So, this has been covered, but is worth emphasizing:
Let’s start with Hunter Biden. In April 2014, he became a director of Burisma, the largest natural-gas producer in Ukraine. He had no prior experience in the gas industry, nor with Ukrainian regulatory affairs, his ostensible purview at Burisma. He did have one priceless qualification: His unique position as the son of the vice president of the United States, newborn Ukraine’s most crucial ally.
Pretty clear. It may not be illegal, but it is corrupt influence-peddling.
Lots of people get upset at me for saying the problem with Biden, Sr., and many others, is how they prioritize family…
Recently, Hunter Biden told The New Yorker that “the decisions that I made were the right decisions for my family and for me.”
Yeah. Self-dealing and making sure your family is rich, even though they have no qualifications, is exactly corruption. Exactly.
This family worship among public servants, politicians, and even corporate officers has to end. When you’re in a position of trust, your salary and your self is all that your family should get out of it. Not a cushy goddamn job for which they are in no way qualified.
This stuff is rampant in DC and elsewhere. A ton of corruption is semi-hidden. The politician doesn’t seem to take a lot of money, but their husband or wife, or their kids and their friends, well, they’re well taken care of.
This is a large part of how routine “in-office” corruption happens. After office, of course, those who play the game are given low, seven figure salaries, but before that, they wash it through the family.
Give me bachelors and spinsters every day. Give me people estranged from their families.
Your family love is your biz, but should have nothing to do with your public service.
And because corporations have the rights they do because they are supposed to be acting in the public interest, that applies to corporations as well.
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