Joe Biden asserted that his family is free from any wrongdoing and accused President Trump of trying to “hijack an election.”
“There’s nothing anybody in my family did wrong … at all,” Biden said at a fundraiser with a few dozen donors in San Marino, California, according to a pool report.
Biden also said at the fundraiser that Trump is trying to “hijack an election,” referencing a whistleblower complaint about a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump suggested that Ukraine look into the Bidens.
“He’d like to get foreign help to win elections,” Biden said.
Biden cited a Washington Post interview with former Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuri Lutsenko published Thursday to back up his claim that there has not been “one shred of evidence” or wrongdoing.
“From the perspective of Ukrainian legislation, he did not violate anything,” Lutsenko said in the interview.
In 2014, while he was vice president, Biden took a leading role in U.S. policy toward Ukraine. Also in 2014, his son Hunter Biden joined the board of Ukrainian private gas company, where he was reportedly paid up to $50,000 per month.
Biden, in late 2015, threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees from Ukraine unless officials fired a Ukrainian prosecutor who wanted to investigate the gas company. The prosecutor was accused of turning a blind eye to corruption.
Hunter Biden, 49, has also been open about drug and alcohol abuse. Hunter sad he was once sold crack when trying to buy cocaine but didn’t have a pipe to smoke it from, and rolled the crack up in a cigarette, but said that “it didn’t have much of an effect.”
A police report in Arizona alleged that days before the 2016 election, Hunter returned a rental car that contained a cocaine pipe “approximately 3-4 inches long” and a “white powdery substance” in the car.
