His response – that he never spoke to Hunter about his business was ridiculous. Not only was that proven wrong, but he should have talked with him to make sure there were no conflicts. Of course, Hunter shouldn’t have taken the job to begin with.
Via Fox News:
Amid the furor over President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which has prompted House Democrats to move forward with a Trump impeachment inquiry, serious underlying questions about the Biden family’s involvement in Ukraine persist.
With evidence suggesting that Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine posed a conflict of interest for his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, some Biden defenders are deploying talking points meant to deflect from the troubling facts. But some of these talking points – regularly repeated in the news media – do not hold up to a fact check.
Here are three talking points being used to defend the Bidens:
Point 1: There was an “absolute wall” between Hunter Biden’s business and Vice President Biden.
At a campaign stop last month, Joe Biden claimed to have an “absolute wall” between himself and his family’s business. He said: “There will be an absolute wall between personal and private [business interests] and the government…. That’s why I never talked with my son or my brother or anyone else – even distant family – about their business interests. Period.”
Biden’s “absolute wall” clearly has holes. In an interview with The New Yorker earlier this year, Hunter recalled discussing his work at Burisma, a controversial Ukrainian natural gas company, with his father on at least one occasion.