Besides getting paid a stupid amount every month, Hunter is also being accused of getting some huge amount of money. The "proof" however, despite having specifics on all transactions up until that point, has none for the payments that are supposed to have gone to Hunter. But anyone that believes in conspiracies will believe it was a big payment. They want to believe that.. So, they just need the appearance.
I think there's proof of payments. But Biden and Archer were running a private equity firm. They were accepting investments from all over the place. Yeah, it's shady, but the way they are dividing a few payments (which were likely deposits), by however many months he was on the board, and then implying it was actually a salary going straight to his pocket is also shady.
There was a variety of things about the Shoken stuff that bothered me for a long time.. Then I finally realized what it was and other things seemed to come together. Why did they think Shoken was corrupt and yet why has there been no "proof". Even just some rough statement. Granted he apparently didn't do anything.. to anyone.. in all his time.. but we'll ignore that.
Shoken was basically working for Russia. He was only prosecuting people who protested in favor of Ukrainian independence and protecting those who were in support of Yanukovych (Ukrainian President who received billions in bribes from Russia while he was in office, Ukraine flipped out when he decided not to sign the agreement to join the EU - which obviously Putin would've hated to happen).
Probably the most well known shitty thing he did was block the prosecution of the pro-Russia shooters who killed a bunch of protestors . (I think it was called the Maiden Massacre).
There's also news articles from 2015-16, it was very clear that the guy was corrupt, and those who wanted Ukraine to be independent wanted him gone. I haven't seen Biden mentioned anywhere.
Remember, all of this went down within a year or two of Ukraine literally overthrowing their corrupt president who was in Putins pocket.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/eu-hails-sacking-of-ukraine-s-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-1.2591190https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/media-prosecutor-general-shokin-submits-resignation-408228.html?cn-reloaded=1https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/6016%2Cstop-the-appointment-of-shokinhttps://www.unian.info/society/1170127-auto-maidan-protesters-arrived-at-poroshenkos-residence-demanding-shokins-resignation-photos.htmltldr;
Hunter shady? Yeah, probably.
But it seems like Joe Biden was probably exaggerating the roll he played in Shokin getting the boot.
And it seems pretty unlikely that his son had anything to do with Shokin getting the boot.