The Cloud Over Joe Biden's Son
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🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Is there something fishy about the way Hunter Biden made money while his father was serving as vice president? One reporter looked into it. But he didn’t find corruption. He found something far more complicated -- and commonplace.
Guest: Adam Entous, staff writer for the New Yorker. Read his piece on Hunter Biden.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone. |
| 0:07.0 | While the establishment pushes its manufactured Russia scandal, here on the next revolution, |
| 0:11.0 | we like to focus on actual scandals. |
| 0:14.0 | If you turn on Fox News in prime time, wait for Joe Biden to come up in conversation. |
| 0:19.0 | The chatter has a way of taking this turn, |
| 0:22.3 | to allegations of corruption. |
| 0:24.4 | Even as Joe runs for president, |
| 0:26.9 | the Biden family is profiting from helping |
| 0:30.1 | the authoritarian Chinese regime oppress its religious minorities. |
| 0:34.8 | Hashtag Joe China, spread the word. These allegations have been around for years. |
| 0:42.0 | This is actually an issue Joe Biden has been dealing with since 2014, but it's come up again |
| 0:47.2 | because he's now running for president. These are claims that Joe Biden's son Hunter has been |
| 0:52.3 | profiting off of the Biden name, doing business in China and the Ukraine, while his father shaped foreign policy. |
| 0:59.8 | So here you have Joe Biden who puts his family first in their pockets book first by a billion dollars going to his son, and Donald Trump puts America first. |
| 1:08.6 | This story's been especially sticky because Joe Biden spent years trying to avoid the |
| 1:13.5 | appearance of impropriety. |
| 1:15.3 | Early in his career, he even swore off stocks and bonds to avoid corporate influence. |
| 1:20.5 | Look, Sean, it's a case that is crying out to be investigated. |
| 1:25.5 | If it doesn't get investigated, we just don't have equal |
| 1:28.2 | justice in this country. Reporter Adam Entis wanted to figure out if the allegations against the |
| 1:34.0 | Biden family were true. When I was at the Wall Street Journal in 2014, you know, I spent a lot of |
| 1:40.5 | time reporting on the situation after Russia intervened in Ukraine. |
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