President Donald Trump said Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden should be barred’ from running in the presidential election during an election rally at Iowa's Des Moines International Airport on Wednesday night.
Trump quoted a story published by the New
York Post on Wednesday, which claimed that Biden's son, Hunter, was hired’ by
Ukraine's energy company to gain access to Joe Biden for political reasons. Burma
Holdings made the payment. Biden has repeatedly denied the allegations.
"Just weeks ago, he stood up to the
American people in the presidential debate and told you that these claims were
completely discredited and that his son did nothing wrong," Trump said.
"But now this is a complete lie. We can now clearly see that Biden is a
corrupt politicians who should not even be allowed to run for president."
"Vice President Biden," Trump
added, "you apologize to the American people because it shows that you are
a corrupt politician. Meetings, phone calls, transcripts and records must be
released’ immediately. In the family business, Trump has asked Biden for
documents specifically about Russia and China.
Newsweek reached out to Biden's campaign
for comment.
Some commentators have criticized the New
York Post's story for making baseless allegations. Twitter tried to limit the
spread of the story by labeling the tweets as "potentially
effective". It was locked’ after White House Press Secretary Kellogg
McKinney tried to share the article on his Twitter account. Facebook also
restricted the distribution of the story while the platform independently
checks its veracity.
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