Trump vs. Biden
President Trump ratcheted up his attacks on former vice president Joe Biden this week, alleging shady dealings with Ukraine and blasting “Scranton Joe” for supposedly having “deserted” his native Pennsylvania, a prized swing state with 20 electoral votes that each man has won before.
“He left you, folks. He left you for another state,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Montoursville, Pa. But in reality, Biden was a fourth-grader in 1953, when his family moved to Delaware so his father could make ends meet.
In a Fox News interview the day before, Trump dropped more serious accusations, echoing lines of reporting in conservative media and the New York Times.
As one of the stories goes, Biden as vice president browbeat the government of Ukraine into ousting the country’s top prosecutor — a man named Viktor Shokin, who, according to Trump, “was after” Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Although Hunter Biden sat on the board of a natural gas company in the prosecutor’s sights, no evidence shows the younger Biden was being investigated. Ukrainian authorities say they have no evidence of wrongdoing for either Biden.
As the other story goes, Hunter Biden struck up business with China around the same time he flew on Air Force Two with his father to that country. (That’s all there is to that accusation.)
We rounded up four of Trump’s attacks, each of them a Three Pinocchio special. As for fact checks of Biden, here are three we’ve published this month.
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