Biden camp speaks up to quell Senate Burisma-Hunter Biden inquiry
by Emily Larsen, Political Reporter |
| July 22, 2020 12:00 PM
Joe Biden's presidential campaign is pushing back against a Senate committee investigation into work by his son, Hunter Biden, for Ukrainian gas company Burisma, through personal attacks on panel Chairman Ron Johnson.
Biden deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield in a memo Tuesday suggested that the Wisconsin Republican, who heads the Homeland Security Committee, could be "party to a foreign influence operation" and accused him of "worsening the coronavirus crisis" by working on the investigation.
"He's wasting taxpayer dollars on a blatantly dishonest attempt to help Donald Trump get elected," Bedingfield said, adding that "this sham is a windfall for Russian disinformation."
Pro-Russian Ukrainians say that they have fed unverified, edited tapes of Joe Biden speaking to Ukrainian officials to the committee. A committee staff member told NBC News that it has not received opposition research but did not explicitly address any information coming from foreign sources. "The claims are false and the Democrats know this,†the staff member said.
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