Democratic primary rival Robert Kennedy Jr. says he backs a probe of the $10 million bribery claim leveled against President Biden and his son by an Ukrainian oligarch who headed the “notoriously corrupt” Burisma energy company.
“The issues that are now coming up are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened,” Kennedy told Fox News Sunday Morning Futures show host Maria Bartiromo.
“I mean, these revelations …where you have Burisma, which is this notoriously corrupt company, that paid out apparently $10 million to Hunter and his dad, if that’s true, then it is really troubling.
“So I think … it needs to be investigated,” he said.
Kennedy tried to dodge having to weigh in on the controversy, insisting he wanted to “bring people together and some of the vitriol, the poison that’s made politics so poisonous, so personal.”
An FBI informant file that described the $10 million bribery allegation against Biden and son Hunter was released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). In it, Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma Holdings, claimed to the informant that he was “coerced” into making the payoff.
Kennedy also agreed with an assertion that federal law enforcement authorities have been politicized following Bartiromo’s declaration the Justice Department went after Trump officials with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants.
“Yes,” said Kennedy. ” I mean, I think that that’s something that every American needs to worry about, that our federal agencies, which used to be above politics, have now become weaponized as political instruments. And that, again, is another really damaging trend for our democracy.”
