'I was embarrassed for the institution. I was there a long time...and I never saw anything quite like that.'
This week in Iowa Biden only briefly mentioned the trial, ignoring questions from reporters on the topic, and telling the crowd at a campaign event in Fort Dodge, Iowa:"The next president is going to inherit a country that is divided -- no matter what happens in this impeachment trial."
“I didn't get to see it all because I was out here campaigning in Iowa, doing town meetings. But what I saw the reruns of...I have a great respect and reverence for the Senate, for real, and...I was embarrassed for the institution. I was there a long time...and I never saw anything quite like that," Biden said of the contentious first day of arguments between the House Democrats serving as impeachment managers and the legal defense team for President Trump.
Bates called Biden's efforts to get rid of Shokin, a move supported by the European Union, International Monetary Fund and broader international community,"a monumental, bipartisan, international anti-corruption victory," and had harsher words for Trump's claim that Biden acted inappropriately and was influence by the position his son held on the board of Burisma.
However Biden has still faced questions about the optics of having his adult son sit on the board of a company under investigation in a country where he represented American diplomatic efforts and pushed for anti-corruption reforms.
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