Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2021 6:01:33 GMT
Kamala Harris’ niece has stopped selling clothing using the vice president's name after flying to the inauguration on a private jet paid for by a Biden donor and writing a children's book about her famous aunt.
Meena Harris, 36, no longer sells her range of t-shirts and swimsuits named after her relative, Politico reports.
Their removal follows a pledge by the Biden administration that the president and vice president's family 'will uphold the highest ethical standards'.
She was told a day after the inauguration to remove them from her site by transition ethics lawyers, Fox New reports.
Meena's name had also previously featured as a collaborator on a t-shirt sold on the Biden campaign store; it was later removed.
A White House official said of that decision: 'For appearance sake, Meena’s name was removed because we didn’t want to make it seem or appear that she would be benefiting or profiting from the campaign.'
A collaboration between Meena and Beats By Dre also featured the slogan 'The First But Not The Last'. The headphones were gifted to influencers. The vice president's team had not been made aware of that venture, Axios reported at the time.
The Stanford and Harvard Law graduate had shared clips from her trip to DC on board the plane to her Instagram stories.
And her new production company with former Obama White House staffer Brad Jenkins also produced an advert for the Supermajority Education Fund the day before the inauguration. It is not known if she was paid for the work, Fox News reports.
In a statement the VP office said: 'The Vice President and her family will uphold the highest ethical standards and it’s the White House’s policy that the Vice President's name should not be used in connection with any commercial activities that could reasonably be understood to imply an endorsement or support.'