Democratic Party frontrunner for the US Presidential
election, Joe Biden, has reacted to US President Donald Trump's latest
corruption allegations against him and his son, saying he has no plans to go
'anywhere'.
Biden, former Vice President under Barack Obama has been the
subject of a series of blasts from Trump and the Republican party after the
Democrats began impeachment proceedings against Trump last week for allegedly
pressuring a vulnerable ally in Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son,
Hunter Biden, over corruption allegations before they could receive $400m
military aid from the U.S.
According to Trump, Biden used his vice-presidential powers
to enforce the sack of a prosecutor who was investigating his son, Hunter, over
corruption allegations while he was a board director at Ukranian energy
company, Burisma Holdings.
Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani also claimed in recent TV
interviews that Biden was not only corrupt in dealings with Ukraine but also
dealings with China, leading Biden's legal team to serve papaers to news
organizations and TV networks to stop granting Giuliani interviews.
Trump took to his Twitter handle to share a video of the
Bidens with a Ukranian gas executive and circled their heads with a love emoji,
calling the Bidens 'stone crooked', but Biden has rejected such claims saying
he and his son are innocent and that Trump's plans to harm him politically
won't work.
''Let me make something clear to Trump and his hatchet men
and the special interests funding his attacks against me,' Biden said in
prepared remarks ahead of an appearance in Reno, Nevada, on Wednesday night,
U.S time.
'I'm not going anywhere. You're not going to destroy me. And
you're not going to destroy my family.
'I don't care how much money you spend or how dirty the
attacks get,' said Biden.
During a joint press conference with Finland's president,
Sauli Niinistö, Trump said he brought up Biden and his son's dealings with
Ukraine in the July phone call with Ukraine's president Zelensky because as the
president he had a duty to report corruption.
Biden, in return, accused Trump of abuse of power;
'He did it (pressure Ukraine's presient to investigate
Biden) because, like every bully in history - he's afraid,'
'He's afraid of just how badly I would beat him next
November.'
