Projected US President-elect Joe Biden told the CNN broadcaster in an interview that his family will not engage in any business that could interfere with the US’ state affairs.
On Thursday, Rudy Giuliani, a personal lawyer of President Donald Trump, said that the US Democratic Party could press on the projected president-elect, using the information concerning alleged corruption involving his son Hunter Biden, who purportedly used his father’s position to make deals with Ukraine and Chinese businesses in the past.
“My son, my family will not be involved in any business, any enterprise, that is in conflict with or appears to be in conflict, with the appropriate distance from, the presidency and government,” Biden said on Friday.
The projected president-elect added that the presence of US incumbent President Donald Trump at the inauguration ceremony would be important to demonstrate the completion of the peaceful transfer of power.
“I think it would be important only in one sense. Not in a personal sense. Important in a sense that we are able to demonstrate the end of this chaos that he has created, that there is a peaceful transfer of power within competing parties, standing there, shaking hands and move on, I think it is important,” Biden said.
Major US media outlets have projected Democratic nominee Joe Biden to be the winner of the November 3 presidential election. Official results are yet to be announced. US President Donald Trump has said he would leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for Biden. Trump has repeatedly stated that his victory in the November presidential election was stolen via massive fraud.
Meanwhile, Biden has said last week’s assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is likely to complicate relations between Washington and Tehran.
“All those things, I think, are going to be very difficult,” Biden told CNN in an interview Thursday after a senior US administration official claimed that Israel was behind the assassination.
“The bottom line is that we can’t allow Iran to get nuclear weapons,” Biden said, criticizing President Donald Trump for pulling the US out of the 2015 nuclear deal that Biden helped former President Barack Obama craft.
“He has pulled out to get something tougher, and what have they done? They’ve increased the ability for them to have nuclear material. They’re moving closer to the ability to be able to have enough material for a nuclear weapon. And there’s the missile issues,” Biden argued.
The former vice president stressed that the US needs partners in its relations with Iran, suggesting that his administration could work together with Russia and China on many issues.
Amid unconfirmed reports that Trump might not attend his Jan. 20 inauguration ceremony, Biden said Trump should attend, partially to avoid pointing a negative picture for the rest of the world.
“It’s important in the sense that we are able to demonstrate the end of this chaos that he’s created, that there is peaceful transfer of power with the competing parties standing there, shaking hands and moving on,” he said.
