{UAH} GUESS WHO IS JOINING THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN

Biden Campaign Drops Extraordinary News…Guess Who’s Joining The Campaign?

On Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden declared that his youngest son, Hunter, the subject of quite a bit of controversy as of late, will be joining the campaign trail.

This is either incredibly bold, or incredibly stupid, of the Bidens. Actually, it’s both.

Biden has so far refused to discuss his son’s business dealings in either Ukraine or China, both of which raise serious questions about how Biden may have used his position as VP to secure his son high-paying business deals.

Nonetheless, he sees no problem with bringing his son on the campaign, according to comments he made during an interview with the Reno Gazette Journal during a campaign stop in Nevada.

“He’s a fine man. He’s been through hell,” Biden said of his son.

The younger Biden has not appeared alongside his father in public in months. Initially, Hunter Biden was supposed to attend his father’s campaign launch in late-April, but those plans were squashed after Breitbart News reported on a 2016 incident in which a cocaine pipe was found in a car he rented in Arizona. Since then, Hunter Biden has kept a low profile, apart from a June profile in the New Yorker magazine in which he discussed his shadowy business dealings and longstanding drug abuse.

Hunter Biden’s reemergence on the campaign coincides with heightened scrutiny over his role at Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian oil and natural gas conglomerate, and if it intersected with his father’s political influence. The controversy began when President Donald Trump suggested the Ukrainian government look into Hunter Biden’s business dealings in the country, as there are multiple red flags concerning conflicts of interest.

In particular, the most prominent and perplexing concern is how and why Hunter Biden secured an appointment to Burisma’s board of directors, a position which purportedly paid as much as $83,000 per month, in 2014. As Peter Schweizer, senior contributor at Breitbart News, detailed in his book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, Hunter Biden had no prior experience with either the energy industry or Ukraine before being tapped for the position.

The lack of experience, coupled with the fact that Joe Biden at the time had just been made the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine, immediately raised questions from ethics watchdogs in both the U.S. and Europe. Adding to the ethical cloud surrounding the appointment is that at the time of Hunter Biden’s appointment, the company’s founder, Mykola Zlochevsky, had his assets seized in Great Britain on suspicion of money laundering.

There are many who believe that Hunter Biden’s position at Burisma was the result of an attempt by Zlochevsky to gain favor with the Obama administration to curb further scrutiny of his shady business.

This wouldn’t be unusual for Zlochevsky, who is rumored to be one of the region’s wealthiest oligarchs and has a reputation for his strong political ties to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was a firm ally of Russian President Vladimir Puting.

Zlochevsky was also once a Ukrainian minister of natural resources, and it’s widely believed he used his office to further Burisma’s oil and gas interests.

It is in the context of Burisma and Zlochevsky’s legal troubles that Joe Biden’s conflicting interests have drawn the most suspicion. The former vice president has particularly drawn concerns over his conduct in demanding the Ukrainian government fire its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, in 2016. Biden has officially claimed his demand and the threat to withhold more than one billion in U.S. aid came from then-President Barack Obama, who allegedly had lost faith in Shokin’s ability to root out corruption.

Unofficially, though, it was well known that Shokin was investigating both Burisma and Zlochevsky for wrongdoing and public corruption. It is unclear if the probe extended to Hunter Biden, although Shokin has recently admitted that prior to his firing he was told to back off the matter. Regardless of what exactly occurred, Shokin’s successor closed the investigation into Burisma and Zlochevsky, allowing the oligarch to return to the country after having fled it in 2014.

Since Trump’s suggestion to the Ukranian president that the Burisma business needed to be looked into, the Democrats have been desperately trying to distract by pinning the charge of corruption on Trump.

Meanwhile, Biden has been trying to downplay where he fits in in all this, by consistently claiming that neither he nor his son did anything wrong, and that an impeachment probe will do this.

Sure.

“I’m also confident the American people know me, and they know my son,” he told the Gazette Journal on Thursday.

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