Frank wrote on Oct 12
th, 2019 at 10:39am:
Biden’s son, Hunter, has had a pretty troubled life with drugs and booze and relationship problems. He was thrown out of the navy reserve for testing positive to cocaine. He has also ruthlessly used his father’s name and connections to forge a profitable business career.
Just after Joe Biden was given responsibility for leading policy in the Obama administration on Ukraine, Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, founded by an ex-communist oligarch and much accused of corruption. Hunter Biden had no experience or expertise in gas or in Ukraine. He was paid $US50,000 a month for his board position and allegedly had other lucrative transactions with the company.
Is there a single person on God’s green earth who thinks Hunter Biden got that lucrative appointment for any reason other than that he was Joe Biden’s son?
On another occasion, Hunter Biden flew with his dad on Air Force Two to China, when Biden Sr was making an official visit as vice-president. Hunter arranged a photo op for his Chinese business partner with his dad, the veep. One of Hunter’s projects was raising an investment fund with Chinese backing. Amazingly, the son of the serving vice-president, having travelled to China on Air Force Two and introduced his partners to Dad, was successful in securing substantial Chinese backing for the fund. Even newspapers sympathetic to the Bidens say the sums raised were substantial. Some put them at $US1.5bn.
On yet another occasion, Hunter Biden received a diamond as a personal gift from a Chinese business associate. We don’t know its value because, Biden Jr says, he gave it away.
None of this, on its face, is illegal. But does anyone think this was the right way for the Biden family to behave?https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/even-embattled-trump-able-to-land-big-... Yes, dear boy, Mr Trump:
Quote:"I don't know those gentlemen. Now it's possible I have a picture with them because I have a picture with everybody, I have a picture with everybody here," Trump said, adding that someone told him there "may be" a photo with them "at a fundraiser or somewhere, but I have pictures with everybody."
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/10/10/politics/donald-trump-lev-parnas-igor-fruma...And the State Department:
Quote:On May 13, 2014, after Hunter’s role on the Burisma board was reported in the news, Jen Psaki, a State Department spokesperson, said that the State Department was not concerned about perceived conflicts of interest, because Hunter was a “private citizen.”
And Burisma:
Quote:Hunter told Burisma’s management and other board members that he would not be involved in any matters that were connected to the U.S. government or to his father. Kwaśniewski told me, “We never discussed how the Vice-President can help us. Frankly speaking, we didn’t need such help.”
But not Hunter:
Quote:Hunter declined Burisma’s offer to serve another term on the board, believing that the controversy had become a distraction. But he said that he was proud of his work there, and that he thought the criticism was misplaced. “I feel the decisions that I made were the right decisions for my family and for me,” he told me. “Was it worth it? Was it worth the pain? No. It certainly wasn’t worth the grief.” He went on, “I would never have been able to predict that Donald Trump would have picked me out as the tip of the spear against the one person they believe can beat them.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-f...But let's stop virtue signalling and get down to the facts, shall we?
How did Biden profit?