Washington: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that US President Donald Trump 'won't destroy him' or his family over the latter's call for an investigation against the former Vice President and his son.
Trump's request for an investigation into the Bidens directed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July 25 phone call has prompted an increasingly escalating impeachment enquiry initiated by House Democrats.
Biden said Trump seeking help from foreign countries to 'extract political favours' was an 'abuse of power', which he claimed is the defining characteristic of the Trump presidency.
President Trump is abusing the power of the presidency and is wholly unfit to be president. He is using the highest office in the land to advance his political interests instead of the national interest, he remarked.
A whistleblower complaint filed in late August by an unidentified intelligence official alleged that Trump asked Zelensly during the call to probe Biden and his son Hunter Biden who once worked for Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings that was accused of corruption. There has so far been no evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden senior or junior.
However, the former vice president during an event in January 2018 at the Council on Foreign Relations bragged about how he in 2016 successfully persuaded the Ukrainian authorities to sack the country's then prosecutor general Viktor Shokin who was investigating Burisma Holdings at the time.
Trump claimed that his intent to scrutinize the Bidens was out of concerns over corruption, not politically motivated or aimed at sabotaging Biden's presidential campaign.
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