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.
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No, but my youngest son is recuperating from colon cancer and chemo treatments. I’m the last one in my family alive. All the rest died of cancer/strokes/and heart attacks. So you don’t need to lecture me about death and dying. I’m very familiar with it.
If Biden is down by 10 going into the Donkey Convention, he just might "withdraw due to health issues".
Hope everything goes well for your son.
when your cokehead, stripper dating son is suddenly rich I guess you assume, it is money from heaven.
He uses dead relatives so much for excuses and props.
so why did you threaten the prosecutor?
Joe Biden is a scatter brained fool never did anything that amounted to much except take bribe money.
If his nose grew like Pinocchio’s he would have tripped over it long ago.
In related news, Hunter Biden said that no one warned him about a conflict of interest in sexing his brother’s wife because his brother Beau was dying. Nah, not buying that either.
Thank you...I appreciate it.
Exactly. This is demonstrable Malarkey.
For the entire 1st year Hunter was on the Burisma BoD, starting in April 2014, Beau’s Cancer was in remission. It wasn’t until May 2015 that Beau’s cancer returned and his illness only lasted about 3 weeks before he passed.
In May 2014, when the press learned about Hunter’s Burisma deal (and Beau was in remission), both the WH Press Secretary and the State Department Spokesperson brushed off questions about the VP’s son and his ties to Ukraine, and numerous newspapers and media outlets reported on the scandal, describing it as nepotism, cronyism, corruption, etc. There is NO POSSIBILITY that Joe was not fully up to speed on this issue.
He was so busy being concerned about Beau, that he went to Ukraine and bullied the POTU into firing the prosecutor investigating Burisma. He was so overcome with grief later, that he bragged on camera about it to the CFR. Nobody told him? He couldn’t figure it out? He had to be told everything? Blondy is also Blindy?
Bidens known all along Hunter is a deadbeat in every sense of the word....the only difference between father and son is Biden has the connections to cover his tracks.
Bidens known all along Hunter is a deadbeat in every sense of the word....the only difference between father and son is Biden has the connections to cover his tracks.
And Joe must have been so distraught in the years after the death of his first wife and daughter in that car crash, that he deliberately went around, and continually denigrated the truck driver by claiming he “drank his lunch”, when in reality, he knew the Judge had determined no alcohol was involved, and that the police found that Mrs. Biden may have drifted into the path of the truck, having missed seeing it because her head may have been turned. I’ve read she had the stop sign...the truck driver didn’t. And he was so distraught over the accident that he started dating his next wife less than two years after his wife and daughter died. Jill was a senior in college, and married. She divorced her then husband in 1976 so she and Joe could be married in 1977.
Hunter got Biden Bribe money from 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.
Woah!
‘They’ should have told you what, Joe?
I thought you said Hunter has done nothing wrong!
Are you now admitting that, yes, he did do something
low down, crooked and stupid?
Despicable but true. This guy is a jerk. I suppose he will soon blame touching the kids because he misses Beau. This BEAU my mind. I know it Beau Biden’s mind too.
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