“Basically, what they said is [Hunter Biden] got a job, his dad was vice president. I mean, if that’s a crime, shouldn’t half of your children be in prison?”
The reporter said that? What you have there is a “conflict of interest”, minimum. And that used to be worthy of an investigative reporter’s time. But I guess we don’t have those anymore?
My take: the reporter is half-right. What Hunter Biden did (taking the Burisma-job) is not illegal. Maybe it should be. But, as they say, the real scandal in Washington DC is not what is illegal, but rather what is LEGAL.
OTOH, Burisma certainly thought that they were currying favor with a US administration or they wouldn’t have done it. And if it can be shown that any money moved through Hunter Biden to his father, then laws were broken. That’s bribery and there is a “High Crime”.
I suspect the fantastic wealth that (mostly) Democrat politicians are amassing during their lifetime in office is due to this type of game. Essentially “selling protection” for continued US foreign aid payments.
It all starts with Book Deals and ghost writers. Then it moves to Media consultancies when out of office. Then it moves to elite college admissions for their kids and no-show jobs for their spouses. Maybe a deal with Netflix. So you’re telling me that Burisma’s offer to hire the VP’s son onto their corporate board WOULDN’T be leveraged into a cash-payments stream for the entire Biden family? And that Under-boss Joe wouldn’t have kicked-upstairs to Don Barak?
This isn’t required. It doesn’t matter if their hairdresser benefited from corruption... it’s still corruption.