Like Rockfish says,I'm not particularly enthused about the fact that Hunter Biden has (likely) chosen to trade on his father's name,but Trump is (as usual) trying to revise History and preaching STUPID to the stupid and lazy element of his base. He has likely convinced the average Trumpster that Hunter Biden was somehow "born with a silver spoon in his mouth" which (falsely) feeds into his us vs Elites (except MY family,of course) narrative that the stupids swallow whole hog...
The truth is that when Hunter (and Beau,his older brother) were born, Joe Biden was a small town lawyer. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970,the same year Hunter was born. Despite being the "Black sheep" of the family, Hunter does have a law degree from Yale,and I'd venture to say he is at least as Intelligent as any of the Trumps (Don,Jr and Eric) or GWB- all of whom were born into far more privilege than Biden or any of his offspring. He is an accomplished lawyer,who has been in consulting and was hired by Americans within Burisma,not Zlochevsky himself.They didn't just hire Hunter,they hired his consulting firm,including his partner Devin Archer who was in the photo circulated by Trump Inc. In fact ALL 4 of the folks in that pic are Americans,but it resonates more with the stupids to label the 4th American as "Ukranian Gas Co Executive" instead of American (Capitalist) Businessman...
Hunter was actually hired by Burisma Holdings (for their corporate legal Dept) in 2014,and his job was to rehabilitate the Company's image abroad. The fact that he didn't speak Ukranian or have experience in "gas" is basically irrelevant. He joined other Americans on the board and his main job was to travel Europe and attend conferences on Burisma's behalf as a consultant.He actually comes off sounding pretty accomplished and experienced in the press release which announced his hiring,and he has an Undergrad degree from Georgetown in addition to his law degree from Yale. Certainly as qualified as Ivanka,Jr or Eric to do whatever it is they do...
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5980032-Burisma-Announces-Hunter-Biden-s-Appointment-to.html
Nothing points to Joe being instrumental in Hunter being hired,certainly no influence peddling on Joe's part. Kids trade off their father's name all the time,doesn't mean the father (or son) for that matter have done anything wrong or even worthy of investigation. The same folks complaining about the optics in this case have no issue with trump's shredding of the emoluments clause, or the overnight stays in Trump properties from various govt entities...
And we know that Biden didn't press for Shokin to be fired because Shokin was actually investigating Burisma. Had Biden violated official policy and not gone after Shokin,THAT would be evidence of corruption since neutral observers all felt that Shokin was coddling Burisma. When you enable Trump's lies and attempts to revise history by trying to smear (Joe) Biden for doing the job he was appointed to do, then you're basically encouraging Trump to continue to lie and obfuscate the facts to further his own goals.Trump has made a living out of lying and slandering people to camouflage his own shady dealings and endemic corruption,so in principal I'm opposed to letting him get away with it here...