Handsy Joe Biden, a.k.a. Creepy Uncle Joe, who is facing #MeToo allegations, might have colluded with Ukraine which ended up allegedly financially benefiting his family in what is often generically referred to in other contexts as a pay-for-play scheme.
From John Solomon in The Hill about the alleged conflict of interest if not outright corruption:
“Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor. In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin….
“But Ukrainian officials tell me there was one crucial piece of information that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his audience: The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.
“U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia….
“[S]ome hard questions should be answered by Biden as he prepares, potentially, to run for president in 2020: Was it appropriate for your son and his firm to cash in on Ukraine while you served as point man for Ukraine policy? What work was performed for the money Hunter Biden’s firm received? Did you know about the Burisma probe? And when it was publicly announced that your son worked for Burisma, should you have recused yourself from leveraging a U.S. policy to pressure the prosecutor who very publicly pursued Burisma? “
Hunter Biden also reportedly profited from a deal with a China state-owned bank. “It is incredibly ironic that liberals can try to blame $100,000 in Russian Facebook ads for defeating Hillary Clinton’s $1 billion campaign. In comparison, this $1.5 billion Hunter Biden deal with China as the son of a sitting Vice President is more likely to influence foreign policy than the Russian Facebook ads,” The Daily Caller declared.
Much speculation has emerged that the Obama machine is orchestrating the groping allegations against Biden, despite being the ex-president’s VP, to clear the 2020 Democrat presidential field for Sen. Kamala Harris.
Biden has denied ever acting inappropriately with women.
Leaving aside Joe’s current problems, there is a lot of very questionable spin from some pundits that Biden, who is just another liberal trying to pander the far-left or alt-left with racially charged comments, could be a formidable candidate against President Trump in the Rust Belt.
However, Biden was along for the ride while the Obama administration destroyed the Midwest economy.
Moreover, everyone seems to forget that as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, so-called nice guy Biden presided over the character assassination of many Republican federal court nominees.
