when he served as vice president during the Obama administration in exchange for an influence on policy decisions.
In a TV segment, the hosts and guests suggested that the United States is sending military aid to Ukraine to help defeat Russia in the ongoing war because the Eastern European country controls Biden and that U.S. foreign policy is influenced by Ukrainian PresidentThe Russian TV hosts and guests didn't specify the Ukrainian company they were referring to, but an ongoing GOP-led investigation is looking into the connection between the Biden family and Burisma, a Ukrainian oil and gas company.
"We are talking about the fact that a foreign country greased the palm of a sitting U.S. vice president. It was done repeatedly. Eventually, the person became president. The foreign country that greased the palm 100% lever of pressure over the incumbent president. So Biden is, in fact, absolutely controllable by the Ukrainians," a Russian TV host said, according to a clip posted with English subtitles toPresident Joe Biden speaks during on Friday in West Hartford, Connecticut.
"There was a phrase that this approach of the U.S. towards Ukraine and flooding it with money is a result of blackmail. Ukrainians are blackmailing Biden. Biden says, 'Ok, I'll give you money,'" a Russian state TV guest said,with English subtitles that was posted Saturday to Twitter by Julia Davis, a columnist at The Daily Beast and creator of the Russian Media Monitor.
Another Russian TV guest suggested that"you'd have to be a total cretin to believe that the foreign policy of the United States depends on Ukraine or the director of some Ukrainian company," to which the first guest said,"Ok, then I'll be a cretin."