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Eugene

(62,623 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2020, 10:21 AM Mar 2020

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Greg Sargent: Trump will corrupt everything in sight to beat Biden. Here's what's next.

Source: Washington Post

Trump will corrupt everything in sight to beat Biden. Here’s what’s next.

By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
March 11, 2020 at 10:13 a.m. EDT

Now that former vice president Joe Biden has cemented his hold on the Democratic nomination, an urgent question has arisen: How far will President Trump go in corrupting the government to smear Biden between now and November?

One Democratic senator — Chris Murphy of Connecticut — has hit on a novel way to try to get ahead of what’s about to happen.

Murphy has formally asked the inspectors general at numerous government agencies to review whether those agencies are selectively cooperating with efforts by Trump’s allies in Congress to launch “investigations” to damage Biden — while refusing cooperation with Democratic oversight efforts directed at Trump.

It’s a reasonable line of inquiry. Senate Republicans are set to take a big step forward with their probe of Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son. They have sought extensive documents from many agencies in pursuit of this. Those agencies appear to be cooperating.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/11/trump-will-corrupt-everything-sight-beat-biden-heres-whats-next/

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Greg Sargent: Trump will corrupt everything in sight to beat Biden. Here's what's next. (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2020 OP

Anything short of a smoking gun held by Joe Biden himself ThisIsNotPossible Mar 2020 #1

And there should be 2naSalit Mar 2020 #2

ThisIsNotPossible

(39 posts)

1. Anything short of a smoking gun held by Joe Biden himself

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 10:28 AM

Mar 2020

and this will, at most, be a damp squib, a non-factor. Could end up backfiring much more dramatically against the GOP.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

2naSalit

(92,067 posts)

2. And there should be

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 10:33 AM

Mar 2020

open investigations of the rump family's criminal enterprises, every one of them.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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