Joe Biden’s campaign issued a memo to media retailers on Monday warning them towards spreading “false accusations” driven by President Donald Trump and Republicans towards the former vice president.
The memo, released a day earlier than the start of Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, says there's “no evidence” for disproven claims pushed by the president that Biden sidelined a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating an power company that his son, Hunter, held a high-paid place with.
Trump pushed a “a malicious and conclusively debunked conspiracy principle” about Biden, deputy campaign supervisor Kate Bedingfield and senior marketing campaign adviser Tony Blinken wrote. “Not only is there no proof for the GOP’s malicious attacks on the Vice President, those assaults have been actively debunked.”
The memo represents an particularly robust rebuke of the GOP-backed conspiracy theories, which media “should state clearly and unambiguously that they have been discredited and debunked by authoritative sources,” Bedingfield and Blinken stated.
“To fail to clarify that the conspiracy principle and false accusations about Joe Biden have been comprehensively disproven, to artificially prop-up these egregious lies based mostly on the 'principle' that if partisans make accusations, they need to be handled as respectable whatever the details, is to make you an enabler of misinformation,” the memo warned reporters and media retailers.
Biden has insisted that neither he nor his son engaged in any wrongdoing.
Trump and Republican lawmakers have pushed to have Biden and his son testify at the impeachment trial, however Rep. Jerry Nadler, who’s serving as one of many impeachment managers, firmly rejected the thought throughout an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“This entire controversy about whether or not there ought to be witnesses can be a query of does the Senate need to have a truthful trial or are they a part of the coverup of the president?” Nadler stated. “Any Republican senator who says there ought to be no witnesses and even that witnesses must be negotiated is part of the coverup.”
Late last yr, Trump turned the third president in U.S. history to be impeached after blocking $400 million in assist to Ukraine as he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation into Biden’s activities.
Opening arguments for Trump’s impeachment trial will begin Tuesday.
Src: Biden campaign warns media against spreading Trump misinformation
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