I ask again...what does warrant an investigation? Do you think Hunter Biden being appointed to a board of a company in the Ukraine....which he has no experience with...that deals in natural gas...which he has no experience with...APPEARS to smell bad when his father is the Vice President and has been put in charge of overseeing things in the Ukraine?
I'm a common sense kind of person, Colfax. I find it hard to swallow that Burisma put someone on their board that wasn't from the Ukraine...had no experience with the energy sector...and to top it off...was a recovering cocaine addict that got kicked out of the Navy for failing a drug test! What you're asking me to accept is that Burisma put Biden on the board because he was qualified...and he obviously WASN'T!
Sure. I know what you mean. Biden almost certainly doesn’t belong on that board.
Say Burisma put him there just to make themselves look good. Look important. Look like they’re closer aligned to western powers. Basically be a mantlepiece or a figurehead. Think Charlton Heston as president of the NRA in his late 70s.
Say all that’s true. That’s not illegal. It’s a bad look, but it’s not illegal.
It’s illegal if Biden was asked by Burisma to get something from our government. It has to be a quid pro quo. Biden gets his board position. Burisma gets something in return from our government. Yes, everyone points towards the firing of Shokin, but there has to be some reason to believe that was done because Burisma wanted it and that desire was communicated to Biden.
There is nothing to make anyone believe that is what happened. In fact, as testimony has shown, the firing of Shokin wasn’t done because of Burisma. It wasn’t because of Biden. It was because the State Dept officials thought it was in the best interests of the United States who then sent their recommendation to Obama and it was approved. Nothing sinister about it.