Does ‘honest’ Joe Biden belong in the sewer? Not the White House?

(weekend blog)

It seems that my new Brexit video, “The Brexit Song” is being more than slightly delayed. A bit like Brexit itself. Though hopefully, unlike Brexit, my video will eventually be delivered.

So instead, let’s start today’s blog with a touching (in the real sense of the word) family photo. This was taken at the funeral of Biden’s son Beau. The three interesting people in the photo are US Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Hallie the widow of Biden’s son Beau and Biden’s son Hunter.

As you’ll see, Creepy Hands-on Joe Biden is ‘comforting’ his son’s rather attractive widow. Biden’s other son Hunter is standing respectfully in the background.

Hunter’s private life has been slightly more than colourful. In 2014 he was kicked out of the Navy Reserve for taking cocaine. In 2017 it was revealed that he was dating Hallie Olivere, the widow of his brother Beau, who died of cancer in 2015.

In a bitter divorce, his wife, Kathleen, claimed he had spent “extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations), while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills”.

In April 2014 Hunter was appointed to the board of Burisma, a large Ukrainian energy company. His role was to oversee regulatory compliance. His father, at the time, was the Obama administration’s point man for Ukraine, focusing particularly on an anti-corruption drive, and had visited Kiev, the capital.

Bank records show that Hunter’s firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, received an estimated $3m in payments from Burisma in just over a year. Hunter had worked as a gambling industry lobbyist in Washington and had no relevant experience for his highly paid berth at Burisma.

“Hunter Biden has no background in energy or Ukraine or regulatory compliance,” said Peter Schweizer, an investigative journalist and editor-at-large at Breitbart News. “He has no track record as an international businessman. There’s really no good explanation as to why he gets that sweet a deal.”

The same month that Hunter joined the Burisma board, Britain’s Serious Fraud Office froze $23m in bank accounts in London that allegedly belonged to Burisma’s owner, as part of an investigation into money laundering.

Recently the Ukrainian general prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, revealed that he was renewing interest in the Burisma case and the Biden family’s connection to the company, giving the Bidens a possible headache

Questions have also been asked about a $1bn deal that Hunter made on highly favourable terms with a Chinese government investment firm, having first travelled to China on Air Force Two with his father in 2011.

As you’ll know, the mainstream media loathes democratically-elected President Donald Trump and has spent more than 3 years trying to dig up some dirt on the Donald alleging all kinds of corruption connected with Trump’s business dealings with Russia. And you can imagine the mainstream press’s feeding frenzy if they could have found any of Trump’s family engaged with dodgy foreign companies. Imagine the screaming headlines. Imagine the mouth-frothing fury of all the commentators.

But, of course, the mainstream media worships Democrat Saint Obama and anything to do with Saint Obama. So, as Obama’s former vice president, Biden can expect the mainstream media to be more than generous in avoiding investigating any scandals connected with his family. There won’t be any screaming headlines about Biden family corruption. There won’t be any mouth-frothing outrage.

Below is a short (1 minute) YouTube video of ‘Honest’ Joe Biden boasting at how easily he got the Ukrainian general prosecutor fired. Yup, I believe that’s the prosecutor general who was investigating the company which employed Biden’s son. Am I the only person who smells something rotten?