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SunSeeker

(51,740 posts)
1. Hunter Biden did not work for any government, unlike the Trump spawn, Hunter sat on a private Board.
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 09:14 PM
Feb 2020

Burisma Holdings has operated in the Ukrainian natural gas market since 2002. It is one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burisma_Holdings

crickets

(25,986 posts)
4. Exactly. Ukraine government said themselves that Burisma as a private entity
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 12:23 PM
Feb 2020

was free to pay its board members as they saw fit. There was nothing illegal in the way Hunter Biden was paid or in the amount that was paid to him. It's all BS.

Calista241

(5,586 posts)
3. The counter to this is that Trump's kids (excluding Ivanka) work for a family business.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 08:13 AM
Feb 2020

They worked there before Trump was President (assuming they actually perform work), and they’ll work there afterward.

Hunter Biden got that job because of who his dad was and what he did. This kind of nepotism should be what the Democratic Party is 100% against.

SunSeeker

(51,740 posts)
8. OFFS. The Trump kids are the very definition of nepotism. Their dad gave them their jobs.
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 12:30 PM
Feb 2020


Look up nepotism, Calista241. Here, I'll do it for you. Nepotism means "the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs."

Nepotism is exactly how Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka and Jared got their jobs, they were hired by their DAD/father-in-law.

Joe Biden didn't hire Hunter. Hunter got a job on the board of a private company on his own. They hired him because of his name, no doubt, but not because Joe Biden suggested they do so. Joe Biden has no connection or ownership stake in Burisma.

Like many US boards who put astronauts, athletes and celebrities on their boards, the Burisma board wanted to up its International cache by having famous names on its board. Burisma also put top Mitt Romney presidential campaign adviser Joseph Cofer Black, who publicly goes by “Cofer Black,” on its board of directors, obviously to appeal to both parties and cover all bases, while Hunter Biden was also serving on the board. Cofer Black is still on the Burisma board, Hunter quit. In addition to the son of a vice president and a special adviser to a GOP presidential candidate, the board also boasts the former president of Poland from 1995 to 2005, Aleksander Kwaśniewski.

Trading on your name may be unsavory but it's not nepotism.

Oh, and the Trump Organization is not a "family business." It's the criminal enterprise of Donald J. Trump. His children are his co-conspirators that he hired.


malaise

(269,200 posts)
7. This cretin has two tricks
Fri Feb 7, 2020, 12:27 PM
Feb 2020

Lying and projection - accuse everyone else of what you and yours are doing and lie lie lie and then lie some more

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