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Of all the Lawyers in the World, Burisma Holdings picked Hunter Biden to lead its Legal Department

Of all the Lawyers in the World, Burisma Holdings picked Hunter Biden to lead its Legal Department

Three months after Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy Reserve for testing positive for cocaine, Burisma Holdings hired the son of then Vice President Biden to join its board and be in charge of its legal department. Just let that sink in! Burisma Holdings, Ukraine’s largest private oil and gas producer, selected a lawyer from the United States with a well-documented drug problem and no energy industry experience, to be in charge of its legal department.

Hunter Biden was selected for commission as a reserve officer in 2012 through the Direct Commission Officer Program. In June 2013 Hunter was given a drug test that tested positive for cocaine. Prior military experience was not required for Hunter to be selected for the Direct Commission Officer Program. According to the outline, the DCO program selects a diversity of applicants (enlisted and civilian) whose superior performance indicates they are the best qualified for the program. So how did Hunter Biden make the grade? Where was the evidence of his “superior performance” demonstrating he was the best qualified to become a reserve officer in the Navy Reserve? What were the factors the Navy Reserve weighed to conclude Hunter Biden was the best of the best?

Honest people know exactly how and why Hunter Biden was selected for the Direct Commission Officer Program, and it had nothing whatsoever to do with merit. Hunter Biden was selected for this program for the same reasons he was hired by Burisma Holdings – his father Joe Biden was the Vice President of the United States.

With the announcement of an impeachment inquiry this past week, Democrats and the liberal press have been busy pushing the narrative that there is no evidence connecting Joe Biden to Hunter’s business dealings. They gave up on the I have never discussed business with my son Hunter line Joe Biden had been holding for years. The evidence to the contrary became too obvious to ignore even for liberal evidence deniers. When it comes to what liberal members of Congress like Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) and Representative Jamie Raskin (MD-8), both lawyers, will accept as evidence connecting Joe Biden to Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings, circumstantial evidence will not suffice.

We have Americans sitting in prisons across the nation based on circumstantial evidence. Circumstantial evidence is evidence not bearing directly on the fact in dispute but instead on an attendant circumstance, such as the defendant’s blood type or shoe size, from which the judge or jury might infer the occurrence of the fact in dispute. Liberals don’t want circumstantial evidence connecting Joe Biden to Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings to gain a foothold in the liberal news cycle so they just keep denying that it exists.

Why was Burisma Holdings paying $83,333 per month to Hunter Biden? Why did Burisma Holdings select Hunter Biden to be in charge of its legal department when it was public knowledge Hunter was struggling terribly with a drug addiction?

In February 2014, the Ukraine government was unraveling. Russia moved into Crimea. President Barrack Obama made Vice President Joe Biden the point man for Western Allies in Ukraine. Within two months of becoming the point man, Hunter Biden, along with his business partner Devin Archer, are hired by Burisma Holdings. Under normal scrutiny this is circumstantial evidence of the Vice President abusing his power and using his public office for private gain.  

The liberals scoff. They say this proves nothing. It might be unethical. It might look bad. But to liberals, it’s certainly not evidence of Joe Biden giving Burisma Holdings, through Hunter, insider information beneficial to business planning and the bottom line. They say there’s no wink and a nod. They want voters to believe Burisma Holdings was paying Hunter Biden $1 million annually absent any access, influence, or insider information from Vice President Biden.

The liberals also refuse to connect Hunter Biden’s meritless hiring by Burisma with his text message to his daughter Naomi in January 2019. Hunter wrote, “I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.” This is circumstantial evidence too. When looked at next to Hunter’s unwarranted and suspiciously timed appointment to the Burisma Holdings board two months after his father became the point man for all things Ukraine, a healthy curiosity should arise.

There is evidence Joe Biden kept Hunter informed concerning the Vice President’s meetings with Ukrainian leaders. According to the New York Post, Then-Vice President Biden emailed Hunter under the aliases “Robin Ware,” “Robert L. Peters” and “JRB Ware” between 2014 and 2016, keeping his son abreast of scheduled talks with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Kyiv Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, among other communications The Post first revealed in 2021.

If this evidence was compiled against a Republican, the dots which are in a straight line, would have already been easily connected. Hunter gets appointed to the Burisma Holdings Board of Directors and is put in charge of Burisma’s legal department. He’s kept in the loop regarding U.S. policy towards Ukraine. He has access to the Vice President of the United States which Burisma Holdings hopes will serve as a safeguard against unwanted scrutiny, and even turn into profitable insider information. Hunter pays the family bills. He gives “pop” half his salary.

Just these few pieces of circumstantial evidence, when looked at together, make it reasonable to suspect that Joe Biden used his public office for his, and his family’s private gain. It looks like insider trading, just without the stocks.

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