Former Vice President Mike Pence appeared to be hitting back at President Biden following a congressional investigation into his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China and Ukraine.
“The American people deserve to know what was going on here. They deserve to hold this president and this administration accountable,” Pence said in an interview Friday on Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria.”
Pence was asked by host Maria Bartiromo about the House Republican majority’s investigation into the younger Biden’s business ties to companies in China and Ukraine and whether those ties influenced Joe Biden’s decisions during or during his years as vice president in President Barack Obama’s administration. current position in the White House.
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President Biden, right, watches a Christmas tree lighting ceremony with first lady Jill Biden, son Hunter Biden, grandson Beau and daughter Melissa Cohen, left, in Nantucket, Mass. November 25, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
The younger Biden served on the board of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019 and also worked on investments with Chinese companies. Republicans focused on these deals when Joe Biden ran for the White House in 2020.
And scrutiny of Hunter Biden has intensified since the GOP regained its majority in the House in November’s midterm elections. Democrats have repeatedly accused the Republican-led investigation of being a political ploy to undermine the president.
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Pence, who is likely to run the White House in the coming weeks or months, said he was taking a shot at Biden: “I can’t relate. I mean, when I was vice president, my son wasn’t sitting on the board of foreign corporations. Of a fighter jet. he was sitting in the cockpit, serving in the US Marine Corps.’
Former Vice President Mike Pence, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, speaks to New Hampshire party activists at the Cheshire County GOP GOP’s annual Lincoln-Reagan fundraising dinner on March 16, 2023 in Keene, NH. (Fox News)
The former vice president regularly mentions his son, Michael, as well as his son-in-law, who serves in the Army, in speeches and interviews.
Hunter Biden, center (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)
Hunter Biden served in the US Army Reserve, but was discharged shortly after commissioning after failing a drug test. Biden’s struggles with drug addiction are well documented.
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Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the president’s son who died of brain cancer in 2015, was a Delaware Army National Guard major who served in the Iraq War.