Joe Biden has been using pay for play to help Hunter for decades

 Hunter getting cushy deals from foreign countries is only new in that it involves pay for play with US foreign policy. For decades Joe Biden was "nice" to people who gave his son lots of money.

Right out of college in 1996 MBNA, a credit card company, gave Hunter a job as a senior VP earning >$100K a year and with an undisclosed signing bonus. At the time MBNA was Joe Biden's biggest contributor; giving $214,000. They wanted Joe to change bankruptcy laws so that people couldn't write off credit card debt as easily.  Interestingly a senior executive at MBNA bought Joe Biden's house for $200K above its market value.  

MBNA got its moneys worth because Joe Biden sponsored and got the votes to pass the Bankruptcy Prevention Act.

When asked about Hunter's cushy job in 2008 Joe said that Hunter deserved the job because he graduated from Yale.  Remember back in the 1990s $100K a year was far more than what even most highly skilled college graduates would get.

In 1998 Hunter moved on to a job paying over $100K in Bill Clinton's Commerce Department. It's a matter of public record that Hunter got the job after Joe's close associate William Oldaker talked to Commerce Secretary William Daley, who surprise surprise had worked no Joe's presidential campaign saying that Hunter would be great at Commerce.  Apparently Hunter's lack of knowledge about e-commerce didn't limit his ability to be "executive director of e-commerce policy coordination"

Side note why were our taxes paying someone >$100K a year back in 1998 to not make or define e-commerce policy but to just coordinate it?  Sounds like a job a high school graduate could handle.

In 2001 Hunter moved on and joined Oldaker in a new lobbying shop in DC.  Apparently in DC having a Senators son lobbying folks in government isn't considered problematic. One of the contracts Hunter had was for St. Joseph's University. A person related to the contract said in an interview that Hunter had “a very strong last name that really paid off in terms of our lobbying efforts.”.

Hunter had dinner with a private prison lobbyist who was doing business with a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that Joe Biden was chairing in direct violation of Senate rules.  But since Hunter was a Democrat nothing happens.

In 2003, while still working for Oldaker, Hunter lobbied for Joe's alma mater and other Biden constituents for earmarks, Senators adding money into spending bills earmarked for people they liked or who paid them off.  That meant that Hunter submitted these requests for taxpayer dollars to his dad, Joe's, office.

To read the full story on to the present check out this great Federalist article: Joe Biden's Boosters Financed His Prodigal Son's Entire Career.

What's really interesting is that Hunter Biden admits that this article is true.  Even better Hunter has admitted, on TV, that he wouldn't have gotten the job at corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma if he wasn't Joe Biden's son:

"If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would've been asked to be on the board of Burisma?"


"I don't know. I don't know. Probably not, in retrospect," Biden, a lawyer and international consultant, answered. "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."

So there you have it. Hunter Biden saying that Burisma wouldn't have paid him millions of dollars if his dad wasn't Joe Biden.

No wonder Hunter has gone into hiding now that emails that conclusively show that Joe knew what Hunter was up to and met with at least one Burisma executive have shown up.

And it's also clear why the #FakeNewsMedia who had no trouble trusting that the Steele dossier--paid for by Hillary, complied by a foreigner, and which most of the content was provided by a possible Russian spy--was highly reliable are saying that emails found on a computer which Hunter Biden's lawyer has said is his can't be trusted.