Fox News’s Bret Baier poured cold water on the report that during his time as vice president, Joe Biden was introduced to a Ukrainian businessman through his son, Hunter.
In a discussion about the New York Post’s bombshell report that was based on information found on a computer that allegedly belonged to the younger Biden, he said that the “whole thing is sketchy” and highlighted the Biden campaign’s denial of the story.
The computer, which was supposedly left at a computer repair store in Delaware and handed over to the FBI, reportedly included an email that discussed a previously undisclosed possible introduction between Joe Biden and Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma. This email, if verified, would appear to show the former vice president contradicting claims that he never discussed overseas business with his son.
“The Biden campaign says the meeting never happened. It wasn’t on the schedules, they say,” Baier said. “And the email itself says ‘set up’ for a meeting.”
He played a clip from an interview with Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, who obtained a copy of the hard drive and subsequently provided it to the New York Post.
The former New York City mayor appeared to contradict aspects of the story. Particularly, Giuliani said that Hunter Biden was in a “heavily inebriated state” when he dropped off the computer, but the New York Post reported that the store owner could not confirm who dropped off the device.
Giuliani has long sought to obtain dirt on the Bidens, even traveling to Ukraine in 2019, and played a key role in the situation that ultimately resulted in the president’s impeachment in the House and his acquittal in the Senate for urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate claims of corruption regarding the Bidens.
”Let’s say, not sugarcoat it. The whole thing is sketchy,” Baier said. “You couldn’t write this script, 19 days from an election, but we are digging into where this computer is and the emails and the authenticity of it.”
