Pam Bondi, in a methodical presentation Monday at President Trump's Senate impeachment trial, took the fight directly to Hunter Biden -- underscoring, again and again, how even media outlets with a left-wing "bias" questioned the younger Biden's lucrative service on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings while his father oversaw Ukraine policy as vice president.
A 2014 Washington Post report, Bondi noted, asserted that the "appointment of the vice president's son to a Ukrainian oil board looks nepotistic at best, nefarious at worst."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-s-soft-power/
A 2014 Buzzfeed News article stated that the "serious conflict of interest questions" were raised by Biden's appointment.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...n-to-ukrainian
A June 2019 ABC News report called it "strange" that Burisma, which was widely accused of corruption, had agreed to pay Hunter Biden's company "more than a million dollars a year," just after Biden was kicked out of the Navy allegedly for cocaine possession.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bid...daria-kaleniuk
Her point-by-point argument came on the second day of Republican arguments, which also emphasized that Trump was not accused of any defined criminal offense and that removal from office would be an undemocratic and drastic remedy. Fox News has been told that Trump's team is likely to wrap up its defense Tuesday, possibly kicking off the written question phase of the trial at that time.
It was little doubt given all the media attention, Bondi went on, that career
State Department official George Kent flagged Biden's apparent conflict of interest, but was told essentially not to bother the vice president's office -- or that the Obama administration had prepped former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch for questions about Burisma ahead of her Senate confirmation.
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