Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, who has recently stated that he might not back President Trump’s reelection bid, tweeted on Sunday that it would be troubling if the President appealed to his Ukrainian counterpart to probe Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, Fox News informed.
Romney wrote that it was “critical for the facts to come out.”
Trump called his conversations with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy “perfectly fine and routine.”
“Nothing was said that was in any way wrong,” Trump said.
Trump has been reportedly accused of putting pressure on Zelenskiy to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in investigating Hunter Biden, and using military aid as leverage.
Trump rejected claims that he made improper requests, but he did point fingers at the Bidens and their relationship with Ukraine.
The Democratic presidential hopeful’s son Hunter Biden had been probed related to business interests.
Biden mentioned in the past that the U.S. would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees from Ukraine if the prosecutor was not fired, but it is still not clear if this was directly connected to Hunter Biden’s case, as other countries reportedly wanted the prosecutor to be fired.
“Trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him the question, why is he on the phone with a foreign leader trying to intimidate a foreign leader, if that’s what happened,” Biden told reporters in Iowa on Saturday.
He accused Trump of “doing this because he knows I’ll beat him like a drum and he’s using the abuse of power and every element of the presidency to try to do something to smear me.”
Trump accused Biden for not being honest in claiming that he never spoke to his son about his business deals with a Ukrainian energy company, despite Hunter Biden telling the New Yorker that they spoke “just once” about it.
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