The release of a joint report by the Senate committees on homeland security and finance raised important questions about obviously unethical foreign profiteering by members of the Biden family.
In particular, former Vice President Joe Biden's ne'er-do-well son Hunter received a remarkable amount of money from highly suspect foreign entities, including ones controlled by the Chinese government.
While a father is not responsible for the actions of his grown son, Joe Biden's role as at least a silent enabler raises serious questions about his judgment, not to mention his susceptibility, at least at the margins, to forms of foreign emotional blackmail.
The dealings of Hunter, James, Sara, and Hunter's business partner Devon Archer involved arrangements not just with multiple Chinese government-controlled entities and the People's Liberation Army but also with corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs, the wife of Moscow's former mayor, and a Kazakh power player, with millions upon millions of dollars flowing among numerous Biden family and foreign holdings.
With Joe Biden as the Obama administration's point man on Ukraine, two top diplomats told the vice president's team that his son's position created "The perception of a conflict of interest" and "Enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine."
A supposed statesman as experienced as Biden obviously knows that merely by trumpeting connections to powerful U.S. officials, corrupt foreign actors can leverage those connections for favors or for immunity from sanction or prosecution - even if the American official is genuinely pushing anti-corruption measures, as Biden did in Ukraine.
There is no good excuse for Joe Biden's ethical blindness about his son's and his brother's sleazy foreign profiteering.
Monday, September 28, 2020
Yes, Joe Biden is compromised by his family's shady foreign dealings
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