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Home Front: Politix

Biden blames staff, says nobody ‘warned’ him son’s Ukraine job could raise conflict

2019-12-10

[FOXNEWS] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
claimed in a new interview that when his son Hunter was a board member of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings while he was in office, no one informed him that it could pose a problem.

Biden insisted again that Hunter did nothing wrong, but this time appeared to fault his staff for not cluing him in that there could be concerns about his son's involvement with the foreign company that had been under investigation while Biden was in office and dealing with Ukraine policy.

"Nobody warned me about a potential conflict of interest. Nobody warned me about that," Biden told NPR in a story posted Monday.

State Department official George Kent addressed this during his testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, acknowledging that he told staff members there was concern over the appearance of a conflict of interest, but that no one told the vice president because his older son Beau was suffering from what was ultimately a fatal battle with brain cancer.

"They should have told me," Biden says now. Hunter's dealings and the elder Biden's role ousting a prosecutor looking into Burisma are being used by Trump and his supporters against the now-2020 presidential candidate, even as Trump's effort to press for an investigation into that conduct has spurred the impeachment inquiry.

"The appearance looked bad and it gave folks like Rudy Giuliani an excuse to come up with a Trumpian kind of defense, while they were violating the Constitution," Biden said.

Posted by:Fred

#10 If his staff sucks now, imagine what his cabinet would be like. Just Say No to Slow Joe.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-10 13:45

#9 They suck on his staff.
While he sniffs their hair.

Posted by: Lex 2019-12-10 12:31

#8 The buck stops with Joe's staff.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-12-10 11:59

#7 So he is only as good as his staff, and his staff sucks. Nice jibe.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-12-10 11:59

#6 * cone-of-silence media (non-)treatment

Posted by: Lex 2019-12-10 02:19

#5 $40.

Biden can't survive Lil' Crackpipe's continuing saga--- we likely haven't even heard the half of it.

Also, even if by some miracle of come-of-silence treatment by the media Biden scrapes by in SC, he won't win CA and may not even win IA. Butt-jig and Bernie-Squeaky Fromme are likely to carry those states.

Posted by: Lex 2019-12-10 02:18

#4 I'd bet a small sum at this point that the donors and party pros will draft Hillary at the Convention next summer.

It could happen. I was thinking Liz Warren, but she seems to be fading into well-deserved irrelevance. Our pal European Conservative says Biden. Maybe we should have a pool. Winner gets bragging rights and losers pay Fred. $5 US?

Posted by: SteveS 2019-12-10 02:09

#3 The. Hinese fund has iirc $1.5b in assets under management. A standard "2 and 20" management fee arrangement would gross a minimum of $30m per year, probably about twice that sum, for the principals.

Son Hoover's cut would therefore probably amount to at least $5 million a year. For doing absolutely nothing.

That's a lot of diapers and baby shoes.
Go get 'im, Mom.

Posted by: Lex 2019-12-10 01:53

#2 EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden's baby mama Lunden Roberts has demanded he admit that he was employed by the Burisma, how much money he was paid by the Ukrainian company and that he also received money from a Chinese person or entity

Posted by: Skidmark 2019-12-10 01:48

#1 Loser.
If this guy's the (D) nominee in 2020 it won't be close.

I'd bet a small sum at this point that the donors and party pros will draft Hillary at the Convention next summer. Maybe that's Bloomie's end game?

Posted by: Lex 2019-12-10 00:50

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