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Trump Campaign Focuses on Hunter Biden Emails as 'October Surprise'

Brian Padden

   Trailing in presidential polls in the final month of the campaign,
   President Donald Trump has seized upon recently disclosed emails
   allegedly from the son of Democratic candidate Joe Biden as an "October
   surprise" that could change the dynamics of the race.

   The unverified emails were obtained by Trump's personal attorney, Rudy
   Giuliani, purportedly from the laptop computer of Biden's son Hunter,
   who was a paid board member of Burisma, a Ukrainian-owned private
   energy company, while his father was vice president in the Obama White
   House and oversaw U.S.-Ukrainian relations.

   In one 2014 email allegedly from Vadym Pozharskyi, a Burisma adviser,
   Pozharskyi thanks Hunter Biden for arranging a meeting with the vice
   president. Biden's opponents point to this as "smoking gun" evidence
   that the Biden family benefited financially by providing Burisma access
   and preferential treatment from the vice president.

   The former vice president has denied the allegations of corruption, has
   said the alleged meeting with Pozharskyi never took place and has
   called the Trump campaign's focus on his son's past business dealings a
   distraction.

   "At this point in the campaign, you don't have much time left, so any
   arrow you have left in your quiver, however small, you're still going
   to try to shoot," said Mark Jones, a professor of politics and a
   political science fellow at the Baker Institute of Public Policy at
   Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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