of doing things or demanding things be done.

President Biden's nominee for a top DOJ slot has long advocated for a $15 per hour federal minimum wage. For some reason, we should not be surprised to learn that she owns about a million dollars in stock in a company chaired by her father, Raj Gupta, that it pays its Mexican workers as little as $1.30 an hour for their labor.

Gupta's net worth is between $42 and $187 million, making her Sleepy Joe's richest nominee. She owns no less than $500,000 in Aptiv PLC, an international auto parts maker. According to active jobs listings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, the company pays a portion of its workers a disgraceful $1.30 an hour.

One job posted on Indeed.com, for example, offers a line operator role at one of their plants in Zacatecas that pays the U.S. dollar equivalent of $260 A MONTH! for a 50-hour per week job. 

If the plant was located in Manhattan, NY, that would just about cover the carfare getting to work. Hardly a livable wage. But on social media and in her nonprofit work, Gupta has incessantly expressed support for the $15 minimum wage and a "livable wage."

Now that Gupta's confirmation process is underway, she is facing greater scrutiny and things are bubbling up to the surface like unexpected bubbles in the bathwater.

Hopefully Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVA) will reconsider his support for this hypocrite, but don't count on it.

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Biden nominee owns millions in company accused of fueling Mexican drug cartels

"Just put your lips together and blow"

Vanita Gupta, the Biden nominee for associate attorney general, who has called for the decriminalization of all drugs (although she denies it now because she has evolved), owns tens of millions of dollars in a company accused of fueling the Mexican drug cartels and heroin production.

“According to an August 2020 Bloomberg report, American company Avantor sold acetic anhydride to cartels that used it to make high-grade ‘china white’ heroin and methamphetamine,” Fox Business reported. She is a breaking bad babe if there ever was one.

“Biden’s pick for associate attorney general, Vanita Gupta, owns between $11 million and $55 million in the company’s stock, according to her financial disclosure form as reported by ABC News.” 

That a lot of smack and pookie.

Following Bloomberg News’s report, Avantor apparently woke up and stopped all sales of the product in Mexico. It's almost as if they had no idea what that stuff was used to manufacture. 

“Due to the potential for misuse of acetic anhydride outside of the regulated supply chain, the company has recently chosen to stop all sales of the product in Mexico,” Avantor said. “We have properly discarded all inventory of acetic anhydride in Mexico.” 

Now nobody is saying that Avantor knew they were selling this stuff to the cartels and said that all the sales of the product are entities registered with Mexico's health regulator/

Interestingly, Raj Gupta, VANITA'S FATHER, is the CHAIRMAN OF AVANTOR! 

And nobody is saying that Raj knew what was happening in the company in which he ran. 

Vanita Gupta has previously expressed support for decriminalizing “all drugs” in small amounts, a position that she claims she now no longer supports because of things she experienced in her personal life. [The video below is worth your time to hear Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) destroy her at the confirmation hearing.]

When she was the ACLU deputy director in 2912, Gupta wrote that “states should decriminalize simple possession of all drugs, particularly marijuana, and for small amounts of other drugs.”

Watch Cotton discuss this with her and also watch him catch her in the Democrats' own trap over racism.

Sen. Cotton has focused his attention on trying to derail Gupta’s confirmation to the Department of Justice, where she would serve as the No. 3 official in the department.

“Vanita Gupta, President Biden’s nominee for Associate Attorney General, would make America less safe. She must be stopped,” Cotton posted on Twitter. “More than 83k Americans died from drug overdoses last year, but Gupta wants to ‘decriminalize’ possession of ALL drugs, even fentanyl. Opioids are already ravaging our communities—we shouldn’t give fentanyl, heroin, or cocaine dealers get-out-of-jail-free cards.”

“As recently as last summer, Vanita Gupta called to defund the police,” the Arkansas senator continued. “Her allies in the jailbreak industry—who are clamoring for access to the Biden DOJ—are now trying to deny what she said. But see for yourself where Vanita Gupta stands on defunding the police.”

In a Washington Post fact-check on claims Gupta made during her Senate confirmation hearing, the paper awarded her an Upside-Down Pinocchio for multiple flip-flops. In addition to claiming she no longer supports legalizing “all drugs,” the Post notes:

Gupta also claimed to have no view on qualified immunity, despite having pushed lawmakers to end it only months ago, when she described it as an abomination.

She reversed herself on defunding the police. In July, Gupta testified before the same Senate committee that state and local governments should “decrease police budgets and the scope, role, and responsibility of police in our lives” and shift resources “toward investments in economic opportunity, education, health care, and other public benefits.”


The Biden team says it was another issue she did not really believe in; she was merely communicating the consensus views of her coalition. Well, what did she believe in then? What does she believe in now? And how are observers supposed to tell the difference? For this tango of previously unacknowledged flip-flops, Gupta earns an Upside-Down Pinocchio.

Gupta, like most politicians, will do anything and say anything to get elected or appointed, in her case. That's exactly what Biden did as a make-believe moderate who now shows us he's a wild far-leftist with a lunatic agenda.

The wounds the left is going to impart on the nation are going to leave a mark.

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Biden's DOJ nominee supports ditching the police

"No justice, no police." That seems to be the cry from some on the Lunatic Left.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) warned in a statement Thursday night that Vanita Gupta would make the country less safe for citizens and more safe for criminals based on her far-left policy of defunding the police.

“Vanita Gupta, President Biden’s nominee for Associate Attorney General, would make America less safe. She must be stopped,” Cotton tweeted on social media. “More than 83k Americans died from drug overdoses last year, but Gupta wants to ‘decriminalize’ possession of ALL drugs, even fentanyl. Opioids are already ravaging our communities—we shouldn’t give fentanyl, heroin, or cocaine dealers get-out-of-jail-free cards.”

“As recently as last summer, Vanita Gupta called to defund the police,” Cotton continued. “Her allies in the jailbreak industry—who are clamoring for access to the Biden DOJ—are now trying to deny what she said. But see for yourself where Vanita Gupta stands on defunding the police.”

Sen. Cotton included a statement that Gupta made to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary last summer. Her statements were made concurrent to the Antifa and BLM riots that were perpetrated across the country in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, who likely died of a drug overdose while being arrested for a different crime.

Gupta said:

While front-end systems changes are important, it is also critical for state and local leaders to heed calls from Black Lives Matter and Movement for Black Lives activists to decrease police budgets and the scope, role, and responsibility of police in our lives. [My emphasis.]

As recently as last summer, Vanita Gupta called to defund the police. Her allies in the jailbreak industry—who are clamoring for access to the Biden DOJ—are now trying to deny what she said.

But see for yourself where Vanita Gupta stands on defunding the police: pic.twitter.com/juU9zf08ws

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 5, 2021

Cotton continued:

“No wonder Soros prosecutors like Chesa Boudin in San Francisco have endorsed Gupta. Gupta would promote their pro-crime agenda. Soros prosecutors caused a massive spike in crime in major cities across the country by refusing to prosecute criminals. Why would we trust their judgment for the Department of Justice? The Senate should be suspicious of anyone they endorse.”

The senator concluded by encouraging Biden to withdraw Gupta's nomination and select someone who would "uphold the law."

The Washington Free Beacon pointed out that there are potential conflicts of interest with Gupta’s nomination to a top DOJ spot, which she withheld from the U.S. Senate.

“Her father is Rajiv L. Gupta, a chemicals magnate turned Wall Street adviser and board member for Fortune 500 companies,” the report said. “Gupta made no mention of her father’s sprawling corporate network on a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire that asked her to identify prospective conflicts, despite the fact that the Justice Department has repeatedly sparred with her father’s businesses in recent years.”

Legal Newsline this week reported that Attorneys General from five states are urging Biden to withdraw Gupta's nomination for associate AG, which is the number three position at the DOJ.

“Ms. Gupta’s past comments and track record have demonstrated her disinterest in meaningful police reform in favor of destructive policies that would defund the police,” the AGs from Indiana, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas wrote in a March 1 letter to the president. “ Her nomination will further divide our nation instead of implementing policies to protect our communities and support law enforcement.”

The letter said that while some of Gupta’s backers claim she supports police, past comments show that she actually supports defunding the police.

“In fact, she wants to get away from a ‘policing approach’ and has urged Congress to ‘redirect government dollars away from policing practices rooted in the criminal-legal system,’ the AGs wrote. “Calling on Congress to shift resources from police to other priorities is a call for defunding the police, and that is not something Americans support. This is a time when our local law enforcement agencies need additional resources, not fewer.”

The Federalist reported that in September Gupta’s interest group, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, urged Congress to “redirect government dollars away from policing practices rooted in the criminal-legal system and carceral state and toward practices that reflect a vision of public safety that promotes community health and rebuilds trust.”

Yes, one can safely say that "redirecting" government money away from "policing practices" is the same thing as defunding the police. If you remove my wallet from my back pocket and redirect my money from it, you've defunded me, even if you used that money to buy something for your momma.

In March 2019, Gupta's organization published a 416-page report calling to remove police in all schools, and advocated for “community policing” over “real” policing measures carried out by trained law enforcement.

“Police officers should have no role in student disciplinary matters,” the report posits. “Even leaders who express a commitment to community policing sometimes view it as separate and distinct from ‘real’ law enforcement. Some delegate the task of cultivating community relationships to a handful of officers and assign others to patrolling streets and responding to calls.”

Of course, it all becomes "real" law enforcement the moment the law is broken and violence begins.

While I don't know this as fact and I'm just spitballing, I suspect Gupta's two sons, if they are of school-age, attend private schools with good security. If you know this as fact, or that I'm mistaken, please feel free to comment.

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