Former Vice President and Democrat nominee 77-year-old Joe Biden refuses to answer questions about his 50-year-old son Hunter, claiming in a Sept. 29 Fox News debate with 74-year-old President Donald Trump that his 50-year-old son Hunger did nothing wrong. Well, technically taking $183,000 a month from a corrupt Ukrainian energy company is not legal but getting a personal favor from his Vice President father is an egregious conflict-of-interest. Yes, technically Hunter did nothing wrong to take the money and run. But his Vice President father was not supposed to use his position to land his son a lucrative job in a corrupt Ukrainian energy company. Turns out that Hunter’s business partners, Devon Archer, was convicted of defrauding the Oglala Sioux Tribe in a fraudulent $60 million bond scandal. Archer used the cash for his own piggy bank not the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
Hunter was cornered Oct. 15, 2019 on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” asked whether it was a good idea in hindsight to take a $183,000 a month job at a corrupt Ukrainian energy company with the help of his father, former Vice President Joe Biden. Hunter told host Joy Behar that it was probably not a good idea. In that same interview, Hunter admitted that without his father he “probably” would not have gotten the job. So when you think about it, Hunter did nothing wrong taking a lucrative gig in which he made millions. It was Joe’s corruption and incredibly bad judgment that led to him to get Hunter the Burisma job. No elected official, certainly not a president or vice president, is supposed to enrich themselves or their family at the expense of the American people. Yet Joe dismisses what happened as “totally discredited.” Only the most partisan hack could say the Hunter story has been discredited.
Archer led an investment group to pressure the Wakpanni Lake Community Assn., a group connected to the Oglala Sioux Tribe, to issue $60 million in economic development bonds which Archer and his partners used to invest in their own businesses. Archer and defendants were convicted in U.S. District Court in New York’s Southern District June 28, 2018 of securities fraud. While Hunter was not one of the defendants convicted in this case, his named was used to con the Oglala Sioux into entering into the fraudulent bond scheme. Archer’s June 28, 2018 conviction was overturned by another federal judge later in 2018. Reinstating the conviction Oct. 7, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Second Court of Appeal in Manhattan reinstated Archer’s conviction Oct. 7, stating that the lower court “abused its discretion in vacating the judgment and granting a new trial,” stating that Archer knew about the scam.
Hunter’s association with Archer speaks volumes about his abysmal judgment, especially joining Archer on the Burisma Holding’s board to rake in million of dollars from 2014 to 2019 when he resigned to spare his father Joe embarrassment after he announced his run for president. But Joe’s attempt to say Hunter did nothing wrong doesn’t begin to acknowledge his role in corruption and self-dealing as Vice President for his own son. When 55-year-old former Ukrainian President Petroshenko had his former chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin look into Burisma Holdings for corruption, Joe intervened to prevent Hunter and Archer from getting snared in any wrongdoing. Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if Porshenko did not fire Shokin. Shokin was fired and Joe boasted about it at a Jan. 23, 2018 meeting of the Council of Foreign Relations, saying how he got Shokin fired.
No one in the mainstream press asks Joe any questions about his son Hunter, partly because he refuses to answer them, saying, “C’mon man.” Trump tried to bring the subject up at the Sept. 29 debate but Chris Wallace did everything to divert away from the topic. No nominee of a major party can refuse to answer simple questions without consequences. It bad enough that Joe won’t answer questions about “packing the court,” but certainly Hunter and Archer’s work on Burisma Holdings Board should be fair game. What kind of hypocrisy exists when the president is impeached over an alleged “quid pro quo” phone call with 41-year-old Ukrainian President Zolodymyr Zelensky when the Democrat Party nominee actually did engage in “quid pro quo” with Poroshenko to save his son Hunter? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) filed impeachment articles against Trump and said nothing about Joe.
Three weeks before the Nov. 3 presidential election, it’s high time that Biden answer some questions before voters go to the polls. IF Joe doesn’t answer questions, voters know that’s its own answer, refusing to come clean. Archer’s conviction raises some real eyebrows that Hunter’s business partner is a convicted felon with the press not able to ask any questions of Joe. Joe’s out there reciting Bob Woodward’s nonsense that Trump had a crystal ball back in January when there were only a few known Covid-19 cases and no deaths. Yet Woodward insisted in the strongest possible terms that Trump dropped the ball, didn’t level with the American public. Woodward and Democrats aren’t leveling with voters telling them they would have done things differently. Yes, under Joe Biden, China would still fly into the U.S. infecting more U.S. citizens like they did over the 2019 holidays.
