Former President Donald Trump alleged Monday that Vice President Kamala Harris was aware that the Biden family was raking in millions of dollars in foreign money while Joe Biden was vice president.
In remarks delivered at a manufacturing plant in York, Pa., Trump, 78, referenced a report released by House Republicans earlier in the day which accused Biden, 81, of committing at least two impeachable offenses — “abuse of power” and “obstruction of justice or obstruction of Congress” — by corruptly abetting and concealing a $27 million “influence-peddling racket” dating back to his time as vice president.
“Remember, comrade Kamala, she knew everything, and the senators knew what was going on,” Trump charged.
“There is no way someone could have stolen that much money without Democrat senators knowing what was going on,” the Republican presidential candidate alleged.
Harris, 59, was a US senator from California, from 2017 to 2021, before she served in the White House under Biden.
Trump claimed that Hunter Biden “wined and dined” Democratic senators ”at Joe’s houses,” where they “saw his boats, the way he lived — they saw his beautiful mansions.”
Emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop show that at least one Democratic senator, Chris Coons of Delaware, met with the first son and one of his business partners in June 2010, before Coons was elected to the US Senate.
“I would have made billions of dollars in this job if I wanted to play that way,” Trump quipped.
“I don’t need the money … I lost billions of dollars [being president],” he claimed.
Republicans in the House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means committees launched an investigation in the president last September after evidence surfaced that Biden repeatedly interacted with his relatives’ foreign business partners during his vice presidency — and following allegations from two IRS investigators of a far-reaching Justice Department cover-up.
The report accuses Biden of aiding the business ventures of his son and brother and then attempting to cover the family’s tracks by resisting oversight from Congress.
Biden, who announced his looming retirement July 21 after a Democratic mutiny over his mental acuity, is not expected to face an impeachment vote in the House.
The Harris campaign did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
