For Trump and Biden, debate fuels allegations of improper family foreign deals
Trump rolled out new charges aimed at Hunter Biden.
ByLucien Bruggeman and Matthew Mosk October 22, 2020, 9:37 PM
President Donald Trump leveled new attacks at the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, and the two candidates spent large chunks of Thursday night's debate sparring over crisscrossing allegations of improper foreign business dealings.
The president focused his attacks on allegations that Biden improperly profited from business endeavors that his son, Hunter Biden, has undertaken in Ukraine and China. The Democratic challenger fired back with reports that Trump has tried to strike business deals with the Chinese and even maintained a bank account there.
Prior to the high-stakes debate, Trump's campaign organized a hurried press conference to introduce a surprise guest -- a man who claims he had business dealings with the Biden family.
Tony Bobulinski, a self-described global businessman and retired Naval officer, accused the Bidens of misleading the public about their overseas business dealings -- a move intended to shift the public's focus to unsubstantiated and unproven allegations of corruption against the Democratic nominee and his family.
"I have heard Joe Biden say that he has never discussed business with Hunter. That is false," Bobulinski said. "I have firsthand knowledge of this because I directly dealt with the Biden family, including Joe Biden."
With little warning, Bobulinski appeared in a hotel ballroom to speak with the White House reporters who traveled with the president to Nashville, Tennessee, just hours before the candidates took the stage for the second and final debate before Election Day.
The pre-debate event set the stage for a series of attacks Trump leveled against Biden when the debate got underway.
"Somebody just had a news conference a little while ago who was essentially supposed to work with you and your family, but what he said was damning," Trump said. "And regardless of me, I think you have to clean it up and talk to the American people."
Biden shot back: "I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life."
Bobulinski's emergence came with fewer than 12 days until Election Day. The man who said he had worked to start a business venture with Hunter Biden accused the former vice president of lying about his knowledge of those foreign business dealings. Bobulinski has been advised by a former counsel from the Trump Administration who is currently on the payroll of the Trump Organization, sources told ABC News.
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