Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Burisma Corruption Allegations
Joe Biden recounts a 2016 confrontation in Kiev where he threatened to withhold a billion-dollar loan guarantee unless the Ukrainian state prosecutor was fired. Allegations surface regarding Hunter Biden's role on the board of Burisma and financial links to Zolchevsky and MetaBiota. Hunter Biden acknowledges his family name likely influenced his board appointments but denies involvement in any criminal conspiracy.
joe biden· hunter biden· burisma· viktor shokin· petro poroshenko· metabiota· ukraine
00:00 And I went over, I guess the 12th, 13th time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't. So they said they had it, they walked out to the press conference and said, no, I said, we're not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority, you're not the president. The president said, I said, call him. I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars. I said, you're not getting a billion. I'm going to be leaving here, I think it was what, six hours? I looked, I said, I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. Got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid.
00:53 and One of the largest shareholders of MetaBiota was Zolchevsky, who was the chairman of the board of Burisma, which was paying Hunter, who shared a bank account with Biden. So of course the Democrats want more tax money because then they can just give out more DOD contracts and get the kickback, right? I mean, why does Joe Biden have six houses or however many houses he has if he's been making $175,000 a year as a senator? In the list that you gave me of the reasons why you're on
01:33 that board, you did not list the fact that you were the son of the vice president. Of course. Yeah, no. What role do you think that played? I think that it is impossible for me to be on any of the boards that I just mentioned without saying that I'm the son of the vice president of the United States. If your last name wasn't Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma? I don't know. I don't know. Probably not. I don't think that there's a lot of things that would have happened in my life that if my last name wasn't Biden. Do you regret being on the board to begin with? No, I don't regret being on the board. What I regret is not taking into account that there would be a Rudy Giuliani
02:12 and a president of the United States that would be listening to this ridiculous conspiracy idea. I don't know what he was doing. I know he was on the board. I found out he was on the board after he was on the board, and that was it. And there's nobody... Well, you've had a lot of time. Isn't this something you want to get to the bottom of? No, because I trust my son. There's not gonna be a President Donald Trump. That's not gonna happen. Donald Trump will not become President!
