Vice President Mike Pence echoed the sentiments from President Trump when he stated that former Vice President Joe Biden’s ties to Ukraine are “worth looking into” on Thursday afternoon.
Biden’s ties to Ukraine have garnered renewed scrutiny following the revelation that Trump requested Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate him and his son Hunter. The younger Biden was on the board of a gas company in Ukraine that faced allegations of corruption, though he was never implicated in any wrongdoing. Biden, while vice president, urged Ukraine to fire the prosecutor who was investigating his son’s company.
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“But one of the main reasons we were elected to Washington, D.C., was to drain the swamp. And I think the American people have a right to know if the vice president of the United States or his family profited from his position as vice president during the last administration. That’s about looking backwards and understanding what really happened,” Pence began.
He continued, “I mean, the fact that my predecessor had a son who was paid $50,000 a month to be on a Ukrainian board at the time that Vice President Biden was leading the Obama administration’s efforts in Ukraine, I think, is worth looking into. And the president made it very clear that he believes our other nations around the world should look into it as well.”
Pence proceeded to highlight the fact that there was no explicit quid pro quo in Trump’s conversation with Zelensky.
