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So basically Joe Biden just accidentally made the case for why his son should serve jail time.
The fact that Hunter Biden held a position on the board of Burisma while his father served as vice president has created controversy. Reuters reported in October that in addition to him receiving a big monthly paycheck, Burisma paid $3.4 million to Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC, a company led by Devon Archer, Hunter’s business partner.
Joe Biden says he would put fossil fuel executives “in jail”
Would that include his son, Hunter, who sat on the board of a fossil fuel & natural gas company?
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— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 30, 2019
Biden Has Extreme Climate Change Positions
Biden has some extreme positions concerning climate change, including potentially cutting hundreds of thousands of blue collar jobs.
“The answer is yes,” the candidate said of potentially cutting “hundreds of thousands of blue collar workers in the interest transitioning to [a] greener economy” during a Democratic presidential debate in December.
“The answer is yes because the opportunity for those workers is to switch to high paying jobs,” Biden continued, as reported by The Daily Wire. “We should, in fact, be making sure right now that every new building built is energy contained, that it doesn’t leak energy, that in fact we should be providing tax credits for people to be able to make their homes turn to solar power.”
We should put them in jail!' Joe Biden wants to prosecute fossil fuel executives for environmental damage-but doesn't mention son Hunter who helped run Ukrainian natural gas giant | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/YDnDVc1JCd
— thewatcher (@banawedata) December 30, 2019
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“There are all kinds of folks — right here in California, we’re now on the verge of having batteries that are about the size of the top of this podium that you can store energy when in fact the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining,” Biden added. “We have enormous opportunities.”
The Intercept reported in September that Biden went to a fundraising event featuring by fossil fuel executive Andrew Goldman, who co-founded Houston, Texas-based natural gas company Western LNG,
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