President Trump turned his attacks on former Vice President Joe Biden to his Democratic opponent's son, Hunter Biden, and led his affairs to a substance abuse and position on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which Senate Republicans The latest findings were the subject of an investigation.
In a controversial exchange of initial
presidential debates, Biden criticized Mr. Trump for claiming in a report in
the Atlantic that he had called the fallen members of the military
"defeated" and successful. "
"My son was in Iraq, he spent a year
there. He got a bronze star, he got a conspiratorial service medal," Biden
said of his late son, Beau Biden. "He was not a loser. He was a patriot,
and the people left behind were heroes."
"Are you talking about Hunter?"
Mr. Trump interrupted the former vice president. "I'm talking about my son
Beau Biden," Biden said.
"I don't know the wife, I know the
hunter," Mr. Trump intervened. Biden died of a brain tumor in 2015, when
Biden was vice president.
The president then revealed, without any
evidence, that Hunter Biden had been dishonestly discharged’ from the army and
had made "good luck" in Ukraine and Russia.
Biden denied Mr. Trump's claims about
Hunter Biden, but his son had a drug problem.
The former vice president said, "They
have decided, they have worked on it." "I'm proud of it. I'm proud of
my son."
Hunter Biden's tenure on the Burmese board
was the subject of a year-long investigation by a pair of Republican-led Senate
committees and allegations of misconduct by Mr. Trump, often by Democrats and
Biden. Is cited’ as evidence.
A report released by the two committees
last week found that while Biden's stance on the Burmese board was
"problematic" and led to a potential conflict of interest, Hunter
Biden's remarks about Ukraine It is unknown at this time what he will do after
leaving the post.
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