Trump asks Putin’s help to release info on Hunter Biden’s business deal

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Former President Donald Trump is soliciting help from Russian President Vladimir Putin in exposing possible dirt on Hunter Biden.
• Trump talked about an alleged $3.5 million wire transfer from a Russian billionaire to Hunter Biden’s investment firm.
• Hunter Biden is facing a federal tax probe led by a grand jury convened in Delaware.

Former President Donald Trump is soliciting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s help to “release” information on an alleged business deal involving Hunter Biden.

Trump told “Just the News” on Monday that President Joe Biden’s embattled son received an alleged $3.5 million wire transfer from Russian billionaire Elena Baturina. The case was outlined in a report by Senate Republicans made public ahead of the 2020 election.

“So now I would think Putin would know the answer to that,” Trump said on “Just the News” airing on Real America’s Voice network. “I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”

Hunter is facing a federal tax investigation led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Delaware.

It was revealed Monday that Hunter received a plug-in hybrid sports car worth $142,000. It was a gift from a Kazakhstani banking oligarch in 2014. On Tuesday, Hunter’s controversial laptop was entered into the Congressional Record.

Earlier this week, Biden said he wasn’t “walking back” comments made that “Putin cannot remain in power.” The unscripted remarks was made over the weekend in Poland.

“I wasn’t then, nor am I now, articulating a policy change,” Biden said. “I was expressing the moral outrage that I feel and I make no apologies for it.”

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham had previously called for the Russian president’s assassination in the early days of the invasion.

Trump has condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine but had been criticized for calling Putin “savvy” and “smart” for amassing troops along the Ukraine border in preparation for the invasion.

Trump, in 2016, had called on Russia to release emails from his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.

“I think you would probably be rewarded mightily by our press,” Trump said during his first campaign for president.

Trump was impeached by The House in 2019 but was later acquitted by The Senate. He was charged with asking Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce a probe into Joe Biden, his expected rival in the 2020 election.

Soruce: New York Post