Trump Says He ‘Should Start Thinking About’ Asking China To Investigate Biden

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President Donald Trump floated asking the Chinese government to investigate his 2020 rival Joe Biden on Thursday.

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Now about those tariffs…

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What would be so difficult about picking up the phone and saying “Madame Speaker, would you please impeach me?”

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I wish Richard Hofstadter were still with us to write a 2019 update on his Paranoid Style in American Politics. I bet he never dreamed it would one day completely conquer the Executive Branch…

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Go ahead Donnie, they will play you like an erhu.

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So tRump says things in public that were once only said in private. Self-impeachment must be his new hobby.

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Really. This is like some sort of political death wish…

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Well, well! We are already up to Article of Impeachment number 45! Matches his presidential #.

Ah, but he’ll raise it to near 100 before he’s ‘toast’!

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For once a reporter had the savvy to sucker Trump into further incriminating himself, rather than pitching softballs and then apologizing for it.

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I hear Nambia is willing to manufacture dirt on Biden. Spanky should go there.

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If nepotism is the issue, probably should start an investigation into Kevin McCarthy’s discriminated Cherokee in-laws

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Now he’s trying to get China to do his campaign work for him. Hey Binky, you bragged that you’re rich, why don’t YOU pay for it?

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I hear there may be better faux dirt next door in Pambia.

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Ya well it wasn’t only China. Also Trump claimed that McConnell told him the Ukraine call was innocent. Time to ask Mitch.

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Breaking the law in public again, so he can claim that he’s not breaking the law.

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Trump Says He ‘Should Start Thinking About’ Asking China To Investigate Biden

Don’t forget Poland!

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And then Xi says, I want to ask you a favor though…about those tariffs.

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OT, but the process of trying to protect Pence so that there’s a fallback has begun and this “split” narrative is part of it:

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