Posted on 10/20/2020 7:56:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
While most of the attention on Hunter Biden has focused on his dealings in Ukraine and China when his father was in the White House, he also cashed in on cushy jobs and sweetheart deals throughout his dads long Senate career.
Hunter Biden profited from his fathers political connections long before he struck questionable deals in countries where Joe Biden was undertaking diplomatic missions as vice president. In fact, virtually all the jobs listed on his resume going back to his first position out of college, which paid a six-figure salary, came courtesy of the former six-term senators donors, lobbyists, and allies, a RealClearInvestigations examination has found.
One document reviewed by RCI reveals that a Biden associate admitted finding employment for Hunter Biden specifically as a special favor to his father, then a Senate leader running for president. He secured a $1.2 million gig on Wall Street for his young son, even though it was understood he had no experience in high finance. Many of his generous patrons, in turn, ended up with legislation and policies favorable to their businesses or investments, an RCI review of lobbying records and legislative actions taken by the elder Biden confirms.
That the 50-year-old Hunter has been trading on his Democratic fathers political influence his entire adult life raises legal questions about possible influence-peddling, government watchdogs and former federal investigators say. In addition, the more than two-decades-long pattern of nepotism casts fresh doubt on Joe Bidens recent statements that he never discussed” business with his son, and that his activities posed “no conflicts of interest.”
No fewer than three committees in the Republican-controlled Senate have opened probes into potential Biden family conflicts. Investigators are also poring over Treasury Department records that have flagged suspicious activities involving Hunter’s banking transactions and business deals that may be connected to his fathers political influence.
U.S. ethics rules require all government officials to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest in taking official actions. The Bidens have denied any wrongdoing.
While most of the attention on Hunter has focused on his dealings in Ukraine and China when his father was in the White House, he also cashed in on cushy jobs and sweetheart deals throughout his dads long Senate career, records reveal.
“Hunter Biden’s Ukraine-China connections are just one element of the Biden corruption story, said Tom Fitton, president of the Washington-based watchdog group Judicial Watch, who contends Biden used both the Office of the Vice President and the Senate to advance his sons personal interests.
In each case, Hunter Biden appeared under-qualified for the positions he obtained. All the while, he was a chronic abuser of alcohol and drugs, including crack cocaine, and has cycled in and out of no fewer than six drug-rehab treatment programs, according to published reports. He’s also been the subject of at least two drug-related investigations by police, one in 1988 and another in 2016, according to federal records and reports. A third drug investigation resulted in his discharge from the U.S. Navy Reserve in 2014.
This comprehensive account of Hunter Bidens unique career trajectory, as one former family friend gently put it, was pieced together through interviews with more than a dozen people, several of whom insisted on anonymity to describe private conversations, and after an in-depth examination of public records, including Securities and Exchange Commission filings, court papers, campaign filings, federal lobbying disclosures, and congressional documents.
Hunter Biden’s resume begins 24 years ago. Here is a rundown of the plum positions he has managed to land since 1996, thanks to his politically connected father and his boosters:
Fresh out of college, credit-card giant MBNA put him on its payroll as “senior vice president” earning more than $100,000 a year, plus an undisclosed signing bonus. Delaware-based MBNA at the time was Bidens largest donor and lobbying the Delaware senator for bankruptcy reforms that would make it harder for consumers to declare bankruptcy and write off credit-card debt.
Besides a job for Hunter, bank executives and employees gave generously to Joe Bidens campaigns $214,000 total, federal records show and one top executive even bought Bidens Wilmington, Delaware, home for more than $200,000 above the market value, real estate records show. The exec paid top dollar $1.2 million for the old house even though it lacked central air conditioning. MBNA also flew Biden and his wife to events and covered their travel costs, disclosure forms show.
Sen. Biden eventually came through for MBNA by sponsoring and whipping votes in the Senate to pass the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Act.
When NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw asked Biden during the 2008 presidential campaign whether it was wrong for someone like you in the middle of all this to have your son collecting money from this big credit-card company while you were on the (Senate) floor protecting its interests, Biden gave an answer he would repeat many times in the future: Absolutely not, he snapped, arguing it was completely appropriate and that Hunter deserved the position and generous salary because he graduated from Yale.
Hunter also capitalized on the family name in 1998 when he joined President Clintons agency. In spite of having no experience in the dot-com industry, he was appointed “executive director of e-commerce policy coordination, pulling down another six-figure salary plus bonuses.
He landed the job after his fathers longtime campaign manager and lawyer William Oldaker called then-Commerce Secretary William Daley, who’d also worked on Bidens campaigns, and put in a good word for his son, according to public records.
After Republican President George W. Bush took over the Commerce Department, Hunter left the government and joined Oldaker to open a lobbying shop in Washington, just blocks from Congress, where he gained access to exclusive business and political deals.
Federal disclosure forms show Hunter Biden and his firm billed millions of dollars while lobbying on behalf of a host of hospitals and private colleges and universities, among other clients. In a 2006 disclosure statement submitted to the Senate, Hunter said his clients were seeking federal appropriations dollars.
Hunter won the contract to represent St. Josephs University from an old Biden family friend who worked in government relations at the university and proposed he solicit earmarks for one of its programs in Philadelphia. The friend, Robert Skomorucha, remarked in a press interview that Hunter had a very strong last name that really paid off in terms of our lobbying efforts.
These clients, like MBNA, also favored bankruptcy reforms to make it harder for patients and students to discharge debt in bankruptcy filings. At the same time Hunter was operating as a Beltway lobbyist, he was receiving “consulting payments” from his old employer MBNA, which was still courting his father over the bankruptcy reforms.
In 2007, Hunter also dined with a private prison lobbyist who had business before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee Joe Biden chaired, according to published reports. Senate rules bar members or their staff from having contact with family members who are lobbyists seeking to influence legislation.
Hunters lawyer-lobbyist firm was embroiled in a conflict-of-interest controversy in 2006 when it was criticized for representing a lobbyist under investigation by the House ethics committee. The lobbyist was still taking payments from his old K Street firm while working as a top aide on the House Appropriations Committee. Hunter at the time was lobbying that same committee for earmarks for his clients.
William Oldaker did not just make Hunter a rich lobbyist. Oldaker also secured a $1 million loan for him through a bank he co-founded, WashingtonFirst, that Hunter sought for an investment scheme, which later went sour.
Joe Biden deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign and political action committee donations at WashingtonFirst, while funneling hundreds of thousands in campaign and PAC expenditures to Oldaker, Biden & Belair. Joe Biden’s payments to Hunters lobbying firm, including more than $143,000 in 2007 alone, were listed as legal services in Federal Election Commission filings.
Oldaker did not respond to a request for comment left at his office.
While serving as a partner at Oldaker, Biden & Belair, Hunter also registered as a lobbyist for National Group, a lobbying-only subsidiary which shared offices with OB&B and specialized in targeted spending items inserted into legislation known as earmarks.
Hunter represented his fathers alma mater, the University of Delaware, and other Biden constituents and submitted requests to Bidens office for earmarks benefiting these clients in appropriations bills.
In 2005, when Joe Biden was thinking about making another run at the White House, after a 1987 bid that ended in plagiarism charges, his lobbyist son was looking for a new line of work too.
In early 2006, Wall Street executive and Biden family friend Anthony Lotito said, Bidens younger brother, Jim, phoned him on behalf of the senator. He said Biden wanted his youngest son whom he still called Honey to get out of the lobbying business to avoid allegations of conflicts of interest that might dog Bidens presidential bid.
Biden was concerned with the impact that Hunters lobbying activities might have on his expected campaign [and asked his brother to] seek Lotitos assistance in finding employment for Hunter in a non-lobbying capacity, according to a January 2007 complaint that Lotito filed in New York state court against Hunter over alleged breach of contract in a related venture. (Jim and Hunter Biden denied such a phone call took place as described.)
Lotito told the court he agreed to help Hunter as a favor to the senator, who had served on the powerful banking committee. He figured the financial community might be a good starting place in which to seek out employment on Hunters behalf, the court documents state. But he quickly found that Wall Street had no interest” in hiring Biden.
So the Bidens hatched a scheme to buy a hedge fund, whereby Hunter would then assume a senior executive position with the company. And Lotito helped broker the deal. Despite having no Wall Street experience, Biden was appointed interim CEO and president of the Paradigm investment fund and given a $1.2 million salary, according to SEC filings. Lotito joined the enterprise as a partner, and agreed to shepherd Hunter, still in his mid-30s, through his new role in high-finance.
Given Hunter Bidens inexperience in the securities industry, the complaint states, it was agreed that Lotito would maintain an office at the new holding companys New York headquarters in order to assist Biden in discharging his duties as president.
After the venture failed, Lotito sued the Bidens for fraud. The Bidens countersued and the two parties settled in 2008.
During this same period, Hunter was appointed vice chairman of the taxpayer-subsidized rail line, thanks to the sponsorship of powerful Democratic Sen. Harry Reid, a political ally of his father.
In a 2006 statement submitted to the Senate during his confirmation, Hunter asserted that he was qualified for the Amtrak board because as a frequent commuter and Amtrak customer for over 30 years, I have literally logged thousands of miles on Amtrak.
Amtrak has been a major supporter of Joe Biden, donating to both his Senate and presidential campaigns and even naming a train station after him in Wilmington. In return, Biden has supported taxpayer subsidies for the government railroad throughout his political career.
In his testimony, Hunter denied his Amtrak appointment pushed conflict-of-interest boundaries.
Hunter co-founded the investment firm five months after his father moved into the White House and incorporated it in his fathers home state of Delaware, which has strict corporate secrecy rules.
At the time, President Barack Obama had tapped Vice President Biden to oversee the recovery from the financial crisis. Three weeks after Rosemont was incorporated, Hunter and his partners set up a subsidiary called Rosemont TALF and got $24 million in loans from the federal program known as the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility. TALF was designed to help bail out banks and auto lenders hit by the crisis.
Within months, Rosemont had secured a total of $130 million from the program. Some of the government cash was then funneled into an investment fund incorporated in the Cayman Islands, SEC records show. Such offshore accounts are commonly used to evade taxes.
The move raised ethical flags with government watchdogs who suspected the bailout cash was used to benefit a well-connected insider.
Other records reveal that another subsidiary created years later Rosemont Realty touted to its investors that board adviser Hunter was politically connected. It highlighted in a company prospectus that he was the son of Vice President Biden.
On his resume, Hunter also lists himself as founder” of yet another investment firm. But Eudoras articles of incorporation show it was actually set up by a major Biden donor, Jeffrey Cooper, who put Hunter on his board after his father became vice president.
A self-described friend of the Biden family, Cooper also happened to run one of the largest asbestos-litigation firms in the country SimmonsCooper LLC and had courted Biden to make it easier to file asbestos lawsuits by defeating tort reforms. As a leader on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden had blocked reform of asbestos litigation every time bills reached the Senate floor.
Coopers law firm, which directly lobbied the Delaware senator’s office to kill such bills, donated more than $200,000 to Bidens campaigns over the years, as well as his Unite Our States PAC, FEC records show. In fact, SimmonsCooper was one of Bidens biggest donors during his failed 2007-2008 run for president, pumping $53,000 into his campaign.
The firm also put up $1 million in investment capital to help his son buy out the Paradigm hedge fund as part of the arrangement brokered by another Biden family friend, Lotito, to find non-lobbying work for Hunter. Thanks in large part to Bidens effort to kill bills reining in asbestos trial lawyers, SimmonsCooper has hauled in more than $1 billion for alleged asbestos victims.
Attempts to reach Cooper for comment were unsuccessful.
When Joe Biden became vice president, Hunter landed a high-paying, no-show job at the New York-based law firm, a Democrat shop long tied to the Clintons. Another major Biden donor, the firm gave him the title of counsel.
Boies Schiller brought Hunter aboard in 2009 after the Bidens hired the firm to defend Hunter against charges he defrauded partners in the Paradigm investment venture. Boies Schiller managed to get the case dismissed.
In 2014, a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch, who was under investigation and looking to repair his reputation to attract Western investors, started sending large payments to Boies to support Hunter for unspecified work. Its unclear what Hunter did for the oligarch, who ran the gas giant Burisma, but $283,000 showed up at the same time his father was tapped by Obama to play a central role in overseeing U.S. energy policy in Ukraine.
Boies Schiller has pumped more than $50,000 into Biden’s campaigns, Federal Election Commission records show.
After Obama named Biden his point man on China policy, Rosemont Seneca set up a joint venture worth $1 billion with the Bank of China called BHR and Hunter was named vice chairman and director of the new concern.
Following in the shadow of his fathers political trajectory, Hunters new venture won the first-of-its-kind investment deal with the Chinese government at the same time Biden was jetting to Beijing to meet with top communist leaders. Secret Service records reveal Hunter flew to China on Air Force Two with his father while brokering the December 2013 deal. He arranged for one of his Chinese partners to shake hands with the vice president. BHR was registered 12 days later. Beijing OKd a business license shortly afterward.
No one else had such an arrangement in China, said Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute.
Hunter resigned from the board of the Beijing-backed equity firm earlier this year as his father faced growing criticism on the campaign trail over what critics called a glaring conflict of interest. He did not, however, divest his 10 percent equity stake in the Chinese fund, which is estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Schweizer, whose books include Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by Americas Progressive Elites, said Biden went soft on the Chinese communists so his son could cash in on China business deals. Biden insists he did not discuss the venture with his son before, during, or after his official visit to Beijing. But others see obvious hypocrisy at play in the Biden family’s self-dealing in notoriously corrupt China.
“Biden was one of the most vocal champions of anti-corruption efforts in the Obama administration. So when this same Biden takes his son with him to China aboard Air Force Two, and within days Hunter joins the board of an investment advisory firm with stakes in China, it does not matter what father and son discussed, said Sarah Chayes, author of “Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens National Security. “Joe Biden has enabled this brand of practice.
Hunter was selected for a direct commission as a public affairs officer in a Virginia reserve unit.
He clearly received special treatment in securing the part-time post. Officers had to issue him two waivers one for his age and one for a previous drug offense. His vice president father swore him in at the White House in a small, private ceremony.
Barely a year later, authorities booted Hunter from the Navy for cocaine use after he tested positive from a urine test. The reason for his discharge was withheld from the press for several months.
The Ukrainian gas giant added Hunter to its board soon after Obama named his father his point man on Ukraine policy, focusing on energy. The company paid his son as much as $83,000 a month, even though he had no energy experience to bring to the table and was required to attend just one board meeting a year.
At the time, the vice president was steering U.S. aid to Kyiv to help develop its gas fields, which stood to benefit Burisma as the holder of permits to develop natural gas in three of Ukraines most lucrative fields. Biden promised Ukrainian officials the United States would pump more than $1 billion into their energy industry and economy during a visit to Kyiv in late April 2014. He urged leaders to increase the countrys gas supply and to rely on Americans to help them. Less than three weeks later, Burisma appointed his son to the board, after already retaining him for undisclosed services through Boies Schiller.
Burisma was run by an oligarch, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was under investigation at the time and seeking Western protection from prosecution. In a move observers suspect was intended to send a message to prosecutors, the company sent out a news release in May 2014 claiming, falsely, that Hunter would be in charge of its legal unit. Burisma also trumpeted the fact that Hunter was the son of the current U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden.”
Bidens office was aware Burisma was under investigation. The administration had tried to partner with the gas company through U.S. aid programs, but the outreach project was blocked over corruption concerns lodged by career diplomats.
In early 2016, Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if Ukraine did not dismiss the countrys top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma. If the prosecutor is not fired, Biden recalled telling Ukraines leader, youre not getting the money.”
Bidens muscling worked: Shokin was sacked in March 2016.
The former vice president says he was carrying out official U.S. policy that sought to remove an ineffective prosecutor. But Shokin had raided the home of Burismas owner and seized his property.
In addition, Shokin said that as part of his probe he was making plans to interview Hunter about millions of dollars in fees he and his partners had received from Burisma. He insists he was fired because he refused to close the investigation.
The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma, and Joe Bidens son was a member of the board, Shokin said in a recent sworn affidavit prepared for a European court. I assume Burisma had the support of Joe Biden because his son was on the board. He added that the vice president himself had significant interests in Burisma.
The prosecutor who replaced Shokin shut down the Burisma probe within 10 months. Burismas founder was also taken off a U.S. government visa ban list.
Biden claims he only learned of his son joining the Burisma board from the news media. But there is evidence Biden had been consulted in advance. White House visitor logs show that Biden met with Hunters business partner Devon Archer on April 16, 2014. Burisma put Archer on its board shortly thereafter, followed by Hunter the next month. (Both Archer and Hunter maintain Burisma never came up during the private visit in Bidens office, which lasted late into the night.)
The day after Joe Bidens meeting with Hunters partner in the White House, Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi reportedly emailed Hunter to thank him for inviting him to Washington and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent[sic] some time together. The Biden campaign asserts it cannot find a meeting with Pozharskyi on the former vice presidents schedule, though it did not deny such a meeting could have taken place. The Ukrainian official mentioned going out for coffee with Hunter on April 17, 2014, which indicated he was physically in D.C. at the time. RCI has not confirmed the authenticity of the April 17 email document, first disclosed by the New York Post after obtaining it from a hard drive allegedly copied from a laptop of Hunter Biden left at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware. Pozharskyi did not respond to emails seeking comment.
Hunter stepped down from Burisma’s board in April 2019, a month before his father announced his White House bid and after critics made an issue of the conflicts his sinecure posed. He has since kept a very low profile. Unlike Trumps children, Bidens son is not out on the trail campaigning for him.
Hunter Biden had no experience in the field, but he did have a notable connection to the vice president, who publicly has bragged about making clear to the Ukrainians that he alone controlled U.S. aid to the country, noted Jonathan Turley, a public-interest law professor at George Washington University.
Retired FBI official I.C. Smith, who led public corruption investigations in Washington and Little Rock, Arkansas, said both father and son should have known joining Burisma was a bad idea, adding that it gives at least the appearance he was leveraging his name for payoffs from shady clients abroad.
“Clearly he’s led a troubled life and would be the sort of person susceptible to becoming engaged in this sort of rather sordid deal, Smith said of Hunter.
“When he said his father asked if the deal was on the up and up and was assured it was, I would think, given Hunter’s past, the father would have asked more questions, he added.
Hunter acknowledged in an ABC News interview last year that he lacked experience in both energy and Ukraine, but maintained that Burisma was impressed by other things on his resume.
Ironically, Hunter highlighted his work at MBNA and his work on the board of Amtrak as evidence of his qualifications for the Burisma gig, said Fitton of Judicial Watch. “But both the MBNA and Amtrak jobs, under any sensible analysis, were obvious favors for Joe Biden.”
Fitton argued that Bidens claim he never discussed his sons jobs and business deals rings hollow against the lengthy record of something-for-nothing nepotism.
Thats campaign spin, he said. Hunter has already admitted to having at least one conversation on the Ukraine issue with Vice President Biden.
Biden defenders argue that many relatives of politicians are often involved in government and politics. Ivanka Trump and Don Trump Jr., for instance, have cozy relationships with, or financial stakes in, companies that may benefit from those decisions. They also point out that, while they may look bad, there’s nothing illegal about such arrangements.
Fitton isnt so sure. He said Judicial Watch is demanding Obama administration documents related to Hunters Ukraine and China deals, as well as other business arrangements potentially monetizing Bidens political power.
We cant be sure if the arrangements were legal, he said. If any payments or jobs were neither ordinary nor customary, there may be legal issues.
Its a federal crime to provide a government benefit or favorable change in policy in exchange for something of personal value. At a minimum, argued former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, Biden had a conflict of interest with the position his son had on the Burisma board, noting that at the time, Biden was pushing energy policies that favored the gas giant.
Not all of Hunter Bidens critics are coming from the right, either.
Its hard to avoid the conclusion that Hunters foreign employers and partners were seeking to leverage Hunters relationship with Joe, either by seeking improper influence or to project access to him, said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a liberal watchdog group based in Washington.
While Joe Biden insists theres been no indication of any conflict of interest from Ukraine or anywhere else,” Senate investigators are seeking a number of related emails and memos generated during the Obama administration, as well as his 36-year Senate career. That period, spanning from 1973 to 2009, coincides with a large chunk of his sons resume.
However, Biden has sealed the bulk of the records at the University of Delaware Library, which refuses to release any of his papers until after the election. It maintains more than 1,850 boxes of Biden records, including his speeches, voting records, position papers, and notes from confidential interviews hes conducted with foreign leaders, among other documents. The papers the university is keeping a lid on could shed light on Bidens thinking behind foreign policies and controversial bills he sponsored.
A spokeswoman said the library will not release any of Bidens papers to the public until they are properly processed and archived. Until then, access is only available with Vice President Bidens express consent, she said, while declining to answer whether the university would comply if the Senate subpoenaed documents as part of its investigation of the Bidens.
The university houses the Biden Institute, which is part of the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration.
Through a lawyer, Hunter maintained he and his father dutifully avoided conflicts of interest or even the appearance of such conflicts.” In every business pursuit, he asserted, they acted appropriately and in good faith.
However, in a moment of candor during a recent ABC News interview, Hunter confessed: “I don’t think that there’s a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn’t Biden, before adding, “There’s literally nothing my father in some way hasn’t had influence over.
Still, the elder Biden argues its the Trump family who has the nepotism problem. In a recent CBS 60 Minutes interview, he slammed the president for letting his daughter and son-in-law “sit in on Cabinet meetings.”
“It’s just simply improper because you should make it clear to the American public that everything you’re doing is for them, he intoned. “For them.
Beijings Joe Braindeaden, the criminal father of Humpher Biden, has been totally bought and controlled by the ChiComs for years.
Following in the shadow of his fathers political trajectory, Hunters new venture won the first-of-its-kind investment deal with the Chinese government at the same time Biden was jetting to Beijing to meet with top communist leaders.
Secret Service records reveal Hunter flew to China on Air Force Two with his father while brokering the December 2013 deal. He arranged for one of his Chinese partners to shake hands with the vice president. BHR was registered 12 days later. Beijing OKd a business license shortly afterward.
No one else had such an arrangement in China, said Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute.
Hunter resigned from the board of the Beijing-backed equity firm earlier this year as his father faced growing criticism on the campaign trail over what critics called a glaring conflict of interest. He did not, however, divest his 10 percent equity stake in the Chinese fund, which is estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Schweizer, whose books include Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by Americas Progressive Elites, said Biden went soft on the Chinese communists so his son could cash in on China business deals. Biden insists he did not discuss the venture with his son before, during, or after his official visit to Beijing. But others see obvious hypocrisy at play in the Biden familys self-dealing in notoriously corrupt China.
Biden was one of the most vocal champions of anti-corruption efforts in the Obama administration. So when this same Biden takes his son with him to China aboard Air Force Two, and within days Hunter joins the board of an investment advisory firm with stakes in China, it does not matter what father and son discussed, said Sarah Chayes, author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens National Security. Joe Biden has enabled this brand of practice.
Since the Democrats always engage in projection, it’s interesting to recall how often they have tried to catch Trump under the emoluments clause - using his golf courses, his hotels, whatever.
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is squeezing foreign countries for money and funneling some of that money to Joe. That’s probably impeachable right there.
Sorry, Hunter is not a prodigal son. To the contrary, he is cut from the same cloth as his old man.
Our government is rotten to the core.
Makes Banana Republics look like shiny cities on a hill.
I can tell you what the Rats response to this is going to be once they can’t deny it anymore...
“Everybody does it!”
And there’s a certain truth to it, even if it’s not to this degree.
Was Hunter a licensed forign agent for Russia?
If not the money transfer was illegal. Why is the beltway crew able to get away with this? Need to put him in Jail.
His Daddy knew what Hunter was doing and getting paid for.... this should also disqualify him as he was complicit.
Yet, braindead Democrats ...Pelosi, Schiff and he rest......went after Trump.
Lets not leave out Joe Bidens political influence got Hunter in the Navy ‘as an Officer’ (while he was an addict)...though the Navy resisted. He was kicked out in 30 days for drugs, ....but get this Joe Biden got his son an ‘honorable discharge’ anyway...but there is no Honorable discharge for an Officer on drugs in the Navy - ever!
-Has a rich successful politician dad -Kicked out of the military for smoking crack -Lands a $50,000/month board job for a Ukrainian energy company despite not speaking Ukrainian or having any background in the energy sector -Gets a 26 year old woman pregnant despite him having a daughter the same age, all while dating your dead brothers wife -Daddy gets a foreign government to fire anyone that might investigate his shady deals -Media wont even touch any of this with a 10 foot pole
The life of a scumbag is good.....
What do you mean his son?
Hunter Biden disclosed in an email to his sister that ONE HALF of all the money he received went to Joe Biden..
ONE HALF! How is Joe Biden still not being arrested or in jail?
btt
I’m starting to think Joe has used Hunter all these years to collect bribes, Hunter has been used by Joe and has resulted in his drug and alcohol abuse. Joe likes being a big shot but how involved Jill is cannot be overlooked. Hunter said he has supported Joe for 30 years and has to give him 50%. Hunter maybe the victim of life long abuse at the hands of Joe and Jill. The one thing we are sure of is Joe is a crook.
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