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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Trump Envoys Pushed Ukraine to Commit to Investigating Biden
From the article:
Two of President Trump’s top envoys to Ukraine worked on a statement for the country’s new president in August that would have committed Ukraine to pursuing investigations sought by Mr. Trump into his political rivals, according to three people briefed on the effort and documents released Thursday night.
Their work on the statement is new evidence of how Mr. Trump’s fixation with conspiracy theories linked to Ukraine began driving senior diplomats to bend American foreign policy to the president’s political agenda in the weeks after a July 25 call between the two leaders.
Their work on the statement is new evidence of how Mr. Trump’s fixation with conspiracy theories linked to Ukraine began driving senior diplomats to bend American foreign policy to the president’s political agenda in the weeks after a July 25 call between the two leaders.
To read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/politics/trump-ukraine.html?te=1&nl=impeachment-briefing&emc=edit_ib_20191004?campaign_id=140&instance_id=12827&segment_id=17567&user_id=fa8c1273ad5c8d2cec40b8db91360f10®i_id=98233847
We saw this tactic used in 2016 against HRC. A constant repetition of the Biden/Ukraine/corruption meme is designed to weaken support for Joe Biden. And this meme forces the Biden campaign to either defend against the allegation, keeping it in the news, or ignore it and hope it dies.
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
