If that is the interview that Shawn excerpted on his show yesterday, Hunter sounded like he was nervous and dishonest. Although there was one place where he actually admitted that he got his positions because of his name, then backtracked by trying to claim that it is difficult to hide being the VP’s son.
I’m trying to think of other circumstances where children of powerful politicians use their names to get cushy positions. The only other I can think of is Chelsea Clinton, when she got that high paying gig at NBC (?) just after graduating from college.
Do these children of politicians have any clue that real people have to work hard and build up a lot of experience to get the kind of job that they are simply given on the basis of who their parents are? And if they do have a clue, do they have no sense of pride that would cause them to refuse these quid-pro-quo appointments and say they would rather work their way up like ordinary people do?
It ain't me
It ain't me
I ain't no Senator's son.
If only it was their names that got them these payoffs.
In reality, it is from laundering much bigger amounts of money from the US Treasury, divulging US secrets, or selling US policy decisions, at the cost of American workers and taxpayers, that they get these payoffs.
Not even pennies on the dollar, they typically squander at least in the thousands for every dollar they are bribed. They are desperate to sell their offices, and the corrupters know that they only need to pay tiny percentages.
But they won’t pay just for a name - there has to be some tangible value on the table, before they start handing over hard cash, for Hunter to waste on drugs and hookers.