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@QuinHillyer @SykesCharlie @monacharenEPPC @theabstoddard @JimSwiftDC @JVLast @BillKristol @GeorgeWill @fmtalk1065 @CalebHowe @roddreher @DouthatNYT @jimantle @politico 1/ Regarding Biden's son: No evidence of corruption has ever been found⁠—here’s what actually happened: In May
2014, Hunter Biden took a board seat on Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings. He was reportedly paid $50,000 per month. Burisma had ties to Ukraine’s

@QuinHillyer @SykesCharlie @monacharenEPPC @theabstoddard @JimSwiftDC @JVLast @BillKristol @GeorgeWill @fmtalk1065 @CalebHowe @roddreher @DouthatNYT @jimantle @politico 2/ previous president Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted from office. As vice president, Joe Biden was tasked with reducing corruption in Ukraine after Yanukovych⁠—eventually charged with “mass killing of civilians”⁠— exiled himself to Crimea amid threats of civil war.

@QuinHillyer @SykesCharlie @monacharenEPPC @theabstoddard @JimSwiftDC @JVLast @BillKristol @GeorgeWill @fmtalk1065 @CalebHowe @roddreher @DouthatNYT @jimantle @politico 3/ The overlap between the vice president and his son raised concerns over a potential conflict of interest. The Obama White House said there was no issue with Hunter Biden’s work, and that no conflict of interest existed.
In 2016, and with the support of other world leaders, Joe

@QuinHillyer @SykesCharlie @monacharenEPPC @theabstoddard @JimSwiftDC @JVLast @BillKristol @GeorgeWill @fmtalk1065 @CalebHowe @roddreher @DouthatNYT @jimantle @politico 4/ Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion of U.S. aid unless Ukraine’s leaders fired the country’s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, for being too soft on corruption⁠⁠—which they did. Before Shokin was fired, he had been conducting an investigation of Burisma, and Hunter Biden

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Hunter Biden stepped down from his Burisma board seat in April 2019. He had been offered another term but refused because it could possibly hurt

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From Forbes article: forbes.com/sites/lisettev…