Biden: Trump is "the definition of corruption" (VIDEO added) [View all]

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Last edited Fri Oct 4, 2019, 10:02 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-daily-trail-markers-joe-biden-pushes-back-on-trumps-claims/

Joe Biden rebutted allegations Friday that his son Hunter Biden's presence on the board of a Ukrainian energy company when the older Biden was vice president represented a conflict of interest.

"It's not a conflict of interest. There has been no indication of any conflict of interest from Ukraine or anywhere else. Period. I'm not going to respond to that," Biden said when asked by CBS News Campaign Reporter Bo Erickson.

When Erickson pressed Biden if he's worried about the appearance of a conflict of interest, Biden jabbed his finger and said, "Focus on this man! What he is doing – what no president has ever done. No president."

This full-throated defense of Hunter Biden's connection to Ukraine is the first time in two weeks Joe Biden has directly responded to the allegations from the White House on the issue. Mr. Trump is currently the subject of an impeachment inquiry stemming from a July phone call in which he asked the Ukrainian president to investigate Hunter Biden but has tried to turn attention back to former vice president and his family.

In a brief statement ahead of taking questions, Biden said, "All this talk by the president about corruption comes from the most corrupt president we've had in modern history. He's the definition of corruption." Biden also said Mr. Trump is worried he could beat him "like a drum."

When asked about the Ukraine issue over the past two weeks, Biden cited the lack of evidence behind the president's claims as reason to not believe them. In Nevada this week he also ripped into the president's character and said "abuse of power is the defining characteristic of the Trump presidency."

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Emphasis added.

Reporters need to stop playing the 2020 version of "But her emails!"

That's the game Trump wants them to play.

And as long as it works, even a little, Trump will smear any of our candidates, no matter how little evidence there is for the smears.


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Editing to add video of Biden saying this and more. The video is in a tweet from MSNBC's Kyle Griffin:

Link to tweet

Biden: "He's the definition of corruption. He has corrupted the agencies of government ... I am not going to stand for it. And I'm not going to respond. I'm not going to talk about anything other than what the facts are. He's indicted himself by his own statements."
Via The Hill

The video clip with the tweet is 46 seconds long, with much more than what's quoted in the text of the tweet.

Very forceful statement. Especially what he said about Trump corrupting the agencies of government.