A Ukrainian politician sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department and identified as an 'active Russian agent' leaked more edited segments of a 2016 call between former Vice President Joe Biden and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during which Biden criticized the Trump transition team.
During the call, Poroshenko asked Biden to visit on Nov. 21, 2016, but the former vice president demurred. He said he worried that the incoming Trump administration would think he was trying to "game them" if he were to visit before they had been briefed."I don't plan on going away. As a private citizen, I plan on staying deeply engaged in the endeavor that you have begun and we have begun," he told Poroshenko.
"But if I go beforehand, I’m worried that they don't know enough, they will think I'm trying to game them. They will think I am trying to put them in a corner. They will question my motives in going before they are fully briefed. And I'm sure you understand that, you're a good negotiator," Biden continued.
Biden speaks before participating in a roundtable discussion with veterans, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla. from the same day of the Biden-Poroshenko call said the two "discussed Ukraine's reform trajectory and emphasized the need for continued swift progress, including on steps needed to secure Ukraine's next tranche of [International Monetary Fund] funding.
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