Trump won’t destroy me, says Joe Biden

Washington: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that US President Donald Trump “won’t destroy him” or his family over the latter’s call for an investigation against the former Vice President and his son.
Trump’s request for an investigation into the Bidens, directed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July 25 phone call, has resulted in an impeachment inquiry against the American leader launched by the House Democrats, reports Xinhua news agency.
In the Washington Post opinion piece published on Saturday, Biden said Trump seeking help from foreign countries in order to “extract political favours” was an “abuse of power,” which he claimed “is the defining characteristic of the Trump presidency”.
“President Trump is abusing the power of the presidency and is wholly unfit to be President,” Biden wrote in a direct attack on his 2020 election rival.
“He is using the highest office in the land to advance his personal political interests instead of the national interest.” A whistleblower complaint filed in late August by an unidentified intelligence official alleged that Trump asked Zelensky during the call to probe Biden and his son Hunter, who once worked for Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings that was accused of corruption.