Dianne Feinstein's Daughter Says the Aged Senator is a Victim of "Elder Abuse"

She's not alleging Dianne Feinstein's aides-slash-nurses-slash-puppeteers are guilty of the elder abuse. Instead, she claims that the trustees to Feinstein's estate have subjected her to elder abuse.

But if an elderly person can be subjected to elder abuse by one set of people with interests in exploiting her, obviously she can also be so abused by another set of people. It's a statement that an elderly person is no longer capable of handling business by herself.

The daughter of 90-year-old Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein alleged her mother is a victim of elder abuse in a lawsuit filed against trustees of her late husband's estate.

Feinstein and her daughter, Katherine, accused co-trustees Michael Klein and Marc Scholvinck of engaging in elder and financial abuse, in addition to a breach of trust, Reuters reported Wednesday. Katherine filed the lawsuit Aug. 8 in the California Superior Court in the County of San Francisco.

The lawsuit alleges the trustees "wrongfully" withheld distributions from her late husband's trust that should have gone toward her trust fund, the outlet reported. Feinstein's late husband, Richard Blum, died in early 2022 after 42 years of marriage.

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The elderly senator missed a total of 91 votes on the Senate floor related to confirming President Joe Biden's judicial nominees, leading Senate Democrats to try and temporarily replace her. Upon her return, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee approved six Biden nominees, three of whom passed on a party-line vote, CNN reported Thursday. The votes had been put on hold while Feinstein was absent from D.C.

Feinstein visibly trembled and appeared confused as staffers wheeled her into the Senate chamber May 11. She reportedly asked "where am I going?"

I'm sure the victim of elder abuse is capable of thinking through trillion dollar budgets, though.

And if not -- oh well, she'll just go with the Democrat Default of spending trillions of dollars we don't have and now never will have.

posted by Ace at 03:49 PM

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