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AP Interview: Ex-Polish president defends Biden and Burisma
Source: Associated Press
AP Interview: Ex-Polish president defends Biden and Burisma
By VANESSA GERA
November 28, 2019
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former Polish president who is on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, said Thursday that Hunter Biden was indeed chosen to join its advisory board because of his name. He said that is simply how the world of business works.
But Kwasniewski (kvash-NYEF-skee) insisted in an interview with The Associated Press that Biden was an active board member who helped the company, and that he never used his relationship with his father, Joe Biden, to further the companys interests.
I understand that if someone asks me to be part of some project its not only because Im so good, its also because I am Kwasniewski and I am a former president of Poland, he said. And this is all inter-connected. No-names are a nobody. Being Biden is not bad. Its a good name.
Kwasniewski also said Burisma members never tried to use Hunter Biden to curry favor with the administration of Barack Obama when Joe Biden was vice president.
He was a normal member of this group, he said. We didnt ask him and he never said anything about his father.
-snip-
By VANESSA GERA
November 28, 2019
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former Polish president who is on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, said Thursday that Hunter Biden was indeed chosen to join its advisory board because of his name. He said that is simply how the world of business works.
But Kwasniewski (kvash-NYEF-skee) insisted in an interview with The Associated Press that Biden was an active board member who helped the company, and that he never used his relationship with his father, Joe Biden, to further the companys interests.
I understand that if someone asks me to be part of some project its not only because Im so good, its also because I am Kwasniewski and I am a former president of Poland, he said. And this is all inter-connected. No-names are a nobody. Being Biden is not bad. Its a good name.
Kwasniewski also said Burisma members never tried to use Hunter Biden to curry favor with the administration of Barack Obama when Joe Biden was vice president.
He was a normal member of this group, he said. We didnt ask him and he never said anything about his father.
-snip-
Read more: https://apnews.com/37424b8a0a994c1a935c5831643a84e3
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AP Interview: Ex-Polish president defends Biden and Burisma (Original Post)
Eugene
Nov 2019
OP
Sounds reasonable enough. Kwasniewski sounds like a straight shooter the way he says this.
Lucky Luciano
Nov 2019
#3
Thekaspervote
(32,755 posts)1. Thx for posting!
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,150 posts)2. Mahalo, Eugene.. Former President Kwasniewskik(thanks for stepping up!)..
sounds like one of the good guys!
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Lucky Luciano
(11,253 posts)3. Sounds reasonable enough. Kwasniewski sounds like a straight shooter the way he says this.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)4. I think many people don't really know what a Board of Directors does
Lots of times companies pick what are called celebrity board members. A person doesn't have to have knowledge of the particular business to sit on a board. Also many different skills can be used. For example a Yale graduate lawyer in a high powered law firm (Boies Schiller Flexner ..yes that Boies as in David Boies ).
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden