Joe Biden dismissed Republican questions about his son Hunter Biden’s business entanglements as a “smear campaign” and suggested the possibility that the disclosure of documents allegedly belonging to young Biden was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
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“When you put the combination of Russia together, Giuliani, the president, is just what he is,” Biden said, referring to President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. “It is a smear campaign because it has nothing to talk about. What is it running on? What is it running on? “said the Democratic presidential candidate in an interview on CBS’s” 60 Minutes. “
The interview with the former vice president aired on Sunday, but took place on October 19, just as Trump began a week of posting unverified documents from a laptop that he and his allies allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden as evidence of an eager son. make money. your father’s name. He also accused Joe Biden of profiting from his son’s foreign businesses, a claim the Democratic nominee has flatly denied.
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Evidence of corruption has not materialized regarding the laptop documents or claims made by Tony Bobulinski, who says he is a former Hunter Biden business associate.
Biden has argued that the documents could emerge as part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
“From what I have read and know, the intelligence community warned the president that Giuliani was receiving disinformation from the Russians,” he said on “60 Minutes.” Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, he added, “is trying to spread disinformation about Joe Biden.”
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Biden’s claim has not been substantiated. He said during the debate on Thursday that “there are 50 former national intelligence agents who said they accuse me of a Russian plant,” the letter he referred to does not conclude that Russia planted the documents. Rather, the letter noted that Russian spies had targeted Giuliani and therefore “deeply suspected” that the Russian government had a role in the effort.
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