Hunter Biden used cushy Burisma gig to fund his crack cocaine addiction: podcast

Hunter Biden acknowledged in a new interview that his lucrative board appointments, including one at Ukrainian energy company Burisma, helped finance his crack cocaine addiction. “I never went broke,” Biden boasted on the “Dopey” podcast, after describing a two-month-long bender at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, Calif., where the former first son said he tried to “go out with a bang.” “Dopey” host Dave Manheim asked Biden how he was able to “scrape the money together” for the cocaine and prostitutes and private bungalows at the luxurious Chateau Marmont. “Well, I still had the residual.Like for instance, I still was on the board of Burisma,” Biden explained.  Biden earned up to $1 million per year ($50,000 per month) from 2014 to 2019 to serve on the Burisma board, despite having no relevant energy industry experience.During Joe Biden’s presidency, Republican lawmakers probed the first son’s involvement with Burisma as part of a sprawling investigation into an alleged Biden family influence-peddling operation. As vice president, Joe Biden supported Ukraine’s natural gas industry after Hunter quietly joined Burisma in April 2014.

Hunter’s infamous abandoned laptop also showed that his father met with a Burisma executive at a Washington, DC dinner a year later. On the “Dopey” podcast, Hunter was adamant that he was qualified for the Burisma job and said he wasn’t “running some kind of international crime syndicate.” “What people don’t understand about Burisma is that I went on the board of Burisma because I had been on the board of about 14 other major national and international organizations,” he claimed.“I was chairman of the board of the UN World Food Program, which is the largest humanitarian organization in the world – we increased the budget when I was chairman from $1.8 billion to $2.6 billion when I was there.” Hunter went on and on and on about his cushy board gigs. “I was the vice chairma...