Column: Matt Gaetz tosses rocks at Hunter Biden — from a glass house built by his dad (via latimesopinion)
I’m sure that like any recovering drug addict, Hunter Biden is full of regrets. Not just for the family wreckage caused by his addictions, but for his poor judgment in other aspects of his life.
It doesn’t take a genius to know that he took advantage of his father’s name and position as the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine when he was hired at a very high salary to join the board of a Ukrainian gas company in 2014. Or that Burisma was trying to use Hunter Biden to burnish its reputation and create an impression of ties to the U.S. government.“If your last name wasn’t Biden, do you think you would’ve been asked to be on the board of Burisma?” he was asked by ABC’s Amy Robach.
“Probably not, in retrospect,” Biden said. “But that’s — you know — I don’t think that there’s a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn’t Biden.”Whether it’s college admissions, sought-after internships or stellar business opportunities, having a famous last name will open doors that are closed to the rest of us.
This form of corruption — nepotism — can be benign. Or it can be very problematic, as it is in the case of Biden, who at the very least has given his father’s opponents some potent political ammunition.Hunter Biden, a Yale law graduate who had served on a number of nonprofit boards, may not have been qualified for a spot on the board of Burisma Holdings — even if the whole point of such a job is for appearance’s sake.
However, nothing he did comes remotely close to the nepotism practiced daily in the White House, where Trump’s daughter and son-in-law have been elevated to positions of power and authority simply by virtue of their relationship to him.
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