President Candidate Biden said he would not spare Trump from accusations if elected, unlike the former president Ford did with his predecessor.
"That will not unite the country. I think that President Ford is a good person, I know quite well about him. I think if he is remodeled he will not do that, because he is not re-elected. ", former US Vice President Joe Biden told Iowa Radio on October 13.
Biden, now the Democratic presidential candidate, said he would not repeat the actions of former president Gerald Ford, who decided to acquit and help his predecessor Richard Nixon from being prosecuted after the Watergate scandal.
Biden's statement was made in the context of US President Donald Trump facing a impeachment investigation in the House of Representatives led by the Democratic Party. The focus of the investigation was the July telephone conversation between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to the phone, Trump urged Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden, who was once a member of the board of the Burisma gas company in Ukraine. Trump said Joe Biden took advantage of his position as then US vice president to force Ukraine not to investigate Burisma's corruption scandal.
Referring to his son, former Vice President Biden said Hunter did nothing wrong and he did not interfere in his work while in office. "No one asserted that my son had done anything wrong. Nor did anyone assert that I had done anything wrong, except the President had lied. It was the only thing," the former US vice president said. affirmative.
In a press conference on October 13, Biden said that if he was elected president, he would build a clean White House on the foundation from the time of former President Barack Obama and that no one in his family would play a role at the White House. or attending cabinet meetings and involving foreign companies.