Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, said in an interview Monday that he should not have taken a job on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.Host Dax Shepard said on his podcast, "Armchair Expert," that Hunter Biden was being accused of brokering deals with a Ukrainian oligarch and more, adding, "Certainly your behavior couldn’t have been above board for 15 years while your own desperation was raging."Shepard asked if there was any validity to some of the accusations regarding Biden's role on the Burisma board."Here’s the validity.The validity is that I should never have taken the board seat with Burisma.
That’s the validity of it," Biden said.HUNTER BIDEN CLAIMED HE DIDN'T 'STAND TO GAIN ANYTHING' IN CONTROVERSIAL BURISMA ROLE DESPITE MAKING MILLIONSHunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden walk on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, D.C.on Jan.
17, 2025.(Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Hunter Biden joined Burisma in April 2014 and, at the time, reportedly connected the firm with consulting firm Blue Star Strategies to help the natural gas company fight corruption charges in Ukraine.
During the time Hunter Biden was on the board of the company, his father Joe Biden was vice president and was running U.S.-Ukraine relations and policy for the Obama administration."It was not with Ukraine.Was not with a foreign government.
It was not with an oligarch," Hunter Biden told Shepard on Monday."I was public about going on the board.
I served on 14 other boards before that.I was chairman of the board of the US World Food Program, the largest humanitarian organization in the world.
I was vice chairman of the board of the largest railroad company in the world, which is the national passenger rail system, which is Amtrak.I was chairman of the board of the Truman National Security Project.
Chairman of the board of the Center for National Policy.""I was a professor of a...