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+1 Only tricky part is that the overt corruption took place under Obama's watch. Did he know what the Bidens were doing? |
Overt corruption... You mean business. Romney is a PE guy, which is a polite way of saying corporate raider. His company killed Toys R Us. That's not corruption. It's business. |
What Hunter-Joe did was plan corruption. What Romney did was business. |
Being on a board isn't corruption. Bye. |
Biden was calling for the resignation of the corrupt prosecutors - something the global community including Senators from both sides of the aisle, supported. |
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Joe Biden's demand that Shokin be fired was in December 2015. Shokin was not removed until March 2016 after Christine Lagarde of the IMF called for it. Shokin was blatantly corrupt and everyone knew it.
February 2016: IMF Demand For Ukraine Reform Just Latest Red Flag For Poroshenko https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-imf-demand-poroshenko-corruption/27545849.html A stinging rebuke from the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has underscored the precarious spot in which Ukraine finds itself despite Kyiv's repeated pledges to tackle corruption and enact major reforms. Anticorruption campaigners point to the controversial appointment in February 2014, at the height of the Euromaidan furor, of sexagenarian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin. Shokin previously served in the same post under Presidents Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko, and in his new tenure has proposed a number of Yanukovych-era holdovers for key functions, making him the ultimate political insider in the eyes of critics. Poroshenko has ignored repeated calls to sack Shokin, including from more than 100 members of parliament. March 2016 EU hails sacking of Ukraine’s prosecutor Viktor Shokin https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/eu-hails-sacking-of-ukraine-s-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-1.2591190?mode=amp The European Union has welcomed the dismissal of Ukraine’s scandal-ridden prosecutor general and called for a crackdown on corruption, even as the country’s political crisis deepened over efforts to form a new ruling coalition and appoint a new prime minister. Ukraine’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to fire Viktor Shokin, ridding the beleaguered prosecutor’s office of a figure who is accused of blocking major cases against allies and influential figures and stymying moves to root out graft. |
I saw a Jonathan Karl tweet where he posted a video of him questioning Jay Carney about this during Obama administration re conflict of interest for Hunter to be on the board of a Urkrainian company. Carney's response: contact veep's office. He said he did contact the veep's office and did not really get a response. Had this been Pence, do you really think the media would have dropped the issue? I think it was also in NYT and WSJ at the time. But, it was dropped. |
Yes. The media has dropped all sorts of issues during this presidency, major and minor or not even issues at all. The son of the VP being on a board doesn't seem like a huge issue, especially if the details are examined closely. |
Being on a board making an obscene amount of money with zero relevant qualifications other than your dad's name, and then having said dad carry your water, is the very definition of corruption. |
Yup. Had this been Pence's kid, I guarantee a hundred articles and OpEds in the NYT front page. |
He had plenty of qualifications. You may not like it, and maybe he wouldn't have been able to have that CV if he had been the son of someone else. But so what? |
And yet, we have the presidents adult children and son-in-law reaping hundreds of millions from across the globe with nary a peep. Hunter went through the proper ethics advisories with the US government and the White House. |
At least he was on a board and disclosed it. What about the hidden activities of Ivanka, Jared, Eric and Junior? I am sure you are apoplectic about them. |
What qualifications? |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden |