Biden hits Giuliani for threatening to travel to Ukraine to pursue probe of his son, company
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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday criticized Rudolph Giuliani – President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and former New York City mayor – for threatening to travel Ukraine to try to convince leaders there to investigate the former vice president and his son.Giuliani considered – and then called off – making the journey to urge the nation’s prosecutor to probe whether Hunter Biden, who was named to the board of directors of a Ukranian natural gas producer in 2014, had enlisted his father’s help when the former vice president called for Ukraine to remove a prosecutor who had investigated the gas company.“I can’t remember any lawyer representing the president, conferring with the president, deciding to go overseas, where a government relies on U.S. largesse to try to get them to do something that everybody knows never happened,” Biden said during a wide-ranging interview with WMUR.“All the reports indicated that not a single, solitary thing was inappropriate about what my son did. He never talked to me. He never talked to anybody in the administration,” the former vice president said.“It’s sort of Giuliani’s style and this administration,” Biden said. “It is inappropriate. Unrelated to me, it’s just inappropriate to send your lawyer to a foreign government to try to get them to do something that has no bearing except to try to embarrass.”Biden insisted his son did not reach out to him.“I give you my word. None,” he said. “There was no communication with my office. We never once spoke about it. It came out of a law firm in New York City that he was working with. He never once asked me. Never discussed anything with me. And with all the investigation that’s been done, there’s not a single piece of evidence that he ever talked to anybody in
