More on Biden Covering For His Son

Hot Air's article, "Biden 2018: You’re Damn Right I Ordered The US-Aid-Money Code Red On Ukraine Prosecutor Going After Son’s Company," takes note of the CFR video where Biden brags about forcing the Ukraine to fire a prosecutor. The article also confirms that the prosecutor was investigating the company for which Biden's son was working:

      Note well that Biden leaves out the context of what the prosecutor was investigating at the time of Biden’s insistence on getting him fired. He was quarterbacking a corruption probe targeting Burisma, which was paying Hunter Biden a fortune ($50,000 a month at the time). In fact, it seems a little weird without that context as to why foreign aid to Ukraine depended on the person filling a state prosecutor’s office at all. What foreign-policy interest would the identity of a state prosecutor — an internal affair — have involved that would derail a billion-dollar aid package to an ally in desperate need of the cash?

      And yet, here was Biden bragging last year that “son of a bitch, he got fired” — after Biden explicitly used the authority of his office and the president’s to get rid of the man looking into his son’s employer. ...

See also "Joe Biden's Son Hunter Contradicted Father's Claim They Never Discussed Ukraine Deal" at PJ Media.