BIDEN: A little history helps

At age 43, Hunter Biden received an age waiver for a direct commission into the U.S. Navy Reserve. He also received a second Navy waiver for a prior drug-related incident.

Hunter Biden received direct commission in May 2013. The following month, in June 2013, the young Biden tested positive for cocaine and was subsequently discharged from the Navy.

Hunter Biden obtained positions in the U.S. Department of Commerce, was a lobbyist, worked at a bank holding company and was appointed as director of AMTRAK. After his father, Joe Biden became vice president, the young Biden became a venture capitalist which fit in nicely with his father being the Obama point-person in Ukraine and China. Not only was his salary of $50,000 per month from Burisma (a Ukraine energy company) unusually high, his position allowed him to funnel Ukrainian and Chinese money into his venture-capital firm. Maybe as much as $3.4 million from Ukraine and perhaps more from China.

Burisma, the firm that Hunter Biden served on as a director, was under scrutiny by the Ukrainian office of NABU (much like our FBI) as early as 2014 when Biden became a director. This money laundering investigation continued into early 2019, all the while young Biden sat on the board of directors. This was well before a telephone conversation between the president of Ukraine and President Trump.

FRED EBEL

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