White House lawyer helped shop controversial Hunter Biden story to Wall Street Journal: NYT
By Brooke Seipel - 10/25/20 08:01 PM EDT
A controversial story alleging wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden's family in foreign business dealings was pitched by Trump allies to the Wall Street Journal before it appeared in the New York Post, The New York Times reported.
According to the Times, White House lawyer Eric Herschmann and former deputy White House counsel Stefan Passantino were among those within President Trump's circle who had pitched the Biden story to Wall Street Journal reporters. Trump's allies reportedly hoped the story in the Journal, a trusted paper, would play in Trump's favor ahead of the November election
The story pitched by the White House insiders alleged that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was involved in his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings related to China and Ukraine. Herschmann and Passantino handed over emails and told the Journal that Hunter Biden's former business partner Tony Bobulinski was willing to go on the record with them.
As the Wall Street Journal sought to report the story out and confirm or deny the allegations made by Herschmann and Passantino, however, Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani gave the story to the New York Post, which published the allegations.
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