The 77-year-old Biden also responded forcefully to a suggestion by the questioner that he was "too old" to be running for president.
Business
Standard : Democratic presidential candidate Joe
Biden snapped at a questioner during a campaign event in Iowa on
Thursday after the man asked about his son's business dealings in
Ukraine.
"You're
a damn liar, man," the former vice president said in a rare
flash of anger at the town hall in New Hampton, Iowa.
After
first saying that President Donald Trump is "messing around in
Ukraine,"
the man told Biden "you on the other hand sent your son over
there, to get him a job and work for a gas company.
"He
had no experience," the man said. "You're selling access to
the president."
"That's
not true and no one has ever said that," Biden responded after
calling the man a liar.
Biden's
son Hunter served on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma from
2014 to 2019 and was reportedly paid $50,000 a month.
Hunter
Biden has not been accused of any wrongdoing but questions have been
raised about the propriety of him taking the position while his
father was vice president and dealing with Ukraine issues.
Trump
is facing impeachment in the Democratic-controlled House of
Representatives after asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
to investigate the Bidens.
The
77-year-old Biden also responded forcefully to a suggestion by the
questioner that he was "too old" to be running for
president.
"I'm
not sedentary," Biden said. "The reason I'm running is
because I've been around a long time and I know more than most people
know and I can get things done.
"You
want to check my shape on it, let's do pushups together, man,"
he said. "Let's run. Let's do whatever you want to do. Let's
take an IQ test."
At
another point, he appeared to say "Look, fat, look, here's the
deal" -- but this was strongly disputed by Biden aide Symone
Sanders, who tweeted that he had said: "Look, facts."
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