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Related: About this forumBiden Rips Giuliani's Nixed Trip To Ukraine: He Was Trying 'To Embarrass'
Former Vice President Joe Biden hit back at Rudy Giulianis recently nixed plan to travel to Ukraine to lobby for an investigation of the 2020 Democratic candidates son, Hunter Biden.
It is inappropriate, Biden told New Hampshires WMUR-TV for a report Tuesday. Unrelated to me, its just inappropriate to send your lawyer to a foreign government to try to get them to do something that has no bearing except to try to embarrass.
Giuliani, who is President Donald Trumps personal attorney, said Friday that he had canceled his planned visit to Ukraine, telling Fox News in a vaguely worded explanation that he feared walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president ― in some cases, enemies of the United States.
Trump and his supporters have criticized Hunter Bidens work from 2014 to about a year ago as a board member for Ukranian energy firm Burisma Holdings, which paid him up to $50,000 monthly, according to The New York Times. Joe Biden, during the final year of the Obama administration, advocated for the firing of Ukraines former prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, who was leading corruption probe of the company.
Despite conflict-of-interest concerns, there is no evidence Biden was doing his son a favor.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-rudy-giuliani-ukraine-investigation_n_5cdaf285e4b0f7ba48abf38a
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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(22,976 posts)Is it hubris, or weapons-grade stupidity? 45 mouths no collusion into any available hot mic, while his senile attorney plans a trip to Kiev. Genius!
My darker side suspects this, however: Giuliani was never really going to go to Ukraine. Just the announcement, and the stated reason investigating the investigation and some phony crap about dirt on Bidens son was all 45 wanted to put out into the tribal air, so Fox, Breitbart, et al would start spinning the lies that Biden got help from foreign powers, too and did the witch hunt actually start in Ukraine?
Bomb dropped, no actual trip necessary.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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(298,139 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden