DeSantis-aligned PAC Never Back Down released a blistering ad on Tuesday attacking President Joe Biden over allegations that he allegedly accepted $5 million in bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch.

The ad accuses of the Biden and his son, Hunter, of accepting bribe money from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, drawing on allegations made in an FBI confidential human source report uncovered by Republican investigators in Congress. The ad accuses the Biden administration of holding a double-standard in enforcing laws, and touts Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is running for president, as the candidate to fix a broken justice system.

“For years, the Biden crime family cashed in on Joe’s influence and power, especially in Ukraine where Hunter and Joe secretly received millions of dollars in bribes from the gas company Burisma,” the ad begins. “And when a Ukrainian prosecutor tried to investigate Burisma’s corruption, Biden bribed Ukraine’s president to fire the prosecutor.”

The prosecutor was Ukraine’s former prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, who Biden, as U.S. vice president, had a hand in ousting in 2016. Shokin was under suspicion of corruption and widely mistrusted internationally. He was also pushing an investigation into Burisma while Hunter Biden sat on the company’s board.

Then-Vice President Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees from then-Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko unless Shokin was fired.

“Well, son of a b****, he got fired,” Biden related later at a Council on Foreign Relations event in 2018.

The DeSantis ad suggested that Trump’s first impeachment was part of an attempt to cover up corruption and protect Biden.

“When Trump tried to get to the bottom of it, Democrats impeached him and the FBI hid Hunter’s laptop, burying the damning evidence it contained. Now, we know Biden is hoarding classified documents,” the ad says. “And Biden’s DOJ? They don’t care. Is Biden hiding the evidence of his get rich quick scheme?”

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The ad then touts DeSantis as the candidate to rein in a rogue Justice Department and FBI. DeSantis released his plan to reform the Justice Department earlier this week.

“We need a president who will get to the bottom of it and end the weaponization of our justice system. Ron DeSantis will,” the ad says.

The Biden Crime Family's scheme in Ukraine is being revealed — and DOJ is scrambling to bury the apparent connection to the classified documents found in Joe Biden's garage. pic.twitter.com/kbGPaokyyF

— Never Back Down (@NvrBackDown24) June 14, 2023

Former President Mike Pence pushed back on efforts during an interview this week to get him to commit to pardoning former President Donald Trump if the former president ends up getting convicted in the federal criminal case.

Pence made the remarks during an interview on the “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show” on Wednesday when asked about Trump being indicted on 37 felony counts for his alleged retention of national defense information, his alleged attempts to obstruct the investigation, and for allegedly lying to prosecutors in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation.

Co-host Clay Travis pressed Pence to commit to pardoning Trump, declaring that the charges were political in nature. Former Trump Attorney General William Barr, who has defended Trump against other instances of political persecution, has strongly pushed back on claims that Trump is the victim in this case.

“Well, first off, these are serious charges,” Pence said. “And as I said, I can’t defend what’s been alleged, but the president does deserve to make his defense. And I would say to each one of you, look, I’ve been a former governor. I’ve actually granted pardons to people and I take the pardon authority very seriously. It’s an enormously important power of someone in an executive position. And I just think it’s premature to have any conversation about that right now.”

Travis claimed that Pence’s decision to let the legal process play out before making a decision was “not stepping up on the front of leadership.”

“I don’t think you know what the president’s defense is, do you?” Pence fired back. “I mean, what are the facts? I mean, look, we either believe in our judicial process in this country or we don’t. We either stand by the rule of law or we don’t.”

Travis appeared to take things personally, claiming that Pence was being “pretty disrespectful” over the issue.

Mike Pence refused to answer if he’d pardon Donald Trump on @clayandbuck today. And things got a bit heated as I pressed him on why he wouldn’t answer. Enjoy: pic.twitter.com/VTbzDK6lYR

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 14, 2023

Pence told Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro on Wednesday that Trump being arrested in Miami this week “was a sad day in the life of this nation.”

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“I mean, literally, to see a former President of the United States in the dock and face charges in a criminal indictment, I think is deeply discouraging to millions of Americans,” Pence said. “That being said, you know, no one’s above the law. And as Americans, we’re innocent until proven guilty and I had the opportunity to review the indictment over the weekend. And I will tell you, these are serious charges and I can’t defend what is alleged, but the president deserves his day in court.”

The former vice president told Shapiro that the case was taking place against the backdrop of “years of politicization in the Department of Justice” and that it was “hard to believe politics didn’t play a role” in the case. He said that, if elected president, he would clean house and restore confidence that there was equal treatment under the law at the DOJ.