“In this office, we prosecute based on the facts and the law. This law is non-partisan. You should feel no need to defend me,” she wrote.
“I am not concerned with the calls, emails, or ads and you should not concern yourself with them.”
President Joe Biden has declined to comment on Trump’s legal woes.
However, the Democrat has political problems of his own, with Republicans considering launching an impeachment inquiry into the president to determine whether he engaged in any corruption with his son, Hunter.
US President Joe Biden at a veterans’ care event in Salt Lake City, Utah.Credit: Reuters
For years, Biden has insisted he has no links – nor had he ever discussed – his son’s shady business affairs, which included a lucrative contract with Ukraine energy firm Burisma when the older Biden was vice-president and the Obama administration’s point person on Ukraine.
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However, one of Hunter’s business associates, Devon Archer, testified to the House of Representatives Oversight Committee last week that Biden knew more about his son’s business that he let on.
While it has not been proven that the president engaged in any corruption or financially benefited from his son’s business deals, Archer recalled dinners that Biden attended with his son’s business associates, along with about 20 calls Hunter had while he was in meetings where he would put his father on the speakerphone.
More questions were raised on Thursday (AEST) when the Oversight Committee released fresh bank records laying out millions of dollars the Biden family and Hunter’s business entities received from foreign entities – including from Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.
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“No one in the Biden Administration or in the Minority has explained what services, if any, the Bidens and their associates provided in exchange for the over $20 million in foreign payments,” a memo released by the committee says.
In a statement, White House spokesperson Ian Sams hit back, saying the committee “released another memo full of years-old ‘news,’ innuendo, and misdirection – but notably missing, yet again, is any connection to President Biden.”
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