Oh brother. Here comes a Republican senator with a truly laughable attempt at currying favor with Donald Trump over Ukraine. Louisiana’s John Kennedy is proposing a bill to ban family members of government officials from doing business in Ukraine—just his little effort to redirect the story away from Trump’s egregious abuse of office and over to the Biden family.
Kennedy’s legislation would prohibit parents, children, or siblings of the president, vice president, as well as members of the Cabinet, House, and Senate, from working for or owning more than 5% of “any entity doing business in or with Ukraine.” Did he do full due diligence on which members of the Trump family that might apply to?
Sen. Chris Murphy took the proposal as seriously as it deserves—and suggested a great way to expand it:
I mean, come on. Did no one on Kennedy’s staff stop to think how this obvious messaging bill might possibly be turned on its head?