Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was finally asked about the explosive New York Post report that asserts emails show his son made millions exchanging on his dad’s influence.
His reaction? “I have no reaction.”
After not being asked about the growing controversy surrounding Hunter Biden at the ABC News town hall by moderator George Stephanopoulos, the former VP spoke to reporters outside his private jet Friday following his campaign events in Michigan. What’s more, when he was drawn nearer about the subject by CBS News reporter Bo Erickson, Biden went after the journalist.
“Mr. Biden, what is your reaction to the New York Post story about your son, sir?” Erickson asked.
“I know you’d ask it,” Biden fired back. “I have no response, it’s another smear campaign, right up your alley, those are the questions you always ask.”
The Biden 2020 presidential campaign previously responded to the Post story on Wednesday, saying the former vice president “carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing,” and that “Trump administration officials have attested to these facts under oath.”
The Post obtained a 2015 email indicating that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, thanked Hunter Biden for “giving an opportunity” to meet his father, who was then serving as vice president under Barack Obama.
The senior Biden has recently said he has “never spoken to my son about his abroad professional dealings.”
The contention further raised after Facebook and Twitter started getting serious about the spreading of the article on social media.
“While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I need be certain that this story is eligible to be reality checked by Facebook’s outsider certainty checking partners,” Facebook representative Andy Stone tweeted Wednesday. “Meanwhile, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.”
Twitter claimed in a statement that it had taken action against the article in keeping with the company’s “Hacked Materials Policy” and prevented users from sharing the report. The company rolled back its overzealous crackdown amid backlash, which included a mea culpa from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
