The credibility of the United States was not helped by the news that, since May 2014, Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter had been on the board of directors of Burisma, Zlochevsky’s company. The White House insisted the position was a private matter for Hunter Biden, and unrelated to his father’s job, but that is not how anyone I spoke to in Ukraine interpreted it. Hunter Biden is an undistinguished corporate lawyer with no previous Ukraine experience. Why then would a Ukrainian tycoon hire him?
