As you know from the extensive, real-time documentation I have provided, Vice President Biden was not a topic of our discussions. In hindsight, I now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the Ukrainian company Burisma, as equivalent to investigating former Vice President Biden. I saw them as very different -- the former being appropriate and unremarkable, the latter being unacceptable.
In retrospect, I should have seen that connection differently, and had I done so, I would have raised my own objections.
I don't find it plausible or credible that Joe Biden would have been influenced in his duties.
It is not credible to me that former Vice President Biden would have been influenced in any way by financial or personal motives in carrying out his duties as Vice President.
The accusation that Vice President Biden acted inappropriately did not seem at all credible to me.
The allegations against Vice President Biden are self-serving and not credible.
Mayor Giuliani raised, and I rejected, the conspiracy theory that Vice President Biden would have been influenced in his duties as Vice President by money paid to his son. As I testified previously, I have known Vice President Biden for 24 years. He is an honorable man and I hold him in the highest regard.