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Inside Hunter Biden's Dealings With Shadowy Foreign Firms
https://web.archive.org/web/20191010165405/https://www.zerohedge.com/political/inside-hunter-bidens-dealings-shadowy-foreign-firms
Hunter Biden is the ultimate fail-son, or black sheep.
For those who are unfamiliar with the term, it has emerged in recent years to describe the spoiled, sloppy and clumsily power-hungry offspring of powerful individuals. Hunter Biden is more infamous for his often drug-fueled antics, and the brief and embarrassingly public romance he shared with his deceased brother's widow, than he is for being a successful businessman. But now his business career has been exposed for what it truly is: Foreign players hoping to use the younger Biden as a backdoor connection to the White House, and the American political elite.
Often, Biden dropped hints about how these connections could be useful, though there's not much of a record of him actually using his connections (that is, actually being useful) on his employer's behalf (which doesn't mean it didn't happen).
According to the FT, Biden's business interests "often show up in unexpected places." While Democrats obviously prefer to focus on their impeachment investigation, there's no denying that Biden's business dealings in Ukraine, China and elsewhere clearly raise questions about potential conflicts that existed while his father was in office. Joe Biden has denied wrongdoing, but questions linger over his role in the ouster of a top Ukrainian prosecutor, which some have suggested was done to help protect Hunter.
When Hunter joined the Navy Reserves in May 2013, he required several waivers (at 42, he was above the age of enlistment, and there was an unspecified 'drug-related' incident that also would have disqualified him).
Despite his apparent eagerness to join, Biden was discharged from the Navy the following year after testing positive for cocaine. Soon after, his more successful older brother, Beau, passed away, and his wife Kathleen filed for divorce, citing Hunter's "spending extravagantly on his own interests including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations."
Next, he started dating his brother's widow.
But in between trips to rehab and legendary drug benders. In 2016, shortly after he started dating Hallie Biden, Beau's widow, Hunter made plans to stay at a detox center in Arizona. But he somehow got sidetracked during a stopover in Los Angeles, and ended up missing the next wing of his flight. Instead, he traveled to Skid Row, where he was reportedly held up at gun point, but nevertheless apparently succeeded in buying and using crack, causing him to return several times over the following days. Eventually, Hunter Biden took a Hertz rental car to his treatment center in Arizona, but workers at the Hertz office called the police after finding a crack pipe and baggie of crack, along with Biden's license and a badge from Beau's time as Delaware AG.
Prosecutors declined to pursue the case, claiming a lack of evidence, but it definitely wasn't a good look for Hunter. More recently, Hunter has been in the headlines for his whirlwind marriage to a South African Instagram model, and for a paternity suit brought by a woman claiming Hunter is the father of her newborn son.
Of course, none of these transgressions have stopped Biden from earning millions of dollars off his family name and connections. In Wednesday's issue, the FT published a breakdown of Biden's foreign business interests.