Is is right for someone while in a high political office to use that position to make or to enable financial deals that benefit themselves or their family?
Is it right for that person or group of people to make foreign policy decisions which result in them or their family having a direct financial benefit?
In 2011 Vice President Joe Biden took an official trip to China accompanied by his son. Hunter Biden had just formed an investment group in partnership with Secretary of State John Kerry's son-in-law and the son of famous mobster Whitey Bolger. Shortly afterwards the Chinese government funneled a deal worth 1.8 billion dollars to that new investment group. There was of course a quid quo pro which allowed Chinese investment for a 51% ownership in a company that produces goods for our military.
Hunter Biden was later put on the board of an Ukrainian oil company with Russian mob connections that paid his firm 3 million dollars. When that oil company came under investigation by Ukrainian officials Vice President Joe Biden flew to the Ukraine and threatened to pull a billion dollars of U.S. aid if they didn't fire the people engaged in that probe.
If you are actually interested in reading about the depth of corruption check out the articles below.
Here is a May 1st John Solomon's article in The Hill about the Bidens and Ukraine.
Here is a Zero Hedge article from last month on the same subject.
And here is a recent John Bolden article in The Hill on the Bidens and China.
Vice President Biden will have a lot of other stuff to worry about as we race toward the elections of 2020, but don't underestimate the importance of these.
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