“No Morals Left”: Biden Camp TORCHES Lindsey Graham, Claims He Forfeited His Conscience on Ukraine — Accused of Playing Both Sides While Innocent Lives Hang in the Balance
Sen. Lindsey Graham requested from the State Department on Thursday any documents relating to former Vice President Joe BIden, his son Hunter and Ukrainian gas company Burisma. | Win McNamee/Getty Images
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign accused Sen. Lindsey Graham of having “forfeited his conscience” for requesting State Department records concerning the former vice president’s efforts to oust a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor in 2016.
The broadside against Graham signaled a new phase of the Biden campaign’s counterattack against President Donald Trump — whose attempts to have Biden and his son investigated in Ukraine ha ve led to his looming impeachment — by pointing out that congressional Republicans saw no scandal regarding the Bidens until it became a political issue for Trump.
“Trump is now counting on his Republican enablers in the Senate to bail him out,” Biden spokesman Andrew Bates told POLITICO. “Driven by fear of a mean tweet, they are falling in line, peddling the same disproven lies we ’ ve heard for months. Lindsey Graham has forfeited his conscience to escape a primary. ”
“Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he’s going to regret his whole life,” Biden told CNN’s Don Lemon in an interview Friday.
“I say Lindsey, I just — I’m just embarrassed by what you’re doing, for you. I mean, my Lord,” Biden said, when asked what he would say to his old Senate friend.
Asked for comment, Graham’s Senate office said via email that “[Chairman] Adam Schiff and the Democrat-controlled House Intel Committee have made it clear they will not look into the issues surrounding Hunter Biden and Burisma. Senator Graham is requesting documents which could shed additional light on these outstanding issues.”
Graham requested records Thursday from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after witnesses, including those called by Republicans, testified in House impeachment hearings that there is no basis for Trump’s claims that Biden acted corruptly in Ukraine in 2016. At the time, Biden pressured the country to remove a prosecutor who was widely seen as corrupt by the Obama administration and the international community, as well as congressional Republicans at the time.
That prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, had previously been investigating a natural gas company called Burisma that also hired Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in 2015. But the investigation was dormant at the time the vice president called for Shokin’s ouster.
Though questions about potential conflicts of interest concerning Biden and his son were raised by The New York Times in 2015, congressional Republicans did not call it illegal or ask for an investigation — a far cry from their posture now.
Graham said nothing of the controversy in 2016, but he did get choked up at the time in an interview recalling his close friendship with Biden, whom he described as a family man.
To the degree other congressional Republicans discuss ed Biden’s activities in Ukraine in 2016, they were supportive of his efforts to oust the corrupt prosecutor.
“The whole world felt that this , that Shokin wasn’t doing a [good] enough job. So we were saying, ‘Hey, you’ve … got to rid yourself of corruption, ’” Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican, recently said on The Vicki McKenna Show.
Another Republican senator, Ohio’s Rob Portman, last month told The Columbus Dispatch that Shokin was corrupt, contrary to Trump’s claims. Portman stood by a bipartisan letter he signed that was sent to the Ukrainian president in 2016 to oust the prosecutor. Biden, his son and Burisma never came up as an issue.
“That didn’t even enter into our calculus as far as I know, one way or the other. It certainly didn’t into mine,” Portman said. “Because that was something that nobody was even talking about.”
Neither Portman nor Johnson ’ s offices returned a request for comment.
“Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress for most of the last five years and said or did nothing to indicate they thought that this warranted attention,” Biden’s spokesman, Bates, said. “As recently as a few weeks ago, Lindsay Graham said that such an investigation would be a circus. What changed?”
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