President Donald Trump is right to want an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, and Democrats are "absolutely" reacting too quickly on reports the president had pressured the newly elected president of Ukraine, Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., said Monday.
"Everywhere Joe Biden goes, his son follows and gets millions of dollars from the government,'" Green told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
"In the case of China, it's billions. The American people want to know what happened here. The president is right to ask for an investigation."
Green's comments came as Trump disputes reports he pushed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden's son for his involvement with a Ukraine energy company and the former vice-president, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, for pushing the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor investigating the claims against his son and the company.
"Joe Biden admitted to pressuring with a billion-dollar loan threat the government of Ukraine to fire an investigator who maybe was getting a little close to the $3 million payment that went to Biden's son, through two different countries," Green said. "Maybe they were getting too close and that's why the billion-dollar bribe happened.
"That's O.K. to the Democrat party? Their concept of right and wrong is upside down. Biden is O.K., pressuring a foreign government with a billion-dollar loan to fire an investigator but Trump can't ask for an investigation into this corruption? It's crazy."
Sandy Fitzgerald ✉
Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics.
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