Tom Brokaw calling out Joe-Hunter Biden’s corruption in 2008:
“Wasn’t it inappropriate for someone like you in the middle of all this to have your son collecting money from this big credit card company while you were on the floor protecting its interests?” pic.twitter.com/CORqFD6w1a
— Ibrahim (@ibrahimpols) October 5, 2019
Former vice president Joe Biden faces increased scrutiny on his son Hunter’s shady business deals in the Ukraine and China, but it’s not the first time the Bidens’ conflict of interest has caused problems in a presidential campaign.
More than a decade ago, Tom Brokaw asked Biden to his face about a different arrangement with a Delaware credit company called MBNA, which hired Hunter on a six-figure salary and paid then Sen. Joe Biden hundreds of thousands more in campaign contributions to win his favor.
“Tom Brokaw calling out Joe-Hunter Biden’s corruption in 2008: ‘Wasn’t it inappropriate for someone like you in the middle of all this to have your son collecting money from this big credit card company while you were on the floor protecting its interests?” Ibrahim posted to Twitter with a video of the exchange.
The video features Brokaw highlighting a Wall Street Journal story from August 25, 2008 that pointed out “Biden’s candidacy … is bringing new scrutiny to his family’s business dealings, especially those of his son Hunter, 38 years old.”
“That’s a reference to your son being hired right out of law school by a big company here in Delaware that’s in the credit card business, MBNA. He got about $100,000 a year, as I recall. You received $214,000 in campaign contributions from the company and from its employees,” Brokaw told Biden.
“At the same time, you were fighting for bankruptcy bill that MBNA really wanted to get passed through the Senate making it much tougher for everyone to file bankruptcy,” he continued. “Senator Obama was opposed to the bill. Among other things, you couldn’t in fact claim that you had a problem because of big medical bills. You voted against an amendment that would call for a warning on predatory lending. You also … opposed efforts to strengthen the protection of people in bankruptcy.
www.theamericanmirror.com/flashback-tom-brokaw-called-out-biden-corruption-in-2008/
I think we also need to include James Biden, Joe Biden’s brother, in the corruption and cronyism mix.
He was named as executive to a construction company that was awarded $1.5 billion in government contracts for affordable housing in Iraq even though James had no prior experience in construction while Joe Biden was point man for Iraq. Also mentions he was a partner in the hedge fund Ponzi scheme with Hunter Biden.
nypost.com/2012/10/23/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother/
Accuse your opponent of what you are doing. Joe Biden admits, on camera, to extorting the government of Ukraine to protect his son. And now he wants to accuse other people of wrongdoing for trying to re-start the investigation of the corruption.
Ukrainian MP confirms Joe Biden Sr made $900,000 from Burisma.
en.interfax.com.ua/news/press-conference/617936.html