JOE BIDEN/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “A career State Department official told impeachment investigators this week that he raised concerns with a senior White House official in 2015 about the son of then-Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. holding a position on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. But the warning from George P. Kent, then a State Department officer stationed in Kiev, was not acted on, according to two people familiar with Mr. Kent’s testimony. Mr. Kent, now of the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, said he told the official that Hunter Biden’s position could look like a conflict of interest, given his father’s role, and would complicate American efforts to encourage Ukraine to clean up corruption. The White House official told Mr. Kent that the elder Mr. Biden did not have the ‘bandwidth’ to address the concerns while his older son, Beau, was undergoing cancer treatment, according to the people, who were not authorized to discuss the private deposition.”
–Nicholas Fandos, “Diplomat Told House Investigators He Raised Alarm About Hunter Biden in 2015,” The New York Times online, October 18, 2019