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struggle4progress

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Sat Sep 28, 2019, 04:53 PM Sep 2019

False claims about Hunter Biden's China dealings


By Glenn Kessler
September 26

... we will stipulate that any child of a prominent politician needs to be wary of even the appearance of a conflict of interest between his or her business interests and their parent’s political position. Hunter Biden, as detailed in a New Yorker profile published in July, has had a checkered life and yet has managed to score business deals in countries — in particular Ukraine and China — that might not have materialized without the prominence of his father.

Similarly, Ivanka Trump was granted Chinese trademarks days before and after President Trump vowed to save jobs at ZTE, a major Chinese telecom, in 2018. She also was granted Chinese trademarks in 2017, on the same day she sat next to Chinese President Xi Jinping at a dinner ...

“To date, Mr. Biden has not received any return or compensation on account of this investment or his position on the board of directors,” Mesires told The Fact Checker after Trump’s remarks with Zelensky. “The characterization of Mr. Biden as owning a $1.5 billion private equity firm funded by the Chinese, or suggesting that Mr. Biden has earned millions of dollars from the firm is a gross misrepresentation of Mr. Biden’s role with BHR” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/26/trumps-false-claims-about-hunter-bidens-china-dealings/
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False claims about Hunter Biden's China dealings (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2019 OP
Can't Hunter Biden sue Benedict Donald for libel or slander?! Seems a law suite would stop this uponit7771 Sep 2019 #1
We'd do better to point out Ivanka trading on Daddy's position day in and day out struggle4progress Sep 2019 #2
Tried to say this here yesterday and cilla4progress Sep 2019 #3
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