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Under attack by Donald Trump, Hunter Biden says serving on Ukraine gas board was ‘poor judgment’
- But son of 2020 US presidential hopeful Joe Biden denies doing ‘anything improper’ in dealings with foreign company
- Trump’s efforts to get Ukrainian leader to investigate the Bidens are at centre of impeachment inquiry against him
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Hunter Biden, the son of former vice-president and 2020 US presidential hopeful Joe Biden, said his service on a Ukraine gas company board was proper but may have been a bad idea in hindsight.
“In retrospect, I think that it was poor judgment on my part,” Hunter Biden said in an ABC News interview aired on Tuesday, in his first public comment since he became the target of allegations from US President Donald Trump. “Did I do anything improper? No, not in any way, not in any way whatsoever.”
Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have repeatedly made discredited claims that Joe Biden used his position as the Obama administration’s point person on Ukraine to help quash an investigation in 2016 into the owner of one of the country’s largest private gas companies where Hunter sat on the board.
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Trump’s efforts to get the newly elected government in Ukraine to investigate the Bidens are at the centre of an impeachment inquiry now being conducted by the House.
“I joined a board, I served honourably, I focused on corporate governance,” Hunter Biden told ABC. “I didn’t have any discussions with my father before or after I joined the board, as it relates to it, other than that brief exchange that we had.”
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