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President Donald Trump says US Attorney General William Barr should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate an alleged influence-peddling scandal involving his Democrat rival, Joe Biden, before the Nov. 3 election.
"We've got to get the attorney general to act," Trump said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News. "He's got to act, and he's got to act fast. He's got to appoint somebody. This is major corruption, and this has to be known about before the election."Trump's statement came one day after 11 House Republicans wrote a
letter to Barr, urging him to immediately appoint a special counsel to investigate whether Joe Biden allowed his son Hunter to peddle access to him during his eight years as vice president and whether he received foreign money.
Lawmakers asked that the special counsel also probe any such alleged corruption that surfaces concerning Biden's 36-year career in the US Senate.But with just two weeks to go before the Nov. 3 election, it's unclear what a special counsel could determine and report publicly before voters cast their ballots. The Mueller investigation took
674 days before reporting that it was unable to find evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. Bill and Hillary Clinton were investigated for 1,693 days before special counsel Kenneth Starr released his report to Congress.
"This has to be done early, so the attorney general must act," Trump said of the Biden probe.
Trump also blasted US Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) for calling allegations against Biden part of a Russian "disinformation" plot. "He is so sick," Trump said of Schiff. "We went through 2 ½ years of that, plus. And this guy, he ought to be put away, or he ought to be . . . something should happen with him. I watched him look straight at the camera and say it. And he laughs at it. They laugh in the backrooms at it."Trump said the alleged influence peddling by Biden's family is too big to be dismissed as something that Joe Biden didn't know about. Reports about the alleged scandal surfaced in the past week, largely based on emails reportedly obtained from Hunter Biden's laptop, which had been left at a Delaware repair shop.
"I mean, his son walked around like a vacuum cleaner . . . and look, this is the laptop from hell," Trump said.
Comment: The FBI has also
confirmed (as if it was necessary) that, despite claims from Schiff, that the laptop and emails are "not part of some Russian disinformation campaign." There is no actionable intelligence linking anything to Russia on this issue.
Multiple federal law enforcement officials have
confirmed that the laptop is linked to an FBI money laundering probe. Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,
claims that the laptop contains 'numerous pictures of underage girls,' including a 14yo related to Hunter:
According to Giuliani, a text message sent from Hunter Biden to his father complains about how Hunter's sister-in-law, who was once his lover, told his therapist that he had been "sexually inappropriate" with a 14-year-old girl.
His sister-in-law went on to say that "he had been sexually inappropriate with [redacted] when she says that I face time naked with her and the reason I can't have her out to see me is because I'll walk around naked smoking crack," the text message, read by Giuliani, allegedly said.
As the Bidens work on damage control, Joe Biden
falsely claims that the "vast majority" of the intelligence community agrees there is "no basis at all" for the allegations of corruption against him and his son Hunter Biden and says that it's a
last-ditch "smear campaign." Someone should tell Joe that the laptop is real, corruption is real, and if there is evidence of pedophilia and corruption in the laptop, perhaps jail will be very real for Hunter Biden.
Trump
responded to the claims that this is a "Russian plot" by comparing it to Hillary Clinton's completely baseless lie that Jill Stein and Tulsi Gabbard were "Russian agents," with no evidence to back up her claims:
"This was like Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein, when Hillary Clinton said it about them... that they were agents of Russia," Trump noted, adding, "They were not agents of Russia, they never spoke to anybody from Russia."
Comment: The FBI has also confirmed (as if it was necessary) that, despite claims from Schiff, that the laptop and emails are "not part of some Russian disinformation campaign." There is no actionable intelligence linking anything to Russia on this issue.
Multiple federal law enforcement officials have confirmed that the laptop is linked to an FBI money laundering probe. Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claims that the laptop contains 'numerous pictures of underage girls,' including a 14yo related to Hunter: As the Bidens work on damage control, Joe Biden falsely claims that the "vast majority" of the intelligence community agrees there is "no basis at all" for the allegations of corruption against him and his son Hunter Biden and says that it's a last-ditch "smear campaign." Someone should tell Joe that the laptop is real, corruption is real, and if there is evidence of pedophilia and corruption in the laptop, perhaps jail will be very real for Hunter Biden.
Trump responded to the claims that this is a "Russian plot" by comparing it to Hillary Clinton's completely baseless lie that Jill Stein and Tulsi Gabbard were "Russian agents," with no evidence to back up her claims: