Trump asks Putin to give information on Hunter Biden’s dealings with Moscow mayor’s wife

The former president alleged in an interview that the Moscow mayor’s wife gave US$3.5 million to Hunter Biden in a bid to curry favour with his father

Trump was impeached in 2019 for trying to pressure Ukrainian leader Zelensky into digging up what he claimed was compromising information on Biden’s son

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Published: 1:15pm, 30 Mar 2022Updated: 1:33pm, 30 Mar 2022

Donald Trump has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched an invasion of Ukraine last month, to reveal any compromising information he might have on US President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

The former Republican president returned to accusations he had repeated many times during his unsuccessful campaign against Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

In an interview excerpt broadcast on Tuesday by Real America’s Voice Just the News show, Trump claimed that the wife of the mayor of Moscow gave US$3.5 million to Hunter Biden.

“That’s a lot of money,” he said. “She gave him US$3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it.”

“I think we should know that answer,” he added.

Trump has long claimed, without providing evidence, that the younger Biden received the funds from Elena Baturina, wife of the late Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, in a bid to curry favour with Joe Biden.