Hunter Biden was Involved with the World Food Program that just received the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Nevilledog]

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#HunterBiden was the head of the World Food Program that just received the Nobel Peace Prize.

While trump’s sons were slaughtering endangered species and stealing from charities, #JoeBiden’s son works to feed the hungry.
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This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme for its "efforts to combat hunger" and its "contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas." https://cnn.it/3iOo5WS

Edit: changed title for more accuracy. Hunter Biden was Chairman of World Food Program USA from approximately 2013-2019.

[onethatcares]

1. OH Boy,

the atmosphere better be prepared for the twitter burn up when the conguy gets the news. This one might push him over the edge..

[dianaredwing]

64. what edge?

He's been in free fall for some time now. He's just to high to get it.

[Grins]

2. Gee. ANOTHER Nobel to someone not-named "Trump"!

Boy, is that ever going to fry his chestnuts!

[onetexan]

54. LOL chestnuts

[malaise]

3. Please send this to the Killa Con's twitter feed

[GoneOffShore]

68. I may be late, but I'm off to do that.

[malaise]

70. It's never too late if you piss him off

[GoneOffShore]

71. True dat!

[In_The_Wind]

4. Thanks for my 1st big smile of today.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. How nice and how wonderful. Not to spoil their moment of victory in what is a

constant onslaught of feeding the hungry across the whole world, Hunter Biden and his dad must be very proud of his efforts and this also must be especially galling to rump and family, in their faces galling.

[The Magistrate]

6. That Is So Unfair To Lil' Donnie, Ma'am

Will there never be reckoning?

[mr_lebowski]

7. Has anyone confirmed the substance of this tweet? Just wondering ... (nt)

[Nevilledog]

8. He was the past Chairman, hence the WAS not IS

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Not seeing it on Hunter Biden's wikipedia article nor the World Food Program article

Are you thinking the WFP USA is exactly the UN WORLD Food Program?

[MFGsunny]

33. From link below, looks like WFP USA back in 2014 at least.

https://www.wfpusa.org/multimedia/msnbc-interview-with-wfp-usa-chairman-hunter-biden-about-the-2014-live-below-the-line-challenge/#

[rlegro]

27. Also note:

Hunter Biden formerly was chair of the World Food Program USA, not the international program that won the Nobel Peace Prize this week. Just to be accurate.

[Spazito]

60. World Food Program USA IS an arm of the UN World Food Program....

so it is very much a part of the international program that won the Nobel Peace Prize this week. Just to be accurate.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Apparently he is a former chairman...

Link to tweet

[GoCubsGo]

16. Yeah, his name doesn't even come up in the linked article.

They're saying that one of my former governors, David Weasely...I mean Beasley was the "chief" of the organization. No mention of Hunter Biden.

[rlegro]

43. Beasley is the executive director of the UN's international World Food Programme

...while Hunter Biden was former chair of the USA program, listed in that job for its 2011 annual report. He continued on as a board member through 2016. The USA program with bipartisan political support is important to the international program because a lot of public and private resources in the USA are funneled into the international program. Of course the Peace Prize went to the entire international organization, not a person, and its overall efforts and those of its partners in recent years were cited. But it's not really relevant to compare Beasley to Biden in reference to the food program.

[LuvNewcastle]

9. From what I've seen, Hunter Biden is a good guy.

It's a shame what's being done to him by Trump and others.

[Wounded Bear]

14. "Hunter Biden is a good guy." That's why TrumpCo is attacking him...

they always attack people that they think make them look bad.

Fact is, they don't really need any help looking bad.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. To be accurate, he was chair of the board of the World Food Program USA.

[mr_lebowski]

15. Thank you ... and do we know the timeframe on that VO? nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. 2014, not sure how long he had the job.

[mr_lebowski]

19. Awesome, thx ...

So most likely the prize was not awarded for work done while he was in a position of authority.

If not, that makes this news in general, well ... a little less exciting to me.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. He was chair at least as far back as 2013

I.e., their website has a clip of his interview with Mrs. Greenspan from back in 2013 - https://www.wfpusa.org/multimedia/hunter-and-beau-biden-discuss-wfp-usas-live-below-the-line-challenge-with-msnbcs-andrea-mitchell/

[Nevilledog]

22. Picture from gettyimages is 2016

[mr_lebowski]

26. Are these awards given for a specific time period?

I just want to know if I can go honestly crowing on the facebook's that this was, in any remotely substantive way, a Nobel Prize shared by Hunter Biden ... and not end up looking dumb later

[Nevilledog]

29. I think to be safe you can say he was involved as Chairman of this organization.

Poster below says timeframe was 2013-2019.

Quite frankly, contrasting Hunter's involvement with this program in any way beats stealing money from a children's cancer charity.....lol

[mr_lebowski]

32. 2019!!?! Cool!!!

And yeah it does.

One more thing ... wasn't Trump nominated for some type of Nobel Prize recently? Was he also in competition for this particular Prize? I know there's a few different Nobel Prizes, so ...

[Nevilledog]

36. I changed title of OP.

For accuracy you should add he was Chairman of World Food Program USA.

Yeah...dickhead was nominated. This spells out the circumstances:

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/trumps-nobel-nonsense/

[mr_lebowski]

49. Thx ND :) nt

[Princess Turandot]

50. He was chair from 2011-2015. He then stayed on the board for 2 more years See my post #42 below.

[Princess Turandot]

42. Here you go: Biden's timing at the organization, from the WFP annual reports:

He began the role in 2011, and is listed as Chairman in their 2011 annual report. See the board list on page 14:
https://www.wfpusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/WFP_USA_Annual_Report_2011.pdf

He is also shown as the chair in the 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 reports. (See the collection of the annual reports shown here. Just scroll down a bit:
https://www.wfpusa.org/about-us/financial-information/annual-reports/)

In 2016, there was new chair, but Biden is still listed as a board member. He continued on the Board in 2017. He is no longer listed as a member in 2018.

The 2010 report is the earliest available on the webpage linked above. However, it does not list the trustees in the report, as the subsequent reports do. So, it's not clear if he was already on the board when he was named the chair.

Also, it's not at all uncommon for chair-persons of organizations to serve a fixed term. He was the role for 5 years. It's perfectly reasonable for him to have rotated out at that point.

[UnderThisLaw]

45. Wow. That's going to upset the people in this thread who don't want to believe it's true.

[mr_lebowski]

46. Some people like to understand facts and details ... and others don't much care.

Just the way people are.

I really don't think anyone on DU 'doesn't want to believe it's true'.

[UnderThisLaw]

56. I really believe that some people here aren't really Democrats

[mr_lebowski]

57. Yup, I'm sure 'some people here' are indeed not.

It's kinda the nature of public internet forums.

Welcome to DU, btw

[mr_lebowski]

47. Awesome, thanks!!! nt

[LymphocyteLover]

53. He was chair as recently as 2016

see the photo here
https://t.co/Xnw1leLHFy?amp=1

[SleeplessinSoCal]

61. I see no reference to this on his Wikipedia page.

Who edits that?

[ananda]

12. OMG, I just got goosebumps!

And he looks like the spittin image of my dad
at that age.

[yellowcanine]

13. More evidence of a plot against the orange popsicle!

[Martin Eden]

17. Damn Commie, giving away food!

Those starving people need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, even if they're barefoot!

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Just as a note - Randy Russell is the current Chair (I think someone had also posted above)

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https://www.wfpusa.org/people/russell-randy/

I think Hunter either left or his term was up, in 2017. So Hunter's work going back to at least 2013 until 2019 is what helped the organization to win that award.

ETA - It was until 2017 - here was their press release for when the current chair came in - https://www.wfpusa.org/news-release/world-food-program-usa-expands-board/

[Leghorn21]

23. A tweeter has an honest question:

Yeah, but can he scarf down 24 hotdogs while watching a
teenage beauty pageant????

Link to tweet

OPEN WIDE, LOSERZZZZZ

[ffr]

25. The face of leadership

The Biden's are public servants. They are awesome!

[Garion_55]

28. But trump still gets his two, right?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. I'm sure that bit of news will piss the dotard off.

[matt819]

31. Change the OP title

This isn’t true.

Another DUer noted that he is the board chair of the world food program USA.

But i don’t see his name there either.

Someone please clarify.

[Nevilledog]

37. I changed title to involved.

[BumRushDaShow]

40. He is not currently chair but he WAS a past chair for a few years

[IronLionZion]

34. He was chairman of the board for WFP USA a few years back

[Norbert]

35. Get Ready for a 4 year investigation of the World Food Programme

by the T(rump)OP.

[avebury]

38. Everytime that Trump mentions Hunter the response should be

Are you talking about the former Chairman on the Nobel Peace prize winner WFP USA? That Hunter Biden?

Trump's head will explode if he ever figures this out.

[Vinca]

39. This is super delicious icing on the cake.

[GeorgeGist]

41. Oh, the burn is delicious.

Did the Committee do it on purpose?

[TygrBright]

44. OMG, the SCANDAL!!! n/t

[calimary]

48. Well, that just kicked another leg out from under the donald.

The anti-hunger group Hunter Biden led until recently just won the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, 'eh?

Isn't that the one you wanted, donald? Didn't you have yourself nominated for it?

One of your preferred punching bags just punched YOU out.

Hunter Biden just ate your lunch, donald.

[Texin]

51. tRump just blew another gasket. If he had any gaskets remaining.

[Jarqui]

52. Case Closed. Arrest him. He didn't put children in cages!

[elleng]

55. This is SO good,

as is HE, known by his family but few of us.

[FakeNoose]

58. The delicious irony - this has made my day!

[AllaN01Bear]

59. egscllent . cue donald trump twitter temper tantrum. (omg, it rhimes ) gah.

[Brainfodder]

62. Can we get some equal scrutiny of Eric and Jr. please?

For the laughs of course....

[TheFarseer]

63. I saw on the internet

Hunter and the Governor of Moscow ate all the food so the poor people couldn't have any. Don Jr only hunted the endangered species to give to the poor people for food and stole from bad the charities to give to the good charities like Robin Hood would do - and Jesus.

[Cha]

65. #HunterBiden was the head of the World Food Program that just received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rt TY Hunter Biden!

[SunSeeker]

66. K & R

[ailsagirl]

67. That's wonderful!!

[MustLoveBeagles]

69. K&R

Wonderful news