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Biden: ‘Nobody warned me’ about Hunter and Ukraine because Beau was dying
Washington Examiner ^ | | December 07, 2019 07:30 PM | Updated Dec 07, 2019, 09:12 PM | Emily Larsen

Posted on 12/07/2019 11:27:10 PM PST by conservative98

Joe Biden asserted that he never heard worries that his son Hunter Biden's role on a Ukrainian gas company could create a conflict of interest.

"Nobody warned me about a potential conflict of interest," Biden said Friday in an interview with NPR. "I never, never heard that once at all."

Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, while his father was vice president and working on Ukrainian policy. President Trump asked the Ukrainian president this year to investigate the Bidens, prompting Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings against Trump.

George Kent, a top State Department official, testified during impeachment hearings in November that he raised conflict of interest concerns after he learned Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board.

“In February 2015, I raised my concern that Hunter Biden’s status as a board member could create the perception of a conflict of interest,” Kent said. “Let me be clear, I did not witness any effort by any U.S. official to shield Burisma from scrutiny."

Joe Biden told NPR that if Kent raised the issue with his staff, they did not tell him about it likely because his late son Beau Biden was battling cancer.

"Well, my son was dying so I guess that's why he said it, because my son was on his deathbed. But that that's not the reason why — they should have told me," Biden said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alexandervindman; biden; bidenfamily; burisma; creepyjoebiden; creepyunclejoe; dadofadeadbeat; ericciaramella; haveyounodecency; humperjoe; humpherbiden; hunterbiden; joebiden; malarkey; quidprojoe; ukraine
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To: oldenuff35

The next version will be that if they told him, he was too upset to remember it.

My answer would be if you were too upset to function at a high level, why were you trotting around the world on important missions?


41 posted on 12/08/2019 12:09:32 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: conservative98

would have loved it if that man he called fatso would have said “Who you calling fatso? What the hell is wrong with you?”


42 posted on 12/08/2019 12:09:46 AM PST by Bob434
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If you notice, he runs to NPR every time he wants to launch a Whopper, which is often.

Hunter started out at Credit Card Company that Joe was in bed with.

The Amtrak gig was another Biden Scam - Joe Votes on Funding, subsidization.

China was taking $80,000 diamonds to his hotel room at night, which Hunter gleefully accepted.

There is a long pattern of Hunter getting No Show, Fatcat gigs.


43 posted on 12/08/2019 12:11:21 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: robel

Why doesn’t Obama or someone come out and say, yeah, we sent Biden there to fire the prosecutor?


44 posted on 12/08/2019 12:11:44 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: BradyLS

A “Clark Kent” this diplomat isn’t. We need him under oath again before the Senate to tell them WHO HE DID TELL ABOUT HIS CONCERNS ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN AND BURISMA.

Let’s see who else in the State Dept, Obama White House, NSC, DNI, etc. was involved, warned, or ignored re passing on these “concerns of Kent”.

Anything potentially involving a child of the President or VP SHOULD HAVE BEEN a priority for some kind of review and action.

Obama Regime. Cover-up, incompetent, treasonous.


45 posted on 12/08/2019 12:15:28 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: NorseViking


He’d need several Super Computers to keep track of all his Lies.

What a POS


46 posted on 12/08/2019 12:16:22 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: NorseViking

#24. Re “Does he ever keep track of his own lies”? NO. That is what he has staff and family for.


47 posted on 12/08/2019 12:17:24 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: Billthedrill

NONE

He would be so easy to beat.

We still need to get out the vote but he’s a clown.

And possibly in early stages of dementia.


48 posted on 12/08/2019 12:18:37 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: All

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This Just in!

Numerous Lawyers in the DoJ, State Dept, Office of VP, and WH warned Biden - and he challenged them to a Push-up contest.


49 posted on 12/08/2019 12:19:55 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: conservative98

BTTT


50 posted on 12/08/2019 12:19:59 AM PST by nopardons
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To: conservative98
The Costanza Defense:

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.
51 posted on 12/08/2019 12:20:32 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: wastedyears

”We’ve reached levels of stupid previously thought impossible.”

Biden is a Catholic. He should know the difference between right and wrong.

Biden is an attorney. He should understand the law.

Biden was in the US Senate for decades. He headed the Senate judiciary committee. He should understand the rules and laws pertaining to conflicts of interest for government officials and their families. He should also be fully aware of, if not fully participating in, the “opportunities” presented to members of Congress and their families to accrue wealth and power. An ethical member of Congress, or Vice President of the United States, will be keenly sensitive to even the slightest hint of impropriety with respect to himself and those around him and be proactive in avoiding the perception of improper activity.

Biden knew his son is a weak man who frequently falls to temptation and consistently behaves unethically and immorally.

As VP of the United States, and Obama’s point person on Ukrainian affairs, Biden knew of the rampant corruption in that nation. Knowing the ease of his son falling for temptation, a loving and morally straight father would never have taken his son to Ukraine. A loving father with the vast experience experience of Joe Biden, a man who has claimed he is ready to serve as president, would have immediately intervened when he learned Hunter had been hired by a Ukrainian company.

Biden, like all progressive politicians, constantly derides his political opponents for moral and ethical failings while holding himself up as a paragon of virtue.

Biden has condemned himself by his own behavior. An innocent and virtuous man would demand an impartial investigation of his and his son’s activities to preserve his honor and good name. Instead Biden deflects and shirks accountability.

Meanwhile no one in the GOP is demanding a special prosecutor to investigate Hunter and Joe. Why?

The entire affair reeks of corruption, not stupidity. The silence of Republicans is telling. Biden is not stupid. He knows his friends will protect him.


52 posted on 12/08/2019 12:31:39 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: conservative98; All

Now he is playing the “Dead Kid” card??


53 posted on 12/08/2019 12:31:57 AM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: Old Yeller

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So the guy he attacked was right?

And Biden called him Fat, Old, Sedentary, and a Damn Liar - because that was the Biden Team answer that day?

He’s now saying he was in the dark (while he traveled with Hunter) and his condition prevented him from being advised?

On Wednesday, that wasn’t the story.

He defended Hunter, too, at the Iowa town hall.


54 posted on 12/08/2019 12:32:33 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: conservative98
Using his dying son as an alibi this late in the game.
What a pathetic piece of human drek!

How pathetic! Own up to your misdeeds just like you demand others do.

55 posted on 12/08/2019 12:32:43 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Soul of the South


Brilliant commentary!

And Joe defended himself and Hunter just a day before his latest story.

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56 posted on 12/08/2019 12:35:17 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: All
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Some of Joe’s activities were not interrupted.


57 posted on 12/08/2019 12:44:24 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: conservative98

No sale Pedo!


58 posted on 12/08/2019 12:58:40 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuAJcWl6DE Kill a Commie for Mommie)
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To: generally

Good ketch...


59 posted on 12/08/2019 12:59:31 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: TChad
“Nobody warned me that it might have been illegal for Burisma to pay me a bribe through my son!”

Nobody warned me that it might be illegal to steal tax monies through my son. Everybody else was doing it too.

60 posted on 12/08/2019 1:03:21 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuAJcWl6DE Kill a Commie for Mommie)
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