A photo has surfaced that shows former Vice President Joe Biden posing with his son Hunter and Devon Archer, who served with Hunter on the board of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings, during a 2014 golf outing in the Hamptons.
Joe Biden, now a leading Democratic presidential candidate, told Fox News last month that he had never talked with his son about his foreign business interests.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden said, before pivoting to President Trump. “I know Trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader. You should be looking at Trump.”
Hunter told The New Yorker in July that he and his father had spoken about his overseas work “just once.”
The photo, first obtained by “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” was taken in August 2014, a source told Fox News.
News reports show the former veep in the Hamptons at the time. Hunter joined Burisma Holdings, where he was paid $50,000 a month, in April 2014.
Trump and GOP lawmakers claim Biden threatened in 2016 to cancel $1 billion in guaranteed loans unless Ukraine ditched its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was under pressure from the US, a number of Western countries and the International Monetary Fund, accused of being weak on prosecuting corruption.
Ukraine’s Parliament voted Shokin out soon after.
Trump said his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he urged him to investigate Biden, was an effort to root out corruption in the country.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched an impeachment inquiry last week after a whistleblower complaint revealed the call between Trump and Zelensky.
Ukrainian officials have said there is no evidence that Biden or his son did anything wrong.
Requests for comment from Biden’s campaign weren’t immediately returned.