The Democrats’ witch hunt against President Trump has backfired on Adam Schiff and hit Joe Biden.

Diplomat tells investigators he raised alarms in 2015 about Hunter Biden’s Ukraine work but was rebuffed https://t.co/7AqWMfOJ7q — John Dickerson (@jdickerson) October 18, 2019

The Washington Post reported this morning, that deputy assistant secretary of state George Kent testified yesterday that “he had raised concerns in early 2015 about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company but was turned away by a Biden staffer.”

Kent was “worried that Hunter Biden’s position at the firm Burisma Holdings would complicate efforts by U.S. diplomats to convey to Ukrainian officials the importance of avoiding conflicts of interest.”

The Post continued “Kent said he had concerns that Ukrainian officials would view Hunter Biden as a conduit for currying influence with his father, said the people. But when Kent raised the issue with Biden’s office, he was told the then-vice president didn’t have the ‘bandwidth’ to deal with the issue.”

Outrageous.

Hunter Biden had no experience in Ukraine or with natural gas, yet he was the son of the Vice President, thus making him the perfect candidate for the board of Burisma.

As Hunter Biden readily admitted earlier this week, he would “probably not” be on any foreign boards if his father was not the VP.

And regarding Biden rebuffing the efforts of a career State Department official, this is a pattern with Joe Biden. Earlier this year, The New Yorker reported the following:

“When I asked members of Biden’s staff whether they discussed their concerns with the Vice-President, several of them said that they had been too intimidated to do so. ‘Everyone who works for him has been screamed at,’ a former adviser told me. Others said that they were wary of hurting his feelings. One business associate told me that Biden, during difficult conversations about his family, ‘got deeply melancholy, which, to me, is more painful than if someone yelled and screamed at me. It’s like you’ve hurt him terribly. That was always my fear, that I would be really touching a very fragile part of him.’”

Stop the Madness. Quid Pro Joe Biden needs to come clean about why he ignored alarms that were raised about the clear conflict of interest with his son’s work in Ukraine.

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