民主党领跑者乔·拜登告诉深夜节目主持人吉米·基梅尔，他处理当前围绕自己和唐纳德·特朗普总统的愤怒的方式是“出去痛扁他”
拜登在谈到特朗普与乌克兰总统沃洛迪米尔·泽伦斯基的谈话时，表示很难避免总统犯下了可弹劾罪行的结论。
“根据他们今天承认的材料，在我看来，很难避免这样的结论，那就是这是一种可弹劾的罪行，违反了宪法责任。但我对参众两院处理这件事的能力有信心，我的工作就是走出去击败他，”他对观众的掌声说，并补充说，他不想让这个问题分散他对竞选的注意力。
拜登比任何人都更容易被针对特朗普总统的指控所分散注意力——据一名前乌克兰总统顾问称，特朗普总统希望与泽兰斯基对话，条件是拜登和他的儿子亨特要进行讨论。
事实上，特朗普在周三公布的特朗普和泽兰斯基之间的电话摘要中说:“关于拜登的儿子有很多谈论，拜登停止了起诉，很多人想知道这件事，所以无论你能和司法部长做什么都很好。拜登到处吹嘘他停止了起诉，所以如果你能调查的话...对我来说这听起来很可怕。”
总统在推特上再次重申了他希望看到拜登接受调查的愿望，他说他支持“所谓的”告密者的透明度，但同时也坚持乔·拜登和他的儿子亨特的透明度，即数百万美元的透明度...从乌克兰和中国带走。”
然而，拜登告诉金梅尔，他并不担心特朗普的指控，他说:“这与我和我的家人无关。世界上没有一个单独的合法记者会相信这一点。他们揭穿了他过去所说的一切...自从朱利安尼不久前开始这个项目，”拜登告诉金梅尔。
“但看起来，比他的行为是否怪异更有利害关系。拜登继续说:“有人会提前打电话给一个外国国家的首脑，扣留大量急需的军事援助，以防止乌克兰境内的俄罗斯分裂分子接管乌克兰，然后问你基本上能不能和鲁迪·朱利安尼合作——他就要来了。”。
“我学到的东西，我们最近都学到的东西，在那份200字的声明中，谈到了让司法部参与进来。这是如此公然的滥用权力，我认为它是站不住脚的。”
BIDEN ON TRUMP UKRAINE ALLEGATIONS: 'MY JOB IS TO GO OUT AND FLAT BEAT HIM'
Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden told late night host Jimmy Kimmel that his way of dealing with the current furore surrounding himself and President Donald Trump is "to go out and flat beat him."
Discussing the allegations around Trump's conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Biden said it was hard to avoid the conclusion that the president had committed an impeachable offense.
"Based on material that they acknowledged today it seems to me it's awful hard to avoid the conclusion it is an impeachable offense and a violation of constitutional responsibility. But I am confident of the ability of the House and Senate to deal with this, my job is just to go out and flat beat him," he said to applause form the audience, adding that he didn't want to let the issue distract him from his campaign.
Biden more than anyone could understandably become distracted by the allegations against President Trump—who, according to a former Ukranian presidential adviser, wanted to speak with Zelensky on condition that Biden and his son Hunter were discussed.
Indeed, in a summary of the phone call between Trump and Zelensky released on Wednesday, Trump said: "There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me."
And the president once again repeated his desire to see Biden investigated in a tweet that said he supported transparency on the "so-called" whistleblower but "also insist on transparency from Joe Biden and his son Hunter, on the millions of dollars that have been quickly and easily... taken out of Ukraine and China."
However, Biden told Kimmel he was not concerned about Trump's allegations, saying: "This is not about me and my family. There is not one single solitary legitimate journalist in the world who'd give any credibility to this. They've debunked all of what he's had to say for the past...since Giuliani started this a while ago," Biden told Kimmel.
"But look there's much more at stake than whether or not he's acting so bizarrely. The idea that someone would call a head of a foreign state, ahead of time withhold significant military aid that's badly needed in order to prevent the Russian separatists who are in Ukraine, from taking over Ukraine, and then ask basically can you cooperate with Rudy Giuliani—he's coming over," Biden continued.
"And the thing I learned, the thing we all learned recently, in that statement that 200 word statement released was talked about getting the Justice department engaged in this. It's such a blatant abuse of power that I don't think it can stand."
