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Biden: ‘Nobody warned me’ about Hunter and Ukraine because Beau was dying
Washington Examiner ^ | | December 07, 2019 07:30 PM | Updated Dec 07, 2019, 09:12 PM | Emily Larsen

Posted on 12/07/2019 11:27:10 PM PST by conservative98

Joe Biden asserted that he never heard worries that his son Hunter Biden's role on a Ukrainian gas company could create a conflict of interest.

"Nobody warned me about a potential conflict of interest," Biden said Friday in an interview with NPR. "I never, never heard that once at all."

Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, while his father was vice president and working on Ukrainian policy. President Trump asked the Ukrainian president this year to investigate the Bidens, prompting Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings against Trump.

George Kent, a top State Department official, testified during impeachment hearings in November that he raised conflict of interest concerns after he learned Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board.

“In February 2015, I raised my concern that Hunter Biden’s status as a board member could create the perception of a conflict of interest,” Kent said. “Let me be clear, I did not witness any effort by any U.S. official to shield Burisma from scrutiny."

Joe Biden told NPR that if Kent raised the issue with his staff, they did not tell him about it likely because his late son Beau Biden was battling cancer.

"Well, my son was dying so I guess that's why he said it, because my son was on his deathbed. But that that's not the reason why — they should have told me," Biden said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alexandervindman; biden; bidenfamily; burisma; creepyjoebiden; creepyunclejoe; dadofadeadbeat; ericciaramella; haveyounodecency; humperjoe; humpherbiden; hunterbiden; joebiden; malarkey; quidprojoe; ukraine
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1 posted on 12/07/2019 11:27:10 PM PST by conservative98
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2 posted on 12/07/2019 11:27:21 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Once again exploiting a family tragedy.


3 posted on 12/07/2019 11:30:11 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: conservative98

Oh, brother. Joe has no shame.


4 posted on 12/07/2019 11:33:20 PM PST by Billthedrill
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And that's the way he goes out. Sniveling, crying and hiding behind his kids.
5 posted on 12/07/2019 11:33:22 PM PST by griffin
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To: conservative98

If someone had to tell him, he’s a damned idiot. Since not even Maxine Waters is that stupid, it means quid pro quo Joe is lying.


6 posted on 12/07/2019 11:33:32 PM PST by politicianslie (Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells-Indictments on the way, Oh what fun it will Be as The SWAMP get Drained!)
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IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!
 
 

7 posted on 12/07/2019 11:34:20 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: conservative98
Joe Biden told NPR that if Kent raised the issue with his staff, they did not tell him about it likely because his late son Beau Biden was battling cancer.

Trump will pick that rationale apart. So would Bernie. So NO communication between staff and a sitting V.P. could take place because "Beau was dying"? This took place for long before and after his death. Ridiculous and weak.

8 posted on 12/07/2019 11:34:39 PM PST by montag813
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Kent is saying he was unaware that Joe withheld the billion in aid for Ukraine unless their Attorney General, investigating Burisma, was fired.

Pretty convenient.


9 posted on 12/07/2019 11:38:33 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Hunter worked for Burisma from 2014-2019. Beau died in 2015. Mafioso Quid Pro Quo Joe must have been living in a bubble the four years after his son’s death.


10 posted on 12/07/2019 11:39:03 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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“Nobody warned me about a potential conflict of interest,” ... “I never, never heard that once at all.”

Bidens been in office plenty long enough to know perfectly well from the beginning there was a conflict of interest without anyone telling him.....and this long before his son was on his deathbed. He’s been so accustomed to gaming the system for personal gain, covering it up, and all that relates to a corrupt politician that like the crimminal he is he believed he was beyond finding out.


11 posted on 12/07/2019 11:40:12 PM PST by caww
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We’ve reached levels of stupid previously thought impossible.


12 posted on 12/07/2019 11:40:42 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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So this clown is admitting that he is too stupid to realize on his own, that there was, at a minimum, an appearance of a conflict of interest. He needs to be told by his staff, what the rest of us can figure out on our own? Either he is lying again, or too stupid and unaware to be anywhere near the White House.
13 posted on 12/07/2019 11:43:41 PM PST by mikefive (RLTW/DOL)
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If nobody told him, then how would he know why?


14 posted on 12/07/2019 11:45:39 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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Has he claimed the classic “no controlling legal authority” defense yet?


15 posted on 12/07/2019 11:46:13 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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LOL!


16 posted on 12/07/2019 11:48:13 PM PST by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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It’s all of us that can’t comprehend. The VP does not have any resources to know what is going on. Joe obviously thinks we are all stupid.


17 posted on 12/07/2019 11:50:22 PM PST by o-n-money (https://www.youtube.com/llwatch?v=4HLGEARa8xk)
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To: conservative98

:-D


18 posted on 12/07/2019 11:50:44 PM PST by nutmeg
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“Nobody warned me that it might have been illegal for Burisma to pay me a bribe through my son!”


19 posted on 12/07/2019 11:51:13 PM PST by TChad
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No, Joe has a Bad Temper, and every member of his staff said off the record, they are afraid to advise him.


That’s the truth, the old codger is mean.


20 posted on 12/07/2019 11:51:17 PM PST by AnthonySoprano
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