Posted on 09/25/2019 6:41:43 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Joe Biden's family ties to an influence peddling scheme at a Ukrainian gas company could hurt the former vice president's 2020 campaign, political scientist Ian Bremmer told CNN on Tuesday.
"[Joe] Biden does have a problem here. I have to say $50,000 a month for Hunter Biden—clearly to be selling influence because otherwise, no one would ever pay him that kind of money—for a company that, frankly, was pretty corrupt and has been before and has been since under investigation," Bremmer said.
Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group and Time magazine editor at large. He told CNN's New Day Hunter Biden was named to the board of Burisma, Ukraine's largest private gas company, for his ability to sell influence during the Obama administration.
Hunter Biden is the son of 2020 Democratic primary frontrunner Joe Biden. Bremmer said the former vice president was likely aware of his son's ties to the company and its ongoing corruption woes.
"It's hard to imagine Joe Biden wasn't aware of it," Bremmer said. "I expect that President Obama, if he had known about the reality of the situation, would've probably told Biden ‘get rid of this, we shouldn't have your son working in this situation.' That would have cost him something. I fear even if maybe Biden wasn't aware but Biden should've been aware that that would cause an issue for him."
Democratic lawmakers are pushing to impeach President Trump amid a whistleblower complaint related to a conversation with a foreign official about Hunter Biden's connection to Ukraine. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) plans to bring the Ukraine discussion to the House floor on Wednesday.
LunchPailAmtrakEveryday Joe should have just faded into the sunset with his millions but I’m glad he didn’t, he’s created more exposure of the corrupt swamp than is manageable and now his own party will want him out lest their own sordid corruption be exposed.
Wonder if Biden even feels the wooden daggers his fellow leftists are sticking in his back. He has the stench of a dead man walking.
Both soetoro and Creepy Uncle Joe couldn’t help but know and approve.
My theory is Biden decided to run for president as a shield against this investigation. The “whistleblower” blew the lid off this in another example of the Trump curse.
It will be really interesting if the “whistleblower” turns out to be a Biden supporter. Whoever this person is Biden will be destroyed by this episode.
I wonder, was Obama’s deep state really going after Biden in all this Ukraine hoopla? I think Obama’s real preferred candidate is Warren.
This from Time?!? Wow.
Rudy G stated on Laura Ingraham China paid Hunter/Joe $1.5 BILLION.
That’s gotta hurt hussein44...if the world wasn’t turned upside down.
Any company, foreign or domestic, in the energy sector or elsewhere, can pay me $50,000.00 a month and I can guarantee that I will not cause a corruption scandal. I’ll be quiet as a church mouse.
“Joe Biden’s family ties to an influence peddling scheme at a Ukrainian gas company could hurt the former vice president’s 2020 campaign” Nah. It will only hurt PDJT because he dared broach the subject. Yeah, I know. Friggin’ bizzaro world.
Burisma was paying for influence, and they got their money’s worth when Joe bigfooted the investigation.
and CNN allowed that to air??? Remarkable!!
Do we have a fake whistle-blower. That guy/gal must be exposed and prosecuted for lying to get whistle-blower status and protection. He/she is a fraud and must come before the bar of justice. The whistle-blower law must be protected for the genuine ones.
What planet is this dude from?
If the ‘whistleblower’ doesn’t have first-hand knowledge or any other evidence, then he/she isn’t a whistleblower and doesn’t have any protection ultimately.
The wagons are being drawn in to start a circle to protect Zero. This might be a signal of the beginning of the end for Biden.
REPUBLICAN WIT: Sen. Kennedy Asks ‘Do You Think Ukraine Got Hunter Biden’s Name Off ZipRecruiter?’
freebeacon ^ | SEPTEMBER 24, 2019 | Paul Crookston / FR Posted on 9/25/2019, 8:38:51 AM by MarvinStinson
Sen. John N. Kennedy (R., La.) offered an alternate explanation for Hunter Biden’s $50K per month appointment to the board of Ukraine’s largest gas company while his father served as vice president. When MSNBC host Chuck Todd said there was no evidence of impropriety in the arrangement, Kennedy said he didn’t believe the company found the vice president’s son using the job search website, ZipRecruiter.
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We live in a country where our leader asked for assistance from a foreign leader in fighting corruption in our country
.......now he is being accused of a crime .....AND looking at impeachment....for doing so. THAT is where we are today.
HERE’S A JOB FOR THE WHISTLEBLOWER (cackle)
<><> Hunter Biden became a lobbyist in 2001, co-founding the firm of Oldaker, Biden & Belair.
<><> According to Adam Entous, in New Yorker mag, Biden and dad had an agreement: Biden wouldn’t ask Hunter about his lobbying clients, and Hunter wouldn’t tell his father about them. (cackle)
<><> In 2006, Biden and his uncle, James Biden, attempted to buy Paradigm, a hedge-fund group, but the deal fell apart before completion.
SOURCE: thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- room/news/378629-breitbart-editor-biden-and-kerrys-sons-inked-deal-with-chinese
BY JOHN BOWDEN - 03/15/18
Breitbart editor: Biden’s son inked deal with Chinese government days after vice president’s trip
A private equity firm managed by the son of former Vice President Joe Biden struck a deal with China’s state-owned bank in 2013 at the same time that Biden was in the country to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Hunter Biden, who arrived in China aboard Air Force Two alongside the vice president and the rest of the U.S. delegation, was at the time in control of Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC., a private equity firm that would go on to strike a deal with the state-owned Bank of China to create a $1 billion joint investment fund.
In excerpts from his upcoming book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Peter Schweizer writes that the China deal was part of a trend of high-stakes deals between the sons’ investment firm — under the Rosemont entities umbrella — and foreign governments that were also in the middle of striking deals with the Obama administration.
Hunter Biden controlled the Rosemont entities, which describes itself as “a $2.4 billion private equity firm.”
In 2011, Hunter Biden met with top Chinese government fund leaders alongside managing partner Devon Archer and James Bulger, the nephew of notorious mobster Whitey Bulger, who controls a Massachusetts-based consultancy firm. The meeting took place just hours before the vice president would meet with Hu Jintao, then China’s president, in Washington as part of a nuclear security summit. A second meeting that year between Hunter Biden and other top Chinese officials would occur in Taiwan, just two weeks after the vice president opened up strategic talks with China in Washington.
In 2013, the younger Biden would be part of an official U.S. delegation to the country. Ten days later, Rosemont entities inked a $1 billion deal with the bank of China. The deal was eventually increased to $1.5 billion. Deals made by the firm — co-owned by the government of China and the two sons of top American officials — would go on to have serious national security implications for the United States. One such deal was with the automotive subsidiary of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), a major Chinese military contractor accused of frequently stealing U.S. military technology.
In late 2015, AVIC would go on to purchase 51 percent of American precision-parts manufacturer Henniges. Joe Biden’s son bought the other 49 percent in a deal that was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which includes members of numerous government agencies including the State Department.
In an email, a spokesman for Chris Heinz, John Kerry’s son by marriage, told The Hill that Heinz had “no operating role” in Rosemont Seneca, and was not involved in any of the firm’s dealings in China — contradicting Schweizer’s original reports. “Rosemont Capital is not, and never was, a part of the Heinz Family Office and was a fully independent alternative investment fund manager,” said Heinz spokesman Chris Bastardi.
“Chris Heinz was involved in Rosemont Capital. Rosemont Seneca was established under the same GP as Rosemont Capital, but Chris Heinz had no operating role in it. Chris and his family have no financial interest or investment in Bohai Harvest RST, he has never traveled to China, and he has never met with the firm’s Chinese management team or investors.”
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