White House communications director Kate Bedingfield attacked former President Donald Trump Wednesday after he asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to supply information on Hunter Biden’s business dealings, even as Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine.
Instead of declining to answer questions involving President Joe Biden’s son, as White House press secretary Jen Psaki has frequently done throughout his term, Bedingfield responded to a question from NBC News’s Kristen Welker on the subject with a question of her own.
“What kind of American, let alone an ex-president, thinks that this is the right time to enter into a scheme with Vladimir Putin and brag about his connections to Vladimir Putin?” she asked. “There was only one, and it’s Donald Trump.”
Trump’s comments came in an interview with Just the News that aired Tuesday evening.
Trump specifically referenced a 2020 report from the Senate Homeland Security and Finance committees claiming that in 2014, Elena Baturina, who was then the wife of Moscow’s mayor, paid $3.5 million to a company linked to Hunter Biden.
“She gave him $3.5 million, so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it,” he said. “I think we should know that answer.”
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