Donald Trump Wants To “Hijack” 2020 Election, Joe Biden Tells L.A. Donors

Joe Biden, continuing his fundraising swing through Los Angeles, accused President Donald Trump of trying to “hijack an election” by seeking Ukraines help.

Bidens comments at a San Marino, CA fundraiser this afternoon came just hours after the release of a whistleblower complaint. An unnamed intelligence official accused Trump of trying to pressure the Ukrainian president into investigating Biden and his son, Hunter, for conflicts of interest. Biden was Vice President when Hunter Biden was the director of a Ukrainian gas company that was once under investigation.

Biden, speaking to about 130 guests, read from the complaint and said that there was “not one shred of evidence” showing wrongdoing by he or his son. He cited a recent interview that a former Ukrainian prosecutor gave to the Washington Post that refuted Trumps claims.

“Theres nothing anybody in my family did wrong…at all,” Biden said, according to a pool report.

The fundraiser was held at the home of Jules and Amy Buenabenta, with Joe Waz and Cynthia Telles among the co-hosts.

Jules Buenabenta is president of an equipment financing corporation. Waz is senior strategic adviser to Comcast Corporation, and Telles is founding director of the UCLA Hispanic Neuropsychiatric Center of Excellence.

Earlier, Bidens campaign reacted more fully to the release of the whistleblower complaint.

“Today we have confirmed that President Trumps efforts to have a foreign country intervene in our domestic politics were not confined to a single call, but instead part of a larger, months-long campaign,” Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said in a statement. “Vice President Biden couldnt have been more right last night when he told Jimmy Kimmel that the events of yesterday were an “18 out of 10″ on the outlandish scale. But today is much worse than that.”

Bedingfield also pointed to reports of Trumps outraged reaction today. At a private event in New York, the president reportedly suggested that the whistleblower and those who helped him were “almost a spy” and that they were committing an act of treason. He also called reporters “scum.” The Los Angeles Times published an audio recording of TRead More – Source