The President of the United States of America Joe Biden has found himself in “hot potato” after former Attorney General, Bill Barr, accused him of lying to the American people.
This came to light following an interview with Fox News on Monday where Bill Barr accused President Biden of having “lied to the American people” during a presidential debate when he called the New York Post’s exposure of his son Hunter Biden’s emails “a Russian plant.”
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Biden’s fiery denials came days after a former President Trump’s personal counsel, Rudy Giuliani handed over files to the New York Post which he said came from Hunter Biden’s laptop and included an email supposedly from a Burisma adviser, where Hunter Biden was a board member, thanking the younger Biden for arranging a meeting with the then vice president Biden.
The Trump camp and opponents of Biden pointed to the email as evidence to support a theory that Biden helped oust Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin to prevent an investigation into Burisma.
The words of Bill Barr in the interview with Fox News were, “I was very disturbed during the debate when candidate Biden lied to the American people about the laptop.
“He’s squarely confronted with the laptop, and he suggested that it was Russian disinformation and pointed to the letter written by some intelligence people that was baseless, which he knew was a lie; And I was shocked by that.”
Barr added that he believed the suppression of the laptop was an example of “election interference” but said he did not want to “venture an opinion” on whether President Biden could face any “legal liability” for his role in the laptop controversy.
Nevertheless, when Fox News co-host, Sandra Smith further impelled Barr on whether Hunter’s laptop could become a “problem” for the White House, Barr responded by saying, “From a political standpoint now, this is in people’s consciousness, it had been suppressed up until now, obviously they have a “hot potato” and just to see how they handle it will be interesting.”