Working in private sector in corporate America, I am required to complete about a dozen compliance and ethics training classes every year. There are classes on insider trading, conflicts of interest, sexual harassment, ethics, anti-bribery, inclusion, price fixing, bid rigging, intellectual property, and on and on. These classes are necessary to keep employees from running afoul of the myriad of laws passed by the United States Congress to eliminate corruption in the business world. Employees are warned to avoid anything that might even have the appearance of a conflict of interest, at the risk of termination.
Strangely enough (/sarcasm), there are almost no laws on the books to regulate the conduct of our elected officials. If the son of a corporate CEO landed a no-show job at a Chinese supplier to his company, people would go to jail. Period. But if the Vice President of the United States can get his drug-addicted load of a son an $80K/month do-nothing job at a Ukrainian oil company, a country where he is responsible for setting US policy — no problem! (That is a bit of an exaggeration… during the shampeachment trial numerous witnesses testified that Hunter’s position in Burisma was “problematic” and raised eyebrows within the Obama administration. But no one put a stop to it.)
Joe Biden keeps repeating he never did anything wrong. This is a bald-faced lie. What Joe Biden did was a betrayal of the public trust, and highly unethical and immoral. However, it may well not have been technically illegal. It certainly will never be thoroughly investigated. And while the Bidens appear to have been particularly brazen with their corruption, it certainly isn’t uncommon in the DC Swamp. Rules for thee, but not for me.