{"id":397148,"date":"2021-04-07T17:28:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=397148"},"modified":"2021-04-07T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:28:49","slug":"hunter-biden-seems-to-justify-his-ukrainian-paycheck-by-saying-he-was-fighting-trumps-buddy-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-seems-to-justify-his-ukrainian-paycheck-by-saying-he-was-fighting-trumps-buddy-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden Seems To Justify His Ukrainian Paycheck By Saying He Was Fighting Trump\u2019s Buddy Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhunter-biden-seems-to-justify-his-ukrainian-paycheck-by-saying-he-was-fighting-trumps-buddy-putin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=397148&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-816.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Hunter Biden\u2019s memoir, billed as a recovered drug addict\u2019s acceptance of his mistakes and journey to inner peace, is instead laced with partisan rage, displaying a seething hatred for Republicans who he continues to blame for his problems.<\/p>\n<p>Just days after he had last used crack, the son of the president viewed the prospect of leadership by those with different preferred policy positions as more frightening than a soulless life of depravity, saying Donald Trump\u2019s reelection is what he \u201cfeared most,\u201d constituting a \u201cthreat to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The son of the now-president had been criticized for taking a lucrative position on the board of Ukranian gas company Burisma while his vice-president father was deeply involved in the affairs of that country, where corruption is rampant. Burisma proudly put a picture of Joe Biden on its <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/hunter-bidens-business-partner-asks-him-to-remove-joe-bidens-photo-from-ukraine-energy-firm-website\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter admits that his five-figure-a-month board fees were \u201ca major enabler during my steepest skid into addiction\u201d that allowed him to \u201cspend recklessly, dangerously, destructively,\u201d including using cocaine on a Burisma board trip.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he justifies his actions with partisan rhetoric, saying that \u201cBurisma was opposed to the direct interests of the most dangerous person in the world\u2014Vladimir Putin,\u201d and still thinks it was unfair for Republicans to question his big-money international deals.<\/p>\n<p>In his world, opposition to Republicans seems to justify everything else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was going to pick a side\u2014and if I was going to get paid to pick a side\u2014I\u2019d choose the same way again, rather than back the person President Trump has sided with,\u201d he writes, saying a company official told him, \u201cYou can get paid by the Russians or the people who are fighting them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think if any of the Trump children ever tried to get a job outside of their father\u2019s business that his name wouldn\u2019t figure into the calculation? My response has always been to work harder so that my accomplishments stand on their own,\u201d he writes, even while detailing how he laid on the couch for days with a jerry-rigged bottle of vodka propped to his mouth, or spent his days lounging by the pool while going to the bathroom to smoke crack every fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n<p>An email involving another potential business scheme involving China said that \u201cH,\u201d or Hunter, would get 20% and also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harris-gov-cuomo-other-top-democrats-listed-as-key-domestic-contacts-in-alleged-hunter-biden-email-exchange\">hold 10% for \u201cthe big guy,\u201d<\/a> which a participant on the email thread, Tony Bobulinski, has said referred to Joe Biden. Hunter simply says comments by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani questioning the propriety of the arrangement were part of the \u201cup-is-down, self-dealing universe cooked up for political and personal gain by Trump and Giuliani and their circle of bandits,\u201d part of \u201cthe ever-swelling club of Trump\u2019s conspiratorial delusions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the elder Biden \u201cbeat back a vile man with a vile mission,\u201d Hunter writes, and \u201cI became the beneficiary of the absurdity and transparent criminality of my pursuers. \u2026 Every bogus whistleblower, out-of-context email, salacious photograph or video clip (manufactured or real), made me feel nearly invincible to their slings and arrows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Partisanship superseding morality and being more important than other aspects of life appears to be a recurring theme in Hunter\u2019s memoir \u201cBeautiful Things,\u201d which was released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Decades ago, former Senator Mike Mansfield taught Joe Biden an important lesson, Hunter writes: \u201cyou can question a colleague\u2019s judgment, whether it be a Democrat or a Republican, but you should never question his or her motives. Everybody comes to the Senate for a reason, he went on, but nobody comes for the sole purpose of being mean-spirited or un-American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that no longer applies now, the president\u2019s son writes. \u201cTrump\u2019s motives can and should be questioned because, hell, most of the time he flat-out states them. And take my word, those motives ain\u2019t pretty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Joe Biden joined the Barack Obama ticket in 2008, the family believed he would be the \u201cmost influential vice president ever\u2014that is, if you discount Dick Cheney, who had the advantage of manipulating his commander in chief,\u201d Hunter writes \u2014 before detailing how Joe Biden repeatedly shouted \u201cGoddammit!\u201d when his attempts to influence the Obama administration were thwarted by other advisers.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter calls Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz \u201csomeone once arrested for driving under the influence in his daddy\u2019s BMW, and who later had the charges mysteriously dropped.\u201d However, he sneers that it is \u201cridiculous\u201d to speculate that his own connections played a role in a dropped investigation against him when Arizona police found&nbsp;paraphernalia in a rental car alongside a Secret Service card and his brother\u2019s attorney general badge.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter\u2019s inability to decide whether to take responsibility for his actions or skirt the details and blame Republicans is a fatal flaw for an addiction memoir, as well as possibly for his sobriety. Letting go of resentments and being honest about one\u2019s mistakes is a key part of twelve-step programs.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter writes that \u201cThe greatest value to being in rehab is the opportunity to be honest with yourself and\u201d others, but that in his attempts, \u201cit almost felt like I was playacting\u2014performing a facsimile of my story rather than confessing it.\u201d It\u2019s not clear that anything had changed by the time he wrote the book.<\/p>\n<p>He \u201chad become resistant to traditional twelve-step-based rehabilitation\u2014or too burned out on it, or too proficient at gaming it\u2014for that method alone to seem like much use. It had worked for me for extended periods in the past, and there\u2019s much about it I believe is invaluable\u2014I still employ many of its tenets to stay sober,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p>Some of his attempts an an alternative approach to sobriety simply consisted of taking other drugs. \u201cI was certain that my getting clean depended on more than just being told addiction is a disease and that it requires 100 percent abstinence,\u201d he says, detailing how one rehab in Mexico consisted of taking the hallucinogen ibogaine, which is illegal in the U.S., and another entailed doing DMT, a drug derived from the glands of a toad.<\/p>\n<p>After he drove the rental car to the treatment center in Arizona where the police found paraphernalia, he simply abstained from crack for a week and then left to go to a resort spa, proclaiming himself \u201cphysically and mentally purged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is billed as his final cure consists of meeting a South African woman on a blind date, saying he loved her within minutes, and then getting married to her a week later.<\/p>\n<p>But a world in which those with different political priorities are perceived as \u201cvile\u201d \u201cbandits\u201d to be crushed is not so far off from the one he inhabited not long before, when his crack-addled roommate Bicycles believed that a serial killer was hiding in the walls.<\/p>\n<p>And in a world like that, lasting serenity could be hard to find.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hunter-biden-homeless-crackhead-bicycle\">Hunter Biden Was \u2018Odd Couple\u2019 Roommates With Crackhead Mother of 7 Named \u2018Bicycle\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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