Joe Biden isn’t giving up on his friendship with Sen. Lindsey Graham despite the South Carolina Republican criticizing his son and being a close ally of President Trump.
“It is hurtful, particularly when guys like Lindsey Graham, who is a friend of mine, do these things,” the 2020 Democrat said Thursday on The View about Graham’s attacks on his son Hunter.
“He’s still a friend?” host Joe Behar responded. “Well, you know, look … I plan on being president. Presidents can’t hold grudges. You gotta heal,” Joe Biden said. “And I just don’t want to let myself get into the mood.”
Graham has attacked Hunter Biden for being on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father was still vice president.
“As to the Bidens, I can promise you no one has looked at whether or not there was a conflict of interest, and no one has taken the time to explain how Hunter Biden got rich in the Ukraine,” he said last month. “As much as I like Joe Biden, if it were Lindsey Graham or Mike Pence or Donald Trump, you would be looking.”
Hunter admitted in an interview last fall that his decision to join the board of Burisma was “poor judgment.” He went on to compare his position on the board to “a swamp in many ways.”
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