In a new interview, Hunter Biden said that while he may have shown “poor judgment” in using his famous last name to advance his career, he had not broken the law
There’s Hunter. Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images After laying low for weeks as President Trump and right-wing allies have assailed him over his ties to a Ukrainian energy company, Hunter Biden directly defended himself in an interview on ABC News. In it, he said that while he may have shown “poor judgment” in using his famous last name to advance his career, he had not broken the law.
Hunter, whose turbulent personal life has put him in the spotlight before, has come under fire for serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, which paid him as much as $50,000 a month — even though he is not known to possess great energy expertise. “I don’t think there’s a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn’t Biden,” he allowed. But he said that he possessed as much knowledge, if not more, than the other members of the board.
Commentators from across the political spectrum have found fault with Hunter’s name-trading in Ukraine. But Trump and his allies have gone well beyond such criticisms; they allege that Joe Biden used his clout to order the firing of a prosecutor because he had been in the process of investigating Hunter. No evidence has emerged to back up that claim, which of course has done nothing to keep the president from advancing it as he faces his own Ukraine-related mess.
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