News Analysis: Trump faces storm of his own making

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Trump is fighting back with the same playbook he’s used whenever he is accused of legal or ethical lapses, writes ChrisMegerian.

President Trump asked Ukraine’s president to investigate Joe Biden, a newly released White House memo shows. Trump’s request is the focus of a formal impeachment inquiry in Congress.He asked first for an inquiry into a cybersecurity firm that worked with Democrats during the Russia investigation, and then, repeatedly, for help digging up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential Democratic opponent next year.

But Trump has found himself increasingly cornered, and his well-honed skills at evasion and obfuscation may not be a match for the mushrooming scandal involving Ukraine. And he repeated unfounded allegations about Biden, saying his conduct as vice president “sounds horrible to me.”It wasn’t simple griping, the kind that’s a constant in Trump’s tweets. Days before the call, Trump had ordered aides to withhold nearly $400 million in military and other U.S. aid to Kiev, which relies on American backing to defend against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

He told Zelensky multiple times to work with Atty. Gen. William Barr and Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal attorney, to examine whether Biden had done anything wrong while his son served on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company.

 

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ChrisMegerian Hahahahaha! Slow day at the LA Times?

ChrisMegerian Diversión Donald in motion

ChrisMegerian it the way ALL innocent folks behave...

ChrisMegerian realDonaldTrump is a broken record...hoax, fake news, witch-hunt, Biden, Hilary’s emails, blah blah blah. We’ve heard it over and over. His words are falling on deaf ears now. FYI: Biden isn’t president you are trump. impeachtrump

ChrisMegerian Who cares - because NOTHING has stuck ...and you know why? Because they were all based on UNTRUTH

ChrisMegerian Best President in decades!

ChrisMegerian I suppose that Pence would pardon him, so really he doesn't have much to worry about.

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