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Biden sidesteps questions about son's foreign work
ABC News ^ | 6/20/2019 | Tom Llamas, Lucien Bruggeman, Matthew Mosk

Posted on 10/01/2019 5:31:13 PM PDT by dalight

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declined to answer questions on the campaign trail this week about his son's overseas business dealings in countries where the then-vice president was conducting diplomatic work, an issue his political opponents have already begun to wield against him as he wades into the 2020 presidential campaign.

More than once, after his father engaged in diplomacy on behalf of the United States in foreign countries, Hunter Biden conducted business in the same country. At two separate campaign stops on Monday, Biden avoided questions about his son while his staff blocked reporters from approaching the candidate.

Biden's campaign did provide ABC News with a statement saying the former vice president has always adhered to "well-established executive branch ethics standards," adding that if Biden wins the White House he will issue an executive order to "address conflicts of interest of any kind."

"This process will be set out in detail in the executive order," the statement reads, "that President Biden would issue on his first day in office."

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; corruption; defensive; guilty; hunterbiden; impeachment; joebiden; somethingtohide; toast; ukraine
(Originally posted by Libloather on 6/23/2019) - But this ABC News report should be run as a Campaign ad. And, it is way more significant today then when it was posted originally.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3758976/posts

1 posted on 10/01/2019 5:31:14 PM PDT by dalight
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To: dalight

ABC News should be impeached for even asking these questions.


2 posted on 10/01/2019 5:35:12 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: dalight; Libloather
Let's ping him. Well, son of a gun, here's Biden's words yet again! Thanks, Joe, for admitting it. Really. We thank you.






3 posted on 10/01/2019 5:35:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: dalight

LOL at Biden saying “Well Okie Dokie if I become President I promise not to be a lying cheating sleaze bag anymore”


4 posted on 10/01/2019 5:36:01 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: dalight

Biden is essentially finished.
That leaves the communists with Lieawatha and MadBernie. Neither one of those azzclowns are viable.
They’ll have to bring in PIAPS or Big Mike.
Regardless who they bring in, they’re gonna lose bigly and they know it.


5 posted on 10/01/2019 5:36:40 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: 2banana

Yea.. but look at the DATE.. This is in the month before Trump’s phone call. Why are they doing this? Perhaps its to prompt Trump to respond so this “Whistleblower” can “toot.” It’s clear that the effort to craft this complaint went on months before it was actually made.. how to make this happen without driving the topic back into the news?


6 posted on 10/01/2019 5:41:39 PM PDT by dalight
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To: dalight

If Biden has nothing to hide, why doesn’t he simply answer the questions?
We all know the reason.


7 posted on 10/01/2019 5:44:18 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: 2banana

If it hasn’t been obvious before, it is now. That children’s song about the bus is certainly appropriate here.

The Biden under the bus goes
Thump,Thump,Thump


8 posted on 10/01/2019 5:52:35 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: All

“My son has expertise of value to many around the world. He is skilled in depositing money and letting me and Barack know how much and where it is. This helps our friends around the world to engage in valuable commerce. Such as funding the Clinton Foundation which might toss them a bone later.”


9 posted on 10/01/2019 5:52:35 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Take the next train to Marxville and I'll meet you at the camp)
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To: SaveFerris
Well, son of a gun, here's Biden's words yet again!

Here is the full video and a transcription of that interview.

Biden's gloating description of how he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees unless the prosecutor was fired runs from about 52:10 to 53:10.

https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden

10 posted on 10/01/2019 5:55:24 PM PDT by TChad
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When your staff has to block reporters from asking uncomfortable questions,

your campaign is over.


11 posted on 10/01/2019 5:55:58 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: dalight

Not a bad report, considering it’s ABC, however, there was no mention of Joe Biden forcing the Ukrainian President to fire the prosecutor investing his son’s company.


12 posted on 10/01/2019 6:03:22 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: GreenHornet

Another dot was connected today on Martha McCallum’s show on Fox by one of her guest’s who has investigated the political corruption in the Ukraine for many years. What he revealed was that there was also a quid pro quo involved in getting Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma in the first place. The oligarch that owned Burisma had been sanctioned under the Magnitsky act and was blocked from travelling to the US which is a very significant advantage to foreign business people. After Hunter was put on the board the oligarch was magically removed from the sanction list and granted full travel privileges. This was approved at the highest levels of the US government and almost certainly involved Obama’s authorization.


13 posted on 10/01/2019 6:23:08 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: dalight

ABC a well known conspiracy theory news site.


14 posted on 10/01/2019 6:31:27 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: dalight

Let us all remember that, at 50,000 per month, Hunter Biden was making more than a presidential salary.


15 posted on 10/01/2019 6:32:15 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Wake me when a prominent democrat actually gets prosecuted. ))))
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To: Dave Wright
This was approved at the highest levels of the US government and almost certainly involved Obama’s authorization

Wow, imagine that ... all the 2016 connections lead back to Obama ...

no wonder the Leftist-Media Complex is so hot & bothered about this whole Ukraine fiasco


16 posted on 10/01/2019 6:36:59 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: tennmountainman

Because per Biden you have to ask the right questions!


17 posted on 10/01/2019 7:16:50 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: dalight

Corrupt company hounded by prosecutor reaches out to Biden with bribe offer. Biden agrees to deal , gets money through son. America loses a billion dollars and Ukraine stays corrupt. Just another day in the swamp.


18 posted on 10/01/2019 7:18:44 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Dave Wright

Interesting.


19 posted on 10/01/2019 7:55:47 PM PDT by TChad
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To: TChad

Thanks. This looks like a pretty serious crime to me.

Trading one billion American tax-dollars to a foreign entity for a bribe, demanding basically a personal favor in return.


20 posted on 10/01/2019 8:20:06 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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