Joe Biden engaged in an unfortunate exchange with an Iowa Voter, who said he is not a Republican.  The voter suggested that Biden had been influence peddling by landing his son, Hunter, a plumb job at corrupt Ukrainian utility, Burisma.  Hunter was clearly not qualified.  Joe extricated himself by yelling at and insulting the voter.

A voter at a campaign event in Iowa got into a spat with Joe Biden on Thursday in an exchange that had the Democratic 2020 hopeful slamming the man as a “damn liar” and seeming to call him “fat”, which had conservatives leaping up to attack the candidate.

The man in the audience took the microphone and described himself as an 84-year-old retired farmer, then argued that Biden is too old to be president and pressed him on his son’s business activities in Ukraine, saying the former vice-president had “sent” Hunter to the country to work with an energy company.

Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Biden and the 2016 election, while holding up US military aid for Ukraine’s defense against Russia, is at the heart of the congressional impeachment inquiry.

Biden’s son Hunter used to be on the board of a private Ukrainian gas company, Burisma. The voter at the event in New Hampton, Iowa, who declined to give his name when questioned immediately afterwards by reporters, challenged Biden on the integrity of the business arrangement when he was Barack Obama’s vice-president… [emphasis added]

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Here is a video clip showing the incident and a brief discussion of it.

Joe Biden to voter: You’re a damn liar, man

 

One of the journalists compared Biden’s anger with Pelosi’s, when accused of hating Trump.  The comparison is not valid, because Pelosi’s anger included an explanation.  Biden’s did not.  It came with a denial an insult.

First, please be assured that I am not attacking Joe Biden.  I hope that, if enough people repeat advice similar to mine, he’ll follow it.

Until Biden defuses this issue himself, Republicans will keep bringing it up over and over again.  Skilled fascist propagandists from the Republican Reich will be far fiercer opponents than that poor farmer.  Biden’s only chance is for the public to know the whole story before that happens.

I think Biden had nothing to do with placing Hunter at Burisma.  I think he knew Burisma offered Hunter the job, only because he was Biden’s son.  I think Biden knew Hunter was not qualified and voiced his disapproval.  However, because Hunter is an adult, he couldn’t stop him.  If that is the truth  Biden needs to publish it far and wide, even if it means embarrassing his son.

If that isn’t the truth, he needs to reveal what is.  But for the sake of his candidacy, the Party, and the nation, he needs to come clean.

RESIST!!