Speaking out for the first time since fabricated allegations about his involvement in a Ukrainian gas company formed the basis of a foreign pressure campaign by President Trump, Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, said there was no “ethical lapse” in his decision to join the board of Burisma Holdings.
Hunter Biden said he did not speak with his father about his decision to join Burisma’s board when Joe Biden was vice president, beyond Joe Biden telling him “I hope you know what you’re doing.” Hunter Biden admitted that it may have been a mistake to join the board and said he would not take on any other board leadership positions “when” his father becomes president.
“Did I make a mistake? Maybe in the grand scheme of things, ya, but did I make a mistake based on some ethical lapse? Absolutely not,” Hunter Biden said.
EXCLUSIVE: @ABC News' @arobach goes one-on-one with Hunter Biden.
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— ABC News (@ABC) October 15, 2019
The fabricated allegations against Hunter and Joe Biden that Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani have been spreading formed the basis of their push to get the Ukrainian government to investigate the Bidens. That request is at the center of the House’s impeachment probe against President Trump.
The Trump spawn have done ethical laps around Hunter.
I don’t understand the thinking by team Biden to have Hunter do this interview today.
I really don’t think Joe has been forceful enough against this .
If you get Swift Boated Joe, you have yourself to blame
Kerry ignored it at his peril, until it became “common knowledge”
The narrative even when it is a big lie is hard to roll back
I’d be interested to know the time and place when the rich and powerful didn’t make each other sweetheart deals. It’s so utterly standard and expected that the word “corruption” seems close to inappropriate. Downward from what state of grace have we corruptly slid, exactly? Anyway, compared to Trump’s super-mega-boffo corruption it’s close to quaint.
True that. But the lurid and traitorous corruptions of the Trump period will be a big truth against which the big lie will falter in its tracks. It’ll be little but a whatabout in the letters to the editor in the local weekly that the same old crank nobody pays attention to is always sending.
The whole intrigue with Ukraine and the fake link with the Bidens does not look like it’s helping Joe’s run. However, it is what officially got us on the impeachment track. So, whether he gets the nomination or not, he will have helped in getting the criminal out of the WH.