A former federal prosecutor who reportedly notified the Trump Justice Department about an alleged Biden pay-to-play scheme in 2018 spoke out to Fox News on Tuesday.
Bud Cummins, who served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas during the George W. Bush administration, said he was in touch with a "foreign witness" who could attest Joe Biden was engaged in alleged influence peddling or bribery in connection to son Hunter Biden's Ukrainian business dealings.
He told "Jesse Watters Primetime" he was approached by "intermediaries" who claimed the Ukrainian prosecutor-general had evidence and wanted to present it "discreetly" to the United States government.
Cummins, who was first identified earlier this week in a breaking report by investigative journalist John Solomon, said he was not intending to vouch for the veracity of the witness, but instead to avail the Justice Department of potential wrongdoing by the Bidens.
"I only had a general idea of what the nature of the evidence [was]. They claimed to have some ledgers about money transfers; money laundering. And they had eyewitnesses who were part of the transactions; actually making the transactions happen," Cummins said.
Fox News host Jesse Watters asked whether claims the Justice Department "shut down" Cummins' overtures were true.
"I made an attempt to set up a meeting to interview these folks and see...
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