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Thursday, October 03, 2019

Now Trump wants China to dig for dirt on the Biden family. He announced how he'd like to see it, but appears to have made no phone call to advance the idea

Strib carrying an AP feed, beginning:

Trump calls for China to investigate Bidens
By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press - October 3, 2019 — 10:05am

WASHINGTON — Ensnarled in an impeachment investigation over his request for Ukraine to investigate a chief political rival, President Donald Trump Thursday called on another nation to probe former Vice President Joe Biden: China.

"China should start an investigation into the Bidens," Trump said in remarks to reporters outside the White House. Trump said he hadn't directly asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to investigate Biden and his son Hunter but said it's "certainly something we could start thinking about."

Trump and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have also tried to raise suspicions about Hunter Biden's business dealings in China, leaning on the writings of conservative author Peter Schweizer. But there is no evidence that the former vice president benefited financially from his son's business relationships.

More inviting foreign governmental interference in U.S. election matters. (And then there is Netanyahu. He who we dare not name.}