Trump says Putin "should release" any info on Hunter Biden

• Trump in 2016 called on Russia to find emails associated with his election opponent Hillary Clinton: “I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” said the then-Republican nominee.
• “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

In Tuesday's interview, Trump cited the findings of a partisan and highly controversial investigation by Senate Republicans that was published in 2020 and "produced little new evidence of wrongdoing," according to Politico.

The big picture: Trump has previously laid out unfounded claims that the late Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov's widow had donated $3.5 million to a company he claimed is connected to Hunter Biden, per CNN.

• Hunter Biden has denied the allegations and his lawyer has denied he was the owner of the company in question, per CNN.

What he's saying: "She gave him $3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it," Trump said in the interview, which was conducted at Mar-a-Lago.

• "I think we should know that answer."
• Trump himself sought business with Luzhkov in the 1990s, according to Politico.