“In 2019, the House of Representatives impeached Trump for allegedly withholding crucial military aid from Ukraine unless President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced investigations targeting the Bidens and other Democrats on discredited allegations.”
The red carpet is cleaned before President Donald Trump steps from Air Force One, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, before meeting with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. via Associated Press
Trump allowed his DARK DOGE to rifle through our private information. Why? Is TRAITOR TRUMP looking for proof Hunter Biden did a under the table deal with Ukraine? Trump is not conspiring with Putin to undermine our Democracy…..Trump is STILL CONSPIRING with the most fucked up people any American President has ever surrounded himself with. And. Trump is a delusional narcissist – ENCOURAGED BY CRAZY EVANGELICALS ON A WITCH-HUNTER! These Fake Christians created an Achilles heal in America’s Defense that We Tax Payers paid trillions for.
TAX THE BLOODY CHURCH.
Make the Evangelical Loons pay for the rebuilding of Ukraine – if this nation survives!
When did Trump conclude Putin – knew nothing? How about VP Vance? Is this why he was so hard on Zelensky in the White House? THINK! History – will record the truth about this evil witch-hunt!
John Presco
Putin also reacted with visible irritation when asked about comments Trump has made concerning Putin’s ties to the former mayor of Moscow, and to an alleged payment made to Hunter Biden by the ex-mayor’s widow. Putin said he knew nothing about the existence of any commercial relationship between Hunter and the woman. Joe Biden says the accusation about his son is not true.
- Putin has stated he was unaware of business dealings between Hunter Biden and the widow of Moscow’s former mayor. This is in response to former President Trump’s claims that Hunter Biden received $3.5 million from her, according to Politico. Hunter Biden’s legal team denies this claim.
- Trump has publicly urged Putin to release information on Hunter Biden, particularly regarding alleged ties to Russian oligarchs and claims about payments received from the Moscow mayor’s widow. Trump has suggested Putin would “know the answer” regarding these claims.
In essence, while Trump has repeatedly raised questions about Hunter Biden’s alleged business dealings and involvement with Russian individuals, Putin has stated he was unaware of any such commercial relationship between Hunter Biden and the Moscow mayor’s widow.
Trump calls on Putin to release dirt on Hunter Biden
It’s the latest example of the former president soliciting foreign governments to intervene to damage his domestic political rivals.
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By Quint Forgey03/29/2022 12:20 PM EDT
Former President Donald Trump in a new interview called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information regarding alleged dealings between Eastern European oligarchs and Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son.
Trump’s remarks, in an interview with discredited far-right journalist John Solomon, were published Tuesday by the “Just the News” television show on the Real America’s Voice network.
In making his claims about Hunter Biden, Trump cited the findings of a controversial, highly politicized investigation by Senate Republicans into the Bidens, which was published just weeks before the 2020 election and produced little new evidence of wrongdoing.
Trump has repeatedly promoted dubious claims of foreign business dealings by Hunter Biden, specifically alleging that he received millions of dollars from the wife of Moscow’s late mayor, Yury Luzhkov.
“She gave him $3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it,” Trump said in the interview, conducted at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. “I think we should know that answer.”
Trump failed to mention that he himself sought to do business with Luzhkov’s government in the late 1990s, according to POLITICO. Trump also was pursuing high-profile real estate deals in Russia as recently as 2016, including a proposed Trump Tower Moscow.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment on Trump’s remarks. Attorneys for Hunter Biden did not immediately return a request for comment.
Hunter Biden revealed in 2020 that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware was investigating his tax affairs. POLITICO also reported at the time that the securities fraud unit in the Southern District of New York scrutinized his finances.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the federal tax investigation into Hunter Biden is gaining momentum, with prosecutors in Delaware seeking information and grand jury testimony in recent weeks.
Trump’s new interview is far from the first time the former president has suggested or openly demanded that foreign governments intervene to damage his domestic political rivals.
In 2016, Trump publicly asked the Russian government to obtain and release emails from the private email server that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton used during her tenure as secretary of State.
In 2019, the House of Representatives impeached Trump for allegedly withholding crucial military aid from Ukraine unless President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced investigations targeting the Bidens and other Democrats on discredited allegations.
Trump’s new request of Putin raises the specter of those scandals, as the Russian president plods on with his more than monthlong war in Ukraine and Zelenskyy’s forces continue to fend off the invaders.
Trump described Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “genius” and “savvy” last month, and he argued that Joe Biden was “almost giving [Putin] an incentive” to deploy nuclear weapons amid the conflict last week.
Putin rejects Trump’s criticism of Hunter Biden’s business
The Russian president took the time to knock down what he made clear he regarded as false allegations from Trump about the Bidens.
President Vladimir Putin. Teresa Kroeger / Getty Images for World Food Program USA
Oct. 26, 2020, 2:21 AM PDT
By Reuters
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden’s past business ties with Ukraine or Russia, marking out his disagreement with one of Donald Trump’s attack lines in the U.S. presidential election.
Putin was responding to comments made by Trump during televised debates with Democratic challenger Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
Trump, who is trailing in opinion polls, has used the debates to make accusations that Biden and his son Hunter engaged in unethical practices in Ukraine. No evidence has been verified to support the allegations, and Joe Biden has called them false and discredited.
Inside the false conspiracy theory being pushed on the Bidens
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Putin, who has praised Trump in the past for saying he wanted better ties with Moscow, has said Russia will work with any U.S. leader, while noting what he called Joe Biden’s “sharp anti-Russian rhetoric.”
Putin appeared less friendly towards Trump in remarks broadcast by Russian state TV on Sunday. In what may be seen by some analysts as an attempt to try to curry favor with the Biden camp, he took the time to knock down what he made clear he regarded as false allegations from Trump about the Bidens.
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“Yes, in Ukraine he [Hunter Biden] had or maybe still has a business, I don’t know. It doesn’t concern us. It concerns the Americans and the Ukrainians,” said Putin.
“But well yes he had at least one company, which he practically headed up, and judging from everything he made good money. I don’t see anything criminal about this, at least we don’t know anything about this [being criminal].”
Putin also reacted with visible irritation when asked about comments Trump has made concerning Putin’s ties to the former mayor of Moscow, and to an alleged payment made to Hunter Biden by the ex-mayor’s widow. Putin said he knew nothing about the existence of any commercial relationship between Hunter and the woman. Joe Biden says the accusation about his son is not true.
U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to tilt the contest in Trump’s favor, an allegation Moscow has denied. Russia has also dismissed accusations by U.S. intelligence agencies of trying to interfere with this year’s election too.
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