Former top State Department official says the United States isn't living up to its ideals

Former Assistant Secretary of State Robert B. Charles said Tuesday that the U.S. is setting a bad example by not living up to its ideals. 

"We're not living up to our own ideals," Charles told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "And we have a president of the United States who, as a Vice President of the United States...opened 20 accounts and had money shipped to him by foreign nationals. Looks to me like they were trying to avoid suspicious transaction reports."

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced last month that the committee had uncovered information suggesting that "10 or 12 Biden family members" participated in efforts to "launder or hide" money from "Communist China and other countries around the world."

The White House pushed back against Comer's probe, claiming it is an "evidence-free, politically-motivated 'investigation'" into the Biden family.

Charles said that this kind of behavior allows adversaries of the United States to take advantage of and mock the country. 

"We're letting ourselves down and we're letting our allies down," he continued. "And we're inviting our adversaries, in particular countries like China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, to compare themselves with us and say, 'Look, you got a corrupt corrupt president too.'"

"When our leaders hemorrhage integrity, have no respect for those that they're talking to, and ultimately showcase the worst sides of human nature, not the best, we're letting ourselves down," he concluded.