America Joe Biden announced that if he was elected president, he would ban his family and all close people involved in foreign companies.

"No one in my family or anyone who is related to me will participate in any foreign company activities," said former US Vice President Joe Biden, 76. election campaign in Altoona, Iowa on 13/10. He is a prominent candidate of the Democratic Party in the race to the White House in 2020.

The statements were made by Biden in the context of US public opinion focusing on his son Hunter Biden, after the content of a July phone conversation between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky was published. .

According to the phone, Trump urged Ukraine to investigate Hunter, who was 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.

On Twitter as well as in the campaign, Trump did not hesitate to accuse Biden and his father of "corruption". The US House of Representatives, led by the Democratic Party, called for a impeachment investigation against Trump over the incident, arguing that the President is abusing his power and unconstitutional for personal political purposes.

Referring to Hunter's son in a speech in Iowa on 13/10, Biden said his son did nothing wrong and he did not interfere in his work as vice president of the United States.

"No one asserted that my son had done anything wrong. Nor did anyone assert that I had done anything wrong, except that the President had lied. It was the only thing," the former vice president said. specified. He added that during his time as vice president of the United States, he did not interfere in the work and decisions of his children.