Former vice president Joe Biden doesn’t have time to be bothered with Democrats’ impeachment malarkey.

A reporter asked Biden about his willingness to “appear voluntarily” in the proceedings during a stop on the campaign trail Wednesday, and the elderly statesman quickly shut down the idea.

“No, I’m not going to let them take their eye off the ball,” Biden said. “The president is the one who has committed impeachable crimes, and I’m not going to let him divert from that. Not going to let anybody to divert from that.”

He then shifted to something else.

“Like you’ve heard me say a lot of times, if he’s worried about corruption, I released 21 years of my tax returns. Let him release some of his,” Biden zinged.

“You said yesterday, if you could wave a magic wand, you would beat him at the ballot box,” another reporter chimed in. “Why not help the Democrats build the case on Capitol Hill with the country for impeaching the president, especially since you’re so involved in it?”

The question references Biden’s comments caught on video about threatening to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees from Ukraine during his time as Obama’s VP and point person with the country. The threat, Biden said, forced Ukrainian government officials to fire a prosecutor who was investigating corruption at the national gas company Burisma Holdings, which paid Biden’s son Hunter millions to serve as a board member.

President Trump asked the Ukrainian president to look into Biden’s claim, as well as rumors Ukrainian officials aided the Clinton campaign in 2016. That request is now central to the Democrat impeachment effort in the House.

“Look … I think my job, I think the House knows what they’re doing,” Biden told the reporter. “I think they’re moving in the right direction. I think the president has basically impeached himself. He’s indicted himself by his own words and I think that in the meantime what I should be doing is focusing on if in fact he survives the trial in the Senate, on beating him.

“But, uh, look, I’ve been through, as I’ve recently said before, two impeachment trials. And uh, they’re very serious business. They’re very serious undertakings,” Biden said. “And I think the public will get the opportunity to see it all and they’ll get to make up their own mind.

“I don’t think it’s so certain that when all the facts come out in the context of a trial …,” he said.

Biden alleged he read or watched something somewhere – “maybe I read it when I was getting on the bus” – “that Republicans acknowledge he did what he did, but don’t think it’s impeachable.

“Whoa,” he said with a chuckle. “Now I may be wrong about what I quickly perused, but that’s one heck of a defense, if that’s the defense.

“So there’s a long way to go on this,” Biden said, “let’s see where it takes us.”