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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has told reporters at the White House he believes China should investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter for corruption, speaking in blithe defiance of the impeachment inquiry already underway after he asked Ukraine for the same thing on his now-notorious 25 July call with Volodymyr Zelensky.
The president is now jetting out to Florida after a morning on which he attacked teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, clearly still angry after exploding at the White House press corps on Wednesday evening, where he threatened “a lot of litigation against a lot of people”, call Biden Sr “stone-cold crooked” and accused House speaker Nancy Pelosi of handing out subpoenas “like cookies”.
Continuing to spend much of his time raging on Twitter against the “do nothing Democrats”, apparently without stopping to consider the irony, Mr Trump also posted a bizarre video hitting out at the Bidens featuring the Canadian soft rock band Nickelback, which was swiftly taken down by the social media giant for copyright infringement.
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The incensed reaction to Trump's latest comments are beginning to roll in.
Nickelback have yet to tweet anything about the Trump copyright infringement but it looks like they seldom use their account and are currently in Brazil on tour anyway.
When they do tweet, it's often downright weird...
Trump is en route to Florida...
...but has still found time to post another laughably bogus Breitpart poll, this time on Shifty Schiff.
We get so caught up on Rudy's TV appearances that we forget he also tweets sometimes:
A new poll out today shows that a growing number of Americans believe Trump should be impeached for his pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.
And, with that as a backdrop, let us not forget that the president doubled down on the whole thing this morning:
Hillary Clinton does not want you to forget that she is still here:
Unless you're really plugged into the intricacies of the Trump impeachment process, you may have missed the news that Max Rose — a first-term Democrat representing New York's 11th congressional district — came out in favour of impeachment today.
Mr Rose is one of the last holdouts among Democrats, and his support shows just how strong the support for the measure is becoming.
Why, you might ask, is a Democratic congressman from New York — New York City, no less! — supporting Mr Trump's impeachment a big deal? Well... Mr Rose won his seat last year by beating Republican incumbent Dan Donovan, in one of the biggest upsets of the cycle.
He represents New York City's most conservative borough (by a long shot), and one that Trump won by 10 per cent in 2016. And he knows that his path to re-election means walking a moderate line in Congress. The fact that he has come out in favour of impeachment is nothing but bad news for the president.
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