CNN: Trump Mentioned Biden, Warren During Call With Chinese President In June

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping leave a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017.Donald Trump urged Chinese leader Xi Jinping to work "hard" and ac... President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping leave a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017.Donald Trump urged Chinese leader Xi Jinping to work "hard" and act fast to help resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis, during their meeting in Beijing on November 9, warning that "time is quickly running out". / AFP PHOTO / Nicolas ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump reportedly brought up Democratic rivals Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping in June.

CNN reported on Thursday night that Trump had mentioned Biden and Warren’s “political prospects” (in CNN’s words) when he called Jinping on June 18.

Trump, currently scrambling to fix the damage from the disastrous trade war he began against China, also reportedly told Jinping that he wouldn’t speak out against China’s treatment of the protesters in Hong Kong.

Afterwards, White House officials reportedly locked away records of the call in the same electronic security system used to conceal Trump’s call with the president of Ukraine.

Several hours before CNN published the new details, Trump had openly asked Ukraine and China to investigate Biden during a press conference.

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  1. Avatar for kovie kovie says:

    In and of itself this isn’t a crime or impeachable, even if it’s pretty pathetic (just imagine Xi whining about Hong Kong protesters or his wayward minister of housing). But no doubt there’s way more here than they’re letting on. And we’re just starting to find out about all that’s been hidden now that Dems and the media are piling on and digging deep. I’m sure that the worst is yet to come out, and that it’s vastly worse than what we’ve heard so far.

    Look, I know that it’s fashionable among some to claim that Repubs will never abandon him, neither the base now elected leaders, but I’ve never believed that. His support has come from two kinds of supporters. The first, of course, are the diehards, the ones who truly love them some Trump. They’ll stick by him no matter what. They’re imbeciles, lunatics, ignoramuses and bigots, losers who run after the bull with the biggest dick and bray.

    But the other group are opportunists and hold their noses Repubs who figured that at least he’s not Hillary and so long as the economy’s doing fine and things seem stable beyond his personal issues, they’re will to abide a man they realize is an asshole and imbecile. But he’s THEIR asshole and imbecile. Now that the whole thing’s coming apart, they’ll abandon him, GUARANTEED, just as they did Bush the Lesser, Reagan and Nixon. And they’re a third to half of the party. Once he loses them, he’s more fucked than a five dollar Vegas whore.

    100%.

    He’s going down, and half the party’s going to run as far away from him as it can.

  2. Warren ?? For what? Has she been claiming Chinese ancestry?

  3. Trump, currently scrambling to fix the damage from the disastrous trade war he began against China, also reportedly told Jinping that he wouldn’t speak out against China’s treatment of the protesters in Hong Kong.

    Bartering US silence on human rights violations for Saudi purchases of hotel rooms and Chinese dirt on his political opponents.

    As a businessman, Trump is famous for squandering capital. As president, he will be famous for squandering the country’s moral capital.

  4. Avatar for kovie kovie says:

    CougarGate. It’s quite literally worse than the Bowling Green Massacre. Look it up, in WankerPedia.

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