Descent continues
What’s new? Trump on the lawn telling reporters he did tell Ukraine to “investigate” Bidens.
Trump admits he asked Ukraine to dig up dirt on Biden, and asks China to do the same. Like Nixon telling America “I ordered the break in.”
Donald Trump, speaking outside the White House, said Ukraine should investigate his rival Joe Biden – exactly the thing Trump is under threat of impeachment for – and added that China should also start a probe.
“If they were honest about it, they would start a major investigation into the Bidens,” Trump said when asked what he wanted Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to do.
“I would say President Zelenskiy, if it was me, I would start an investigation into the Bidens.”
Trump said China should also start an investigation into the Bidens, and suggested he might ask the country to do so.
Asked if he had requested President Xi of China to help investigate the Bidens, POTUS replied: “I haven’t but it’s certainly something we can start thinking about.”
Well, except for the fact that it’s illegal. Very illegal. More illegal than sloppy parking.
Meanwhile Lindsey Graham is Helping.
Storm clouds are continuing to gather around Donald Trump over the Ukraine scandal, but that hasn’t stopped his faithful confidante, Lindsay Graham, from reportedly urging foreign governments to work with William Barr in investigating the origins of the Mueller inquiry.
Graham is said to have written to the prime ministers of Australia, Italy and the UK to request their “continued cooperation with attorney general Barr as the Department of Justice continues to investigate the origins and extent of foreign influence in the 2016 election”.
The investigation is an attempt to discredit Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
One of Trump’s many retweets over the past few hours:
So adult.
If nothing happens to Trump, then we are lost. Not because of Trump totally, but because there will no longer be any way to keep any president in line, on task, and keeping his oath of office. He is setting a dangerous precedent, and someone – preferably Congress, but I’d accept the voters doing it – needs to tell him this isn’t okay. That message needs to be sent hard and strong.
I particularly liked the part where he slams politicians who have sons that benefit from their office. Yeah, right? I hate that too…Donald Jr. Eric. Ivanka (not technically a son, but the idea is the same). So all his children are going to stop doing that now, I suppose?
Oh, wait. Self knowledge is not one of his strengths. (Knowledge is not one of his strengths).
iknklast, it has to be Congress, followed by the courts. If he only loses the next election without suffering the legal consequences of his actions then the way will be clear for future presidents to emulate him. It doesn’t bear thinking about what an equally destructive but far more intelligent president could achieve if Trump’s actions are allowed to set a precedent.
Speaking of legal consequences, an odd thought came to me recently. Since all ex-presidents retain Secret Service protection for life, if Trump ends up actually going to prison (unlikely, but a lovely image nonetheless) would his bodyguard detail have to accompany him there?
AoS, that’s sort of what I’m thinking, too. I just fear that option may not be available with the current power hierarchy in the Senate (and probably not on the court). He needs a solid thumping, but he seems able to survive everything.