At some point, one has to assume that this scandal touches Obama directly. It is already safe to say that it touches him indirectly because this is HIS VP who used 1 billion dollars of my kids money/future to perfect a bribery scheme.
How would Obama not know about this and if he did, why would he acquiesce to it while he was in office?
A legacy is a funny thing and as the glow fades the history books are going to reflect corruption within his administration. I don’t think Obama took a dime because he was promised tens of millions upon leaving the WH (book deals and Netflix) and he could assume board positions and other no-show work immediately that would give him millions more. However, IF he knew what Biden was doing (how could he not?) he is complicit.
Just my .02. Obama is going to push Biden out because the longer this scandal continues and grows the worse it makes him look. Obama also knows that Biden is going to wreck the democrat party and if that happens it increases the likelihood that his minions, still entrenched in the bureaucracy, will be removed.
Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall?
At the same time his VP was peddling influence and money laundering, his secretary of state was running the same (although more sophisticated) kind of operation out of the State Department (Clinton Foundation).
Obama had to have known.
My theory is Obama chose Biden precisely because he is so corrupt. Obama wanted in on the game and needed someone who knew who was in on the grift to control them.