Questions continue to mount in the allegations surrounding the Biden-Ukraine corruption scandal.
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed last month that he never discussed business with his son, Hunter. “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden told Fox News. Joe Biden has denied any wrongdoing related to Ukraine.
Biden instead pointed the finger at President Trump. “I know Trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader. You should be looking at Trump.”
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in; I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden said as he recalled what he told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016.
“Well, son of a [expletive], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden continued.
Biden pressured Ukraine to fire the top prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings, Viktor Shokin.
He claims that there is a problem with Biden’s story because there are hundreds of pages of memos and documents. Many are from the American side of the legal team helping Burisma with their legal challenges, suggesting that there was more to Joe Biden’s denial about why he fired Shokin.
Hunter Biden’s business links in China and Ukraine have been highlighted repeatedly by Trump. On Sept. 20 he urged the media to look into Joe Biden’s remarks last year about how he pressured the Ukrainian government into firing the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, the Ukrainian Company for which Hunter Biden served as a board member.
“The very thing they are accusing President Trump of doing, Biden did, and admitted that he did, and I just go back to what is this all about,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said on Fox News last week.
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