Fact-checking Trump's claims about the Bidens in China
By Tara Subramaniam
Updated 2:01 PM ET, Fri September 27, 2019
... Trump .. also at times made vague allegations about the Bidens' ties to China ...
During his remarks at the United Nations on Sept. 25 with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump said, "When Biden's son walks out of China with $1.5 billion in a fund, and the biggest funds in the world can't get money out of China, and he's there for one quick meeting and he flies in on Air Force Two, I think that's a horrible thing. I think it's a horrible thing." Details on the deal that the President cited come from conservative author Peter Schweizer's newest book "Secret Empires."
A day later, in an exchange with reporters on Sept. 26, Trump implicated the elder Biden in his allegations, saying, "But Adam Schiff doesn't talk about Joe Biden and his son walking away with millions of dollars from Ukraine and then millions of dollars from China. Walking away, in a quick meeting, walking away with millions of dollars."
We've already fact-checked the President's claims about the Bidens and Ukraine. Trump's newest allegations involving China are similarly misleading ...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/fact-check-trump-bidens-china/index.html
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