Trump's lawyer hears from some associates of his that there may have been something shady about hunter's ucrane work for the company barisma. They claim brisma holding limited and its direct tor hunta biden are involved in corruption affair. And then it lays out a stone coal a money wandering situation that he was involved in for 14 point six million dollars. Trump became obsessed that, you know, this, this would prove job iden's corruption. That is when he had his famous phone call with the ukranes at the time, new esident volodimir zalenski.
Hunter Biden may not be the archcriminal that conservatives describe, but his actions present problems for his father (the president of the United States). Vox's Andrew Prokop explains.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and edited by Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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