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Joe Biden: Trump's Ukraine Pressure "Totally Inappropriate"

https://iowastartingline.com/2019/09/20/joe-biden-trumps-ukraine-pressure-totally-inappropriate/


Former Vice President Joe Biden responded in Iowa today to the reports that President Donald Trump had pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate him and his family. “It’s concerning to me that a president would do something like that,” Biden told Iowa Starting Line in an interview after a climate town hall in Cedar Rapids Friday afternoon.

Early Friday afternoon, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had personally, repeatedly pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden during a phone call. He urged Zelensky “about eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer, on a probe.”

There’s been significant concern that Trump, despite the lengthy investigations into his relationship with Russia during the last campaign, may once again invite foreign interference into American elections.

“It’s totally inappropriate for a president to try to get a foreign leader to say something that is untrue about any political opponent,” Biden said. “I’ve never heard of it before. I’ve never heard of it before. But I think that Congress is looking into it, and I think they should.”

The Trump Administration had been holding back military aid for Ukraine for part of this year. They relented last week, around the same time that news of a government whistleblower on a matter of foreign security began to spread.
Biden also dismissed the legitimacy of any sort of probe by Trump or his team into Biden’s son, Hunter.

“Every single outlet that’s looked at this said there’s nothing there there. And me, nor anyone in my family did anything inappropriate. And every major outlet has acknowledged that. I just find it very Trump-like.”

18 posted on 09/20/2019 3:10:36 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
“It’s concerning to me that a president would do something like that,” Biden told Iowa Starting Line

Yeah, I'll bet it is.

50 posted on 09/20/2019 3:41:48 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial Nominees and United States Marshal Nominee


I'll put the titles of each nomination below - click on link above to read bio information for each.

Patrick J. Bumatay of California, to serve as Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 

Lawrence VanDyke of Nevada, to serve as Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

John W. Holcomb of California, to serve as Judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Knut S. Johnson of California, to serve as Judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

Steve Kim of California, to serve as Judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Michelle M. Pettit of California, to serve as Judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

Thomas Michael O’Connor of Texas, to serve as United States Marshal for the Southern District of Texas.

54 posted on 09/20/2019 3:50:50 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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“Every single outlet that’s looked at this said there’s nothing there there.

what outlets, fake news outlets? roflmao...


89 posted on 09/20/2019 5:51:58 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no justice no peace)
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To: ransomnote

“It’s concerning to me that a president would do something like that,”
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And the Dems have been examining the President and his family with a microscope, and demanding impeachment for how long.

Biden and the Dems must make any investigation of Biden’s son benefiting financially from Biden’s position as Vice-President look purely political.

Unfortunately for them, even the Ukrainians view the Bidens’ actions as criminal.


90 posted on 09/20/2019 6:03:14 PM PDT by Yulee
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