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Vice President Mike Pence lit into the mainstream media over its coverage of the Ukraine controversy in an exclusive interview on "Hannity."

Critics have been relentless in their condemnation of President Trump over a whistleblower's complaint about the context of a phone call between the president and newly elected Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky -- while ignoring allegations of unsubstantiated wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, Pence told Sean Hannity.

"The ironic thing is is that everything that our critics in the media are leveling at the president from this phone call, and leveling at our administration, everything that Democrats on Capitol Hill are running off and describing -- Vice President Joe Biden bragged about -- which was a quid-pro-quo -- withholding American aid in exchange for a specific action," he claimed.

Trump's conversation with Zelensky came as the Trump administration was holding up $250 million in military aid for Ukraine, money that the White House later released. The president has said he wanted European countries to pay more for their own defense, and denied delaying any military aid funding. 

Last week, a whistleblower complaint surfaced containing allegations Trump made a troubling and unspecified "promise" to a foreign leader later reported to be Zelensky -- touching off a Washington firestorm. On Monday, a person familiar with the situation told Fox News the whistleblower did not have “firsthand knowledge” of the conversation.

The whistleblower's allegation could, however, prompt scrutiny of the Obama administration's Ukraine policy. The former vice president has explained on camera that in March 2016, he privately threatened then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that the U.S. would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees from Ukraine if its top prosecutor wasn't fired.

To that extent, Pence told Hannity all Americans should know the full account of both Bidens' relations with Kiev.

"The American people have a right to know what happened. They have a right to know what happened in 2016 and they have a right to know what the circumstances were around having a sitting vice president threaten to withhold American aid."

"I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion,'" Biden recounted telling Poroshenko at a Council on Foreign Relations event. "I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: 'I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.'"

"Well, son of a b---h, he got fired," Biden continued, after assuring Poroshenko that Obama knew about the arrangement. "And, they put in place someone who was solid at the time."

It remained unclear if this was directly tied to the prosecutor's probe into the company linked to Hunter Biden, as other countries reportedly wanted the prosecutor out as well.

Pence's comments to Hannity echoed remarks made by Trump during United Nations meetings in New York City.

"Joe Biden and his son are corrupt, but the fake news doesn’t want to report because they’re Democrats," Trump said Monday. "If a Republican ever did what Joe Biden did, if a Republican ever said what Joe Biden said, they’d be getting the electric chair."

Trump added: "Look at the double standards, you people ought to be ashamed of yourselves…You got a lot of crooked journalists, you’re crooked as hell."

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Yep, Democrats and the media believe Trump ought to be impeached and disqualified over assertions that he brought up Biden and his son and the sweetheart deal Biden's son got.  It's not proven yet that Trump made any threat to hold back money but Biden was taped and recorded bragging about doing the exact thing that they now want to disqualify Trump over yet Biden is worthy to serve as President and it's not disqualifying to him?

Do as I say not as I do and hypocrisy abounds.

gbrk posted:

Yep, Democrats and the media believe Trump ought to be impeached and disqualified over assertions that he brought up Biden and his son and the sweetheart deal Biden's son got.  It's not proven yet that Trump made any threat to hold back money but Biden was taped and recorded bragging about doing the exact thing that they now want to disqualify Trump over yet Biden is worthy to serve as President and it's not disqualifying to him?

Do as I say not as I do and hypocrisy abounds.

Trump asked for the money to be held back... Biden had nothing to do with his son's job.

Can you provide proof of your claims in the above post?

, L. Cranston posted:
gbrk posted:

Yep, Democrats and the media believe Trump ought to be impeached and disqualified over assertions that he brought up Biden and his son and the sweetheart deal Biden's son got.  It's not proven yet that Trump made any threat to hold back money but Biden was taped and recorded bragging about doing the exact thing that they now want to disqualify Trump over yet Biden is worthy to serve as President and it's not disqualifying to him?

Do as I say not as I do and hypocrisy abounds.

Trump asked for the money to be held back... Biden had nothing to do with his son's job.

Can you provide proof of your claims in the above post?

You are delusional, I guess you see no wrong in Bidens withholding money to get the prosecutor replaced and think his son would have gotten the business if not for Biden.  Also, remember right after traveling to China with his son his son also got a billion dollar deal.  

https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/...is-so-soft-on-china/

Jack Hammer posted:
As soon as BarryO cheated his way into office he started businesses 
that were meant to fail. I'm sure he and the felon Van Jones had to do
something with all that money.

I don't doubt that they all use the office for some advantages.  Obama was able to funnel countless amounts of money into solar companies that were run by donors to his campaign, from what I have read, and then those companies went belly up and of course, the funds never got paid back.  Republicans no doubt take care of their donors as well but in Trump's case and the current hubbub, no one really knows what was said and what went on.  All this is really over things no one knows at this juncture.   That's not to say that they won't find anything but there is no doubt that Democrats have been seething at the mouth for anything to try and get Trump on.   In this case though if Trump is worthy to be removed then Biden surely needs to get out of the race and be denied the opportunity to run for President because Biden, himself, bragged about holding back money unless high government officials in Ukraine stopped an investigator that was investigating Biden's son's activities.  Biden admitted that he, with Obama's knowledge and approval, held money guarantees back until Ukraine fired the prosecutor looking into his son.   So Biden was out bragging about being the one who got the prosecutor fired with a threat to hold back money and he said Obama knew about it and agreed so actually you could say both were responsible but then Democrats have selective memories and Biden will never be held accountable even though the words came from his mouth admitting to it.

HIFLYER2 posted:
, L. Cranston posted:
gbrk posted:

Yep, Democrats and the media believe Trump ought to be impeached and disqualified over assertions that he brought up Biden and his son and the sweetheart deal Biden's son got.  It's not proven yet that Trump made any threat to hold back money but Biden was taped and recorded bragging about doing the exact thing that they now want to disqualify Trump over yet Biden is worthy to serve as President and it's not disqualifying to him?

Do as I say not as I do and hypocrisy abounds.

Trump asked for the money to be held back... Biden had nothing to do with his son's job.

Can you provide proof of your claims in the above post?

You are delusional, I guess you see no wrong in Bidens withholding money to get the prosecutor replaced and think his son would have gotten the business if not for Biden.  Also, remember right after traveling to China with his son his son also got a billion dollar deal.  

https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/...is-so-soft-on-china/

Thanks for the reply I had missed that comment as didn't see it across my screen.  True and in another post I actually Linked to Biden actually bragging about doing just that thing, getting the prosecutor fired. But you'll hear no Democratic condemnation of Biden what so ever.  It would take some really heavy shaded rose-colored glasses to believe that Biden being Vice President had absolutely nothing to do with Hunter Biden getting the deals he did with China and Ukraine.  There may be no smoking gun produced but Biden surely was making sure none would be found with his elimination of the prosecutor looking into that very thing.  I'm sure ole Joe, though, wouldn't ever do anything like that as President ... if he was somehow able to make it.  

 

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HIFLYER2 posted:
, L. Cranston posted:
gbrk posted:

Yep, Democrats and the media believe Trump ought to be impeached and disqualified over assertions that he brought up Biden and his son and the sweetheart deal Biden's son got.  It's not proven yet that Trump made any threat to hold back money but Biden was taped and recorded bragging about doing the exact thing that they now want to disqualify Trump over yet Biden is worthy to serve as President and it's not disqualifying to him?

Do as I say not as I do and hypocrisy abounds.

Trump asked for the money to be held back... Biden had nothing to do with his son's job.

Can you provide proof of your claims in the above post?

You are delusional, I guess you see no wrong in Bidens withholding money to get the prosecutor replaced and think his son would have gotten the business if not for Biden.  Also, remember right after traveling to China with his son his son also got a billion dollar deal.  

https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/...is-so-soft-on-china/

I must be delusional, because I can't see where Biden asked another country to meddle in US elections? Trump has admittedly done so... TWICE.

How many trademarks did China approve for Ivanka, just after Trump's election? 

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gbrk posted:
HIFLYER2 posted:
, L. Cranston posted:
gbrk posted:

Yep, Democrats and the media believe Trump ought to be impeached and disqualified over assertions that he brought up Biden and his son and the sweetheart deal Biden's son got.  It's not proven yet that Trump made any threat to hold back money but Biden was taped and recorded bragging about doing the exact thing that they now want to disqualify Trump over yet Biden is worthy to serve as President and it's not disqualifying to him?

Do as I say not as I do and hypocrisy abounds.

Trump asked for the money to be held back... Biden had nothing to do with his son's job.

Can you provide proof of your claims in the above post?

You are delusional, I guess you see no wrong in Bidens withholding money to get the prosecutor replaced and think his son would have gotten the business if not for Biden.  Also, remember right after traveling to China with his son his son also got a billion dollar deal.  

https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/...is-so-soft-on-china/

Thanks for the reply I had missed that comment as didn't see it across my screen.  True and in another post I actually Linked to Biden actually bragging about doing just that thing, getting the prosecutor fired. But you'll hear no Democratic condemnation of Biden what so ever.  It would take some really heavy shaded rose-colored glasses to believe that Biden being Vice President had absolutely nothing to do with Hunter Biden getting the deals he did with China and Ukraine.  There may be no smoking gun produced but Biden surely was making sure none would be found with his elimination of the prosecutor looking into that very thing.  I'm sure ole Joe, though, wouldn't ever do anything like that as President ... if he was somehow able to make it.  

 

Hunter Biden is trash and a crook.

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