Former vice president and presidential candidate Joe Biden told a crowd in Peterborough, New Hampshire, over the weekend that if fossil fuel executives don’t take accountability for helping to doom the environment, we should throw them in jail. [See videos after the jump]
In order to curb the rate of pollution, Biden explained, we need to hold fossil fuel executives “liable for what they have done, particularly in those cases where there are underserved neighborhoods.”
When they don’t deliver, Biden offered, “put them in jail.”
.@JoeBiden on fossil fuel execs: “We should put them in jail” for pollution pic.twitter.com/OLqZMwi4E5
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 29, 2019
Some spectators noted his obliviousness. Surely he didn’t forget that his son Hunter was on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company that was being investigated for corruption? I mean, it has been in the news lately.
“Does that include Hunter?” more than one social media user asked the former VP after his little speech.
Hunter’s work on Burisma reportedly prompted President Trump to ask Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to “look into” the Bidens’ relationship to Ukraine and to help root out corruption.
Also Biden: If we don’t stop using fossil fuels “we’re all dead” pic.twitter.com/SG4gHJtCTM
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 30, 2019
A whistleblower, however, charged that Trump was acting on behalf of his own personal, political interests because the investigation could adversely affect the campaign of one of his fiercest 2020 rivals.
The whistleblower complaint prompted the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry against Trump, and a few tense hearings and partisan votes later the House voted to impeach him on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is currently withholding those articles from the Senate.
Biden also borrowed a line from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to declare that if we don’t stop using fossil fuels for energy, “we’re all dead.”
Read more at Townhall
Radical leftists and their tired scare tactics, gloom and doom, they only want power and if they really want to jail oil execs, Hunter Biden shoudl turn himself in TODAY!! Burisma was found to be doing criminal activity until Biden got the prosecutor fired (#QuidProJoe anyone?) Notice anytime Dems stand for something, its to hide what they are definately doing themselves!! #Trump2020
Biden is a idiot for saying we must end the use of Fossil Fuels its unreasonible and irresponsible but typical of a liberal democrat a member of the Stupid Jackass Party Joe Biden is Stupid
Hunter Biden unavailable for comment
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders may be bomb-throwers, but Joe Biden is simply bombed out. He represents that growing body of Democratic Presidential candidates who possess the remarkable ability to re-elect Donald Trump.
The call to jail oil executives reminds of the Nazis and Communists who jailed those who disagreed with them. This also ignores that it is the end consumer who is responsible for the use of a product, not the company that sells legal goods. Of course this also ignores the fact that there is no correlation to carbon dioxide levels and the earth’s temperature in recent times.
Biden and AOC should all be in jail right now them and the rest of their corupt crooked Democrat Party first we build a prison in the middle of nowhere and send them all to it starting with Obama
They are very much committed to political suicide.
The oil companies need to support the Biden’s of the world by refusing to fuel up their planes and vehicles. Joe the Pervert might be able to get a lift from the Amish and his security goons can help push the carriage up the hills.
Nailed it!
Fiddlesticks! Sure sounds like malarkey to me!