The worst individual malefactor also happened to own the company that paid Hunter Biden millions to sit on its corporate board.
Two years later, a prosecutor investigating Burisma lost his job after pressure from Hunter Biden's father.
In the bestselling Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, Peter Schweizer notes the observation of Foreign Affairs that "No one in the United States government has wielded more power over Ukraine than Vice President Joe Biden" Biden made regular calls to the country's president and took five trips to Ukraine between 2014 and 2017.
"Four days before Biden arrived," Schweizer writes, "Burisma made a dramatic announcement: the Ukrainian criminal investigations into the company and its founder had been ended by Ukrainian government prosecutors."
Even if political motives nudged Trump's interest in an investigation, corrupt conduct characterized Joe Biden's glaring conflict of interest in Ukraine.
During the impeachment hearings, witnesses carefully insisted Hunter Biden's strange emergence as a Ukrainian corporate overlord for a corrupt energy company merely risked appearing as a conflict of interest given his father's power over the country.
Witnesses who rushed to decipher Donald Trump's use of "Burisma" as code for "The Bidens" saw nothing impure in the actions of Hunter Biden, a man best known for a Naval discharge for popping positive for cocaine and for cheating on his brother's widow by impregnating a twenty-something Arkansas woman.
https://spectator.org/unheard-at-the-impeachment-hearings/
Two years later, a prosecutor investigating Burisma lost his job after pressure from Hunter Biden's father.
In the bestselling Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, Peter Schweizer notes the observation of Foreign Affairs that "No one in the United States government has wielded more power over Ukraine than Vice President Joe Biden" Biden made regular calls to the country's president and took five trips to Ukraine between 2014 and 2017.
"Four days before Biden arrived," Schweizer writes, "Burisma made a dramatic announcement: the Ukrainian criminal investigations into the company and its founder had been ended by Ukrainian government prosecutors."
Even if political motives nudged Trump's interest in an investigation, corrupt conduct characterized Joe Biden's glaring conflict of interest in Ukraine.
During the impeachment hearings, witnesses carefully insisted Hunter Biden's strange emergence as a Ukrainian corporate overlord for a corrupt energy company merely risked appearing as a conflict of interest given his father's power over the country.
Witnesses who rushed to decipher Donald Trump's use of "Burisma" as code for "The Bidens" saw nothing impure in the actions of Hunter Biden, a man best known for a Naval discharge for popping positive for cocaine and for cheating on his brother's widow by impregnating a twenty-something Arkansas woman.
https://spectator.org/unheard-at-the-impeachment-hearings/
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