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► President Trump is now publicly calling on China to investigate various Bidens for some sort of invented transgression. As NBC News reports:
“China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.
While Trump said he hasn’t requested Chinese President Xi Jinping investigate the Bidens, the public call mirrors the private behavior on which Democrats are partially basing their impeachment inquiry— using the office of the presidency to press a foreign leader to investigate a political rival.
It is “certainly something we can start thinking about, because I’m sure that President Xi does not like being on that kind of scrutiny, where billions of dollars is taken out of his country by a guy that just got kicked out of the Navy,” Trump said Thursday of asking China to probe the Bidens. “He got kicked out of the Navy, all of the sudden he’s getting billions of dollars. You know what they call that? They call that a payoff.”
Now it’s “billions” of dollars. By this time next week, Trump will be alleging that the Bidens pocketed trillions.
In a related story, CNN’s Chris Cillizza takes us through the transcript of Trump’s bananas press conference on Wednesday alongside the President of Finland.
► Welcome to the shitshow, Vice President Mike Pence. From the Washington Post:
► Congressman Scott Tipton (R-Cortez) dips the tip of his little toe into impeachment waters.
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