Opinion: What impeachment? Trump reiterates call for foreign governments to investigate his foes (via latimesopinion)
You’ve got to hand it to President Trump — when he says he doesn’t see anything wrong with asking a foreign leader to go after his political rivals, he really means it.
In a July 25 call, Trump asked new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with the U.S. attorney general and Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate the Bidens’ activities in the Ukraine in the mid-2010s. While Biden was the Obama administration’s point man in Ukraine, his son was on the board of a major Ukrainian energy company that came under scrutiny for alleged corruption.
that Ukrainians had fooled U.S. investigators into believing Russians were the ones who’d hacked the Democratic National Committee computers in 2016.Trump has defended the conversation with Zelensky as “perfect” and insisted there was no quid pro quo, ignoring the obvious problem of a U.S. president asking a foreign government to help his reelection campaign. Trump reiterated that point Thursday morning, then held forth at length about why Ukraine should investigate the Bidens.
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