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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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Mike Pence has just spoken about the Ukraine scandal, attempting to divert the focus to Joe Biden and away from Donald Trump:
The Biden campaign says that Trump is having a meltdown over the impeachment and Ukraine scandal.
From the campaign manager:
"Now, with his administration in free-fall, Donald Trump is flailing and melting down on national television."
We've got another Giuliani tweet, this one with the Nickelback video that the president tweeted yesterday (and then was deleted)
The president seems to be having a bad day. His predecessor, on the other hand, seems to be enjoying himself right now:
Breaking: Kurt Volker, Donald Trump’s former special envoy to Ukraine, told Rudy Giuliani his claims of Joe Biden’s misconduct in the country were “not credible,” according to new reports. He appears to have told that statement during his testimonies on Capitol Hill today. Story to come.
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