Biden: ‘Nobody warned me’ about Hunter and Ukraine because Beau was dying

Washington Examiner ^ | | December 07, 2019 07:30 PM | Updated Dec 07, 2019, 09:12 PM | Emily Larsen

[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.

[Vermont Lt]

The wrong son died.

[bankwalker]

The one that died got Larry Sinclair arrested. That’s how Joe got to be vp.

[Truthoverpower]

The dog ate my homework

[Brown Deer]

No, lying Joe, a drunk driver did NOT kill your wife, but your wife did kill your daughter!

On the afternoon of December 18, 1972, a truck carrying corncobs broadsided the Bidens’ white Chevrolet station wagon returning from a trip to pick the family Christmas tree. It sheared off the left rear wheel and drove the back door into the back seat and pushed the car some 150 feet into a thicket of evergreens. Neilia Biden, 30, and Naomi “Amy” Biden, 13 months, were dead on arrival at the hospital. Joseph “Beau” Biden III, 3, had a slew of broken bones, and Robert Hunter “Hunt” Biden, 2, had head injuries that doctors feared might be permanent.

“Neilia was my very best friend, my greatest ally, my sensuous lover,” he told Kitty Kelley in 1974 for a profile in the Washingtonian. “The longer we lived together the more we enjoyed everything from sex to sports. Most guys don’t really know what I lost because they never knew what I had. … When you lose something like that, you lose a part of yourself that you never get back again.” Kelley counted 35 pictures of her in his office. “Let me show you my favorite picture of her,” Biden offered. His wife in a bikini. “She had the best body of any woman I ever saw,” he said.

In Sept. 2001, he said to a crowd in Delaware, “It was an errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive and hit—a tractor-trailer—hit my children and my wife and killed them.”

Six years later in Iowa, he relayed a similar rendering of the accident. “Let me tell you a little story,” he said to a quiet crowd in Iowa City. “ … a guy who allegedly—and I never pursued it—drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family … ”

The problem was it wasn’t true. The driver of the truck, Curtis C. Dunn of Pennsylvania, was not charged with drunk driving. He wasn’t charged with anything. The accident was an accident, and though the police file no longer exists, coverage in the newspapers at the time made it clear that fault was not in question. For whatever reason, Neilia Biden, who was holding the baby, ended up in the right of way of Dunn’s truck coming down a long hill.

“She had a stop sign. The truck driver did not.”

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Joe Biden's Advisers Knew In 2018 His Comments About Ukraine Would Be A Problem

Recounting a trip to Kyiv in late 2015, Biden described telling the then-president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, that he had to fire the prosecutor general or the US would not release $1 billion in loan guarantees. “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours,’” Biden told the crowd, taking a long look at his watch for effect. “‘If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch.” Here the audience laughed. “He got fired.”

Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, joined the board of the Cyprus-registered Ukrainian gas company Burisma in May 2014. Hunter Biden reportedly made $50,000 a month (much more than that, according to other sources, see the documented timeline below) as a member of Burisma’s board, a position he held until April of this year.

Amos Hochstein, who served as an adviser to Biden and as then-president Barack Obama’s special envoy on global energy, is known to have raised the issue with the vice president.

Hunter Biden’s Ukraine gas firm pressed Obama administration to end corruption allegations, memos show



The Ukraine scandal timeline Democrats and their media allies don’t want America to see

Yes, lying Joe Biden knew, but he points us to his son's death to cover his lies? Was he also sleeping with his son's wife?

[Brown Deer]

Someone please fact check the timeline—-when was Beau “on his deathbed” and when was Hunter on Burisma—I’ll bet the timelines don’t match up.

Beau Biden: 1969-2015

The link to the other documented timeline is in my earlier post above.

[SunkenCiv]

WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System

[SunkenCiv]

Wow, what a slimy liar.

[Fred Nerks]

A perfect lick-spittle for Obama, wasn’t he?

[Chewbarkah]

Notice how this dodges the question of whether Joe KNEW his son was on the Board of Burisma. He’s acting as if someone would NEED TO TELL HIM it was a giant conflict of interest. Anyone with an ounce of sense know without someone having to think for them.

So when did Hunter join the Burisma?
When did Joe Biden learn of this?
When was Beau Biden ill with cancer/when did he pass away?

Using his son’s death like this set a new low bar for sleaze.

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Beau diagnosed 2013. Hunter joins Burisma 2014. Beau dies 2015.

Biden is appealing to the sympathies of voters. I think he was probably detached, checked out, not really caring - not because of his son's illness, but because VPs don't have to do anything or care much about anything. That doesn't work with presidents.

[ETCM]

The wrong son died.

Beau did seem to have it together, and likely had a Senate seat, Governor, or a run at the White House in his future political career. Of course we really have no idea what skeletons were in his closet, because he was a card carrying member of the aristocracy, and the press would have ignored any wrong doing. But yeah, he was the "good son", and Hunter was the "disappointment".

[SunkenCiv]

Both of them are corrupticrat crooks, that's for sure.

[TigersEye]

He has gone from angry denial to making excuses.
Slow Joe just started sliding down his own slippery slope. :)

[TigersEye]

Using his son’s death like this set a new low bar for sleaze.

Not for Joe Biden. He has been doing this for decades.

[Chewbarkah]

The time frame of Beau’s illness begs the question of why Obama would make Biden the lead on Ukraine, knowing he was thus distracted.

[cookcounty]

Malarkey Joe. Or is it Joe Malarkey?

[blueyon]

So now he is using death s an excuse WTH

[NFHale]

Soooo... now he’s using his dead son as an excuse.

This assclown has zero shame.

[Ancesthntr]

Bull f’ing shit! Hunter was on Burisma’s board for 3 years.

[slouper]

You forgot “the dog ate my homework”.