How does mainstream media continue to get this wrong OR are they just lying?

 



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PolitiFact - Fact-checking Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Ukraine
Editor's Note, Sept. 23, 2019: This story was first published May 9, 2019; we have since published additional coverage t
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How does mainstream media continue to get this wrong OR are they just lying? PolitiFact’s “Fact check” is far from being “Half True” and should at the very least be “Mostly True”. We also know from pictures and WhatsApp messages that Joe Biden’s claim of never talking to his son about his business dealings is 100% false.

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The episode involved his son Hunter Biden’s work on behalf of a Ukrainian energy company at a time when the elder Biden was vice president and a key figure in U.S. policy on Ukraine.

Hunter Biden did hold a directorship for a Ukrainian gas company while his father was vice president. Experts agree that Hunter Biden's acceptance of the position created a conflict of interest for his father. 

The position with Burisma came at a time when the younger Biden had joined with Christopher Heinz (the stepson of then-Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.) and Devon Archer (a Kerry family friend) in a string of investment and consulting firms. Firms run by Biden and Archer "pursued business with international entities that had a stake in American foreign policy decisions, sometimes in countries where connections implied political influence and protection," the New York Times reported.

The Biden campaign told PolitiFact that the vice president learned about his son's role on the board through media reports and never discussed anything related to this company with his son.

A year and a half later, the New York Times published an article that suggested that "the credibility of the vice president’s anti-corruption message may have been undermined" by Hunter Biden’s dealings with the company.

The post said Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion unless the prosecutor -- Shokin – was fired. Biden didn’t just make a threat to withhold aid unless Shokin was sacked -- it succeeded.

We found wide agreement among Ukraine policy experts that Hunter Biden’s decision to become a director for Burisma presented a serious conflict of interest.

The image gets individual pieces of this assertion right -- Hunter Biden was a director of the company, and Joe Biden did leverage U.S. aid to  fire a prosecutor.

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