The new White House under President Joe Biden has instructed Meena Harris, the niece of Vice-President Kamala Harris, to stop using her aunt’s name to promote her brands.
In a report published in the New York Post, White House lawyers have made it very clear to Meena Harris to stop using her aunt to promote her personal business ventures.
As per the report, the Vice President’s aides are becoming increasingly concerned over the ethics of Meena’s promotions. “Some things can’t be undone…That being said: Behaviour needs to change”, a White House official has been quoted as saying.
According to the LA Times, White House ethics lawyers “told Meena that she could no longer produce clothing or write new books with her aunt’s name or likeness.”
This instruction will now hurt Meena’s business ambitions and she is yet to clarify whether she is collecting royalties over her book named “Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea” which contains the VP’s name and likeness on the front cover.
Under the ethics rule, Meena is not allowed to have profit in the name of her aunt.
Meena Harris has taken full advantage of her relationship and even launched sweatshirts with her aunt’s quotes like “I’m Speaking” which have sold like hot cakes.
Even after Meena Harris was warned by the White House lawyers, she flew to the Biden-Harris inauguration on a private jet along with a Biden donor and posted about it on Instagram.
But what is now bothering the new Biden administration even more are her comments on the farmer protests.
In a tweet Meena Harris said she was “outraged” by “paramilitary violence against farmer protesters” in New Delhi, when in fact it was the protesters who had unleashed violence in Delhi, attacking security personnel with swords, stabbing cops and trying to run them over with their tractors.
The US Vice President’s niece, when faced with a barrage of criticism, called her detractors a “mob of angry misogynists” and continued her rant against India in subsequent tweets as the Joe Biden administration took a more measured view of the issue and even welcomed moves aimed at “improving the efficiency of Indian markets” and attracting “greater private sector investment” in agriculture.
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