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Article snippet: MORE of engaging in a quid pro quo hours after his own acting chief of staff appeared to admit that the Trump administration had done the same with Ukraine before seeking to walk back his remarks. The president zeroed in on Joe and Hunter Biden during his campaign rally in Dallas in a continuation of his effort to paint the family as corrupt. "Look at the terrible foreign corruption of the Bidens. I hate to talk about him. You know why? I don’t think he's got a chance," Trump told the crowd. Trump said that the former vice president was in charge of Ukraine policy for the Obama administration and sought the firing of the then-Ukrainian prosecutor general while his son, Hunter "was paid massive sums of money [to] buy a Ukrainian energy company." "Now that’s what you call quid pro quo," Trump said. Trump ripped the news media for calling his allegations of corruption "unsubstantiated," despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden. The president's attacks on the former vice president came hours after acting White House chief of staff said during a briefing with reporters that aid for Ukraine was tied in part to Trump’s desire for help investigating the hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) server and 2016 election interference. “The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the things that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. And that is absolutely appropriate,” Mulvaney said. Mulvaney later sought to walk b... Link to the full article to read more