The unfair indictments against former President Donald Trump are just a distraction to try and hide from the American people the increasingly obvious corruption of President Joe Biden, former Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake told Newsmax on Tuesday.
Lake spoke to "Newsline" after two House committees a day earlier subpoenaed IRS investigators and Biden administration Department of Justice officials present at or with direct knowledge of a meeting in 2022 in which U.S. attorney for Delaware David Weiss allegedly claimed he was prevented from bringing charges against Hunter Biden for tax crimes.
Lake said, "It's a travesty what's happening. This is a persecution of President Trump and people who support him, people who are America first."
She continued, "It saddens me that our country has come to this, that Joe Biden has used his political power to take our federal government and weaponize it against the person he is running against ... it is election interference and pure corruption.
"Isn't it obvious by now [Joe Biden's corruption]? We have seen [Republican-led probes] roll out one fact after the next, one bribe after the next. I think there are 20 shell accounts, and the fact that Hunter Biden is still out there roaming free, no charges drawn against him, yet we are watching witch hunt after witch hunt after witch hunt against President Trump."
She added, "It is very obvious it is all a big distraction to keep away from the American people seeing what's happening with Joe Biden, which is, basically, we're finding out now — and thanks to Newsmax for covering it, some of these other outlets won't even touch it — how corrupt Joe Biden is and has been for a long, long time. He sold out the American people, he sold us out to the highest bidder and I think the people are on to it."
Lake said it is important for the public to ask, "why for eight years has 'the swamp' been trying to bring down President Trump?"
She said the answer is that Trump "is the one man who is exposing the corruption, ready to root it out and return our government to 'We the people,' which is how the founders set up this great country."
Lake added that Trump "is a peacemaker, and there is absolutely no money in peace. Conversely there is trillions of dollars in war and he wants to end war and to bring peace to America and the world."
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