This really isn't that hard to understand. Hunter Biden got that job that he was not qualified for because of who his father is. Was that illegal? No, it wasn't. Did it present a "conflict of interest and the appearance of impropriety" that the son of the Vice President who at the time was taking the lead on all matters Ukraine? Yes it did and it has been reported that even Obama himself posed the question to Joe Biden about his son working for Burisma and Biden told him that it "wouldn't be a problem".
Could the investigation into Hunter "prove" he did anything illegal or that Joe Biden was influenced in his decision making by his son having a job at Burisma? No it did not but then that's why one tries to eliminate these appearances of impropriety so people don't speculate and cause political if not legal problems.
Was it illegal for Joe Biden to invite his son Hunter along on Air Force two on a trip to China on which Hunter came back with a deal in his pocket with the Bank of China worth over 1 billion dollars? Apparently not. Did it look good? It did not.
https://apnews.com/article/election-...b51497b36fd523
Another State Department official, Amos Hochstein, is described in the report as having raised concerns directly to Biden because he was concerned Russians were using his son’s role with the company to sow disinformation. Biden did not take action, the report says.
The report says that though State Department officials regarded the head of the company, Mykola Zlochevsky, as corrupt, Biden did not confront him or link him to corruption.
“What the chairmen discovered during the course of this investigation is that the Obama administration knew that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board was problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine,” the report says.
Even so, the report acknowledges that the extent to which Hunter Biden’s board position affected Ukraine policy is “not clear.” It does not establish that specific policy decisions were influenced by Biden’s position.
In other words, though it looked shady as hell, no paper trial of any illegal activity could be found. Doesn't mean verbal deals weren't made.
Or how about Joe's brother James Biden landing a job he also had no qualifications for at Hillstone International which one month later landed a 1 1/2 billion deal to construct housing in war torn Iraq.
https://warroom.org/quid-pro-joe-biden-iraq/
Joe Biden’s track-record of wheeling and dealing is more than what journalists, congressional investigative bodies, and even President Trump have made of it.
How big is it?
Well, imagine if President Harry Truman, after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, used his political position to give his own family a multi-billion-dollar contract to rebuild cities in Japan.
It was in June of that year that HillStone International, a relatively new homebuilding concern, landed a $1,500,000,000 contract to build homes in Iraq.
Vice President Biden’s brother, James Biden, had landed an executive position at HillStone just months earlier.
To understand just how grave, how corrupt, how unseemly this is, consider the backdrop to Biden’s 2011 family deal-making.
Starting in 2009, just after then Vice President Biden took oversight of the Obama administration’s Iraq policy, the U.S. began to withdraw from a mangled Iraq.
The withdrawal, completed in 2011, only made things worse for the people of Iraq.
If the initial invasion broke their means of maintaining order and securing their own towns and families, the withdrawal went one, brutal step further.
Under Biden, the U.S. abandoned those vulnerable Iraqis while creating a power vacuum that aided their enemies–merciless Jihadist militants.
Over the coming months and years, much of Iraq was reduced to rubble.
Even as that tragedy began to unfold, one of its high architects, 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, had already found a way to enrich his family at the expense of the most vulnerable people of Iraq.
The Bidens denied it, but David Richter Jr, president of HillStone’s parent company Hill International, was very forthcoming about the value he saw in taking James Biden onboard as Executive Vice President of Hillstone’s housing development in November 2010.
According to a person who was present, Richter told a group of investors that it really helped to have “the brother of the vice president as a partner.”
In 2012, Richter’s father boasted to the Fox Business Network: “People who have important names tend to get in the door easier,” and even joked that if James Biden “had the name Obama he would get in the door easier.”
The same year, the New York Post’s Charles Gasparino reported on what he called a “good deal for [Hillstone International], a relative newcomer to building homes — and for James Biden, who as one partner will get a good share of that $1.5 billion.”
But by the beginning of 2014 the deal had already evaporated, and Irvin Richter, who could hardly contain his boasts about the deal just 14 months earlier, told the magazine Arabian Business that Hill had been “wrong” to enter into it.
Beyond that, Richter seemed to shrug off the whole thing, citing a lack of “experience” in the market. Today, Hill still has offices in Baghdad, and project management contracts–for sums in the low millions.
Again, I am no investigative journalist, but some enterprising reporter might do well to ask Joe Biden why the 2011 deal disappeared so quickly, almost as soon as his brother James had secured his “good share of that $1.5 billion.”
Right about now, I imagine you are saying something like "yeah but Trump is just as bad" but the point is, if you are a Biden supporter "you don't care about any of this" in much the same way the left accuses people who support Trump about not caring about such things.
It would seem that everybody in politics does things that look shady in enrich themselves and their family and friends and Joe Biden is no exception.
So before you get on that high horse and claim that Biden is some how different than Trump, take a good look at all the "appearances of impropriety" that surround Joe Biden and don't kid yourself that Joe Biden is a less corrupt man than Trump, he isn't but then you don't care do you?