7/16/2023

This is not the type of individual we need representing our country – who thinks he is SPECIAL!

Knewz

‘STUPID’ JOHN KERRY ‘SHOULD BE FIRED’: Calls For Climate Czar to Face the Axe After Dodging Questions about Staff and Private Jet Use

Story by Richard Burkard • 5h ago

John Kerry’s hometown newspaper has called for President Joe Biden to fire him, Knewz.com discovered during the weekend.

In a blistering op-ed published Sunday, July 16, the Boston Herald said the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and former Secretary of State had told “taxpayers to go to hell” by refusing to share the names of the 45 people on his staff.

Presidential Envoy John Kerry. By: MEGA© Knewz

“History will remember that the nation’s first global warming warrior was the least transparent official in the Biden administration. That’s not an enviable distinction,” The Herald said of President Biden’s climate envoy which it labeled as “stupid.”

The demand for his axing came after a defensive Kerry faced a grilling on Thursday, July 13 before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability on Capitol Hill over who works in his heavily-funded government department — its budget was $16.5 million in 2022 —and Kerry’s own use of a private jet.

“I just don’t agree with your facts, which began with the presentation of one of the most outrageously persistent lies that I hear, which is this private jet,” Kerry told Rep. Cory Mills, R-Florida, at the contentious hearing.

Rep. Cory Mills, R-Florida. By: MEGA© Knewz

“We don’t own a private jet. I don’t own a private jet. I personally have never owned a private jet,” Kerry added.

Kerry’s point was carefully worded, however.

According to flight tracking data obtained by Fox News in July 2022, a Gulfstream GIV-SP jet owned by Kerry’s family made a total of 48 trips that lasted more than 60 hours and emitted an estimated 715,886 pounds, or 325 metric tons, of carbon over the course of the Biden administration’s first 18 months.

The plane was registered to Flying Squirrel LLC, a charter company owned by Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry.

John Kerry and wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry. By: MEGA© Knewz

In a separate exchange, Kerry was asked the “names of individuals who actually answer” to him, but he refused to elaborate.

Kerry told Subcommittee Chair Rep. Brian Mast, R-Florida: “I have two deputies, and they are well-known and are very experienced people. Rick Duke and Sue Biniaz.

“Well, I’m not going to go through all the names,” Kerry added when Mast pressed for more. “I’m not going to fill them in here in this way because it would be a violation of our process within the State Department.”

In response to Kerry’s testy congressional hearing, The Herald charged:

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Kerry clearly believes he has one boss — President Biden.

The subcommittee members, at least the Republicans, pried and were even polite. The result was the same. John Kerry will not say who works for the Climate office.

That’s a problem, one of the subcommittee members pointed out. This means those employees are not vetted.

All of this is frustrating. We’ve called on Kerry to respect the law and let the public share in the knowledge that this office is embarking on its mission with a staff everyone can examine and celebrate.

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The newspaper went on to describe Kerry’s “closed-off approach” as “more than embarrassing.

“It’s hurting progress and that’s something Biden should be worried about. Be aloof all you want behind in your private clubs, but when working for the U.S., real Americans take pride in being transparent,” the newspaper said, before concluding: “It’s time for Biden to fire John Kerry and try again before it’s too late.”

President Joe Biden. By: MEGA© Knewz

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We’ve called on Kerry to respect the law and let the public share in the knowledge that this office is embarking on its mission with a staff everyone can examine and celebrate.

Maybe Kerry wants to hog the limelight or control the message. If that’s the case, it’s also poor management. Of all the offices in the government, wouldn’t you want the Climate Office to be open to all suggestions?

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In a separate editorial published by talk show host Howie Carr on Friday, July 14, The Herald declared “the United States dodge(d) a bullet in 2004 when John Forbes Kerry was not elected president.”

“As disastrous as George W. Bush’s second term was, Kerry’s presidency would have been a catastrophe. This isn’t a new revelation, but every time he steps out in public, Kerry just reminds us how lucky we are, or were, since obviously under Biden we have now run out of luck,” said Carr.

Kerry also came under fire for breaking with the commander-in-chief by refusing to refer to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “dictator.”