Pres. Trump tried out a new message that immediately drew criticism: that his call for foreign governments to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and Biden's son was related to corruption, not politics.
As President Donald Trump continued on Friday to beat back a rapidly progressing impeachment inquiry, he tried out a new message that immediately drew criticism: that his call for foreign governments to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and Biden's son was related to corruption, not politics.
After previewing it on Twitter Thursday night night and Friday morning, the president repeated that message multiple times in a 23-minute back-and-forth with reporters, a shift from his days of disparaging the whistleblower whose complaint about his dealings with Ukraine sparked the impeachment process."We’re investigating corruption," Trump said."We're not investigating campaigns. I don't care about his campaign.
Like during most of his presidency, Trump has served as his chief spokesman -- particularly as his press secretary does not hold regular briefings or often grant interviews -- and he has alternately accused the whistleblower of filing an inaccurate complaint ; claimed he was the victim of a coup d'etat , and called on House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., to resign . On Friday, he argued it was his obligation to look into corruption -- at one point invoking the U.S.
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