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Why Trump’s Ukraine scandal could backfire on Biden
The Politico ^ | September 21, 2019 | Marc Caputo, Natasha Korecki and Ben Schreckinger.

Posted on 09/21/2019 1:54:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

An extended discussion about his son’s business dealings isn’t helpful to Biden’s electability argument.

Joe Biden had a chance to excoriate Donald Trump on Friday after a blockbuster report detailed how the president pushed Ukrainian investigators to investigate Biden’s son.

Instead, Biden was circumspect and measured in a comment to reporters.

Only hours later, after Biden and his advisors weighed more facts and after Democrats renewed calls for impeaching Trump, did the former vice president’s campaign issue a broader and stronger statement.

The time it took Biden to unleash his tougher comments – which stopped just short of urging impeachment — offered an insight into the political sensitivities surrounding the situation.

Despite the outrage that greeted reports of the president’s actions, Biden’s immediate response was no simple matter. His son Hunter Biden’s lucrative contracts with Ukraine — at the same time the vice president was in charge of U.S. policy toward the country raised — raised the prospect of fueling a narrative with downside political risk for Biden.

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: biden; scandal; trump; ukraine
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Somebody at Politico is awake.
1 posted on 09/21/2019 1:54:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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2 posted on 09/21/2019 1:56:24 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Uh I think Trump is playing them like a fiddle.

The real question is why hasn’t Barr done anything about Biden? Why does it take Trump exposing it to get people to think?


3 posted on 09/21/2019 1:57:10 PM PDT by for-q-clinton
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“Why Trump’s Ukraine scandal could backfire on Biden”

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Wrong tense.


4 posted on 09/21/2019 1:57:50 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s a duh.


5 posted on 09/21/2019 2:04:30 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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it is not Trump’s Ukraine scandal a-holes.


6 posted on 09/21/2019 2:09:38 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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it is not Trump’s Ukraine scandal a-holes.

I was wondering how it got to be Trump's scandal.

7 posted on 09/21/2019 2:16:12 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Outrage”? WTF are they talking about? LOL!! More like “Approval” and “Admiration”. Millions and millions of Americans have worked hard, kept their nose clean, and watched in amazement and horror as these kleptocrats hijack government at seemingly every level. It’s like a bad movie, or Bizarro World.

This is actually why the American people elected the Donald, as a point of order.

To (hopefully) clean up some of this !&@%. Joe Biden has more time on the crapper in the Senate washroom than the President has in government, something like fifty (50) YEARS in D.C.

It’s like the President is some kind of Rorsach Test with these people. Ukraine is a Democrat scandal. Notice they ALWAYS want to pin their perfidy on the neW guy. EVERYTHING they’ve been doing, talk about PROJECTION, everything they accuse normal people of doing, you can bet that’s what THEY’VE been doing.

These SOBs both Democrat and Republican too, have had free run in the candy store for decades now. Little wonder they tried everything they could to keep him out of the oval office.

Go Donny, Go!!!


8 posted on 09/21/2019 2:26:48 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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Politico is the Dem Establishment mouthpiece. They must want Biden gone. Too much baggage.


9 posted on 09/21/2019 2:35:50 PM PDT by kabar
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Since we all already knew that Jr. had made bucks (that is old real news) in exchange for his daddy’s deal with the oil guys, my guess is that the B. campaign had to get this scandal rinsed out and settled before it might crash B at the wrong time. Someone is using the ol’ dossier example - but used a whistle-blower instead of a leaker. Their almost perfect crime again,, while the media has its’ way with the POTUS and doesn’t need to report real news = It’s the economy, stupid!”.


10 posted on 09/21/2019 2:37:24 PM PDT by seenenuf (I miss my country.)
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They must want Biden gone.

My take as well. But Joe, he ain't a-goin'. They're going to have to wheel him out on a gurney waving his arms and screeching about his service in the Spanish-American War.

11 posted on 09/21/2019 2:40:24 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They call it “fueling a narrative” about Biden’s son collecting big dirty money from Ukraine.

But the President Trump allegation, that’s a blockbuster.

Utter morons! #FAIL


12 posted on 09/21/2019 2:40:32 PM PDT by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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The so called “narrative” is for there current set of brainwashed sheep it gives them a reason to tie it to Trump, so they can cry about it, otherwise they would need to wake up and they dont want too.


13 posted on 09/21/2019 2:43:57 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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his service in the Spanish-American War.

That made me laugh so hard! lol

14 posted on 09/21/2019 2:47:05 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because Biden’s is the one who actually committed a crime?

Just a wild guess.


15 posted on 09/21/2019 3:08:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.")
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To: for-q-clinton

If this is being reported by Polutico, and DiFi is having kittens....someone is scared.
And its NOT Trump.


16 posted on 09/21/2019 4:10:51 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Freedom4US

Well said, Freedom4US. Way to rally the troops.


17 posted on 09/21/2019 4:41:27 PM PDT by poconopundit (Will Kamel Harass pay reparations? Her ancestors were black Slave Owners in Jamaica.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

On the May 10, 2019, Shannon Bream show, Rudy Gulianni talks about Joe Biden getting the investigation of his son quashed.

https://youtu.be/MMYn63LqSgg?t=261

Here’s Biden at the CFR bragging about it:

https://youtu.be/Q0_AqpdwqK4?t=3144


18 posted on 09/21/2019 5:04:45 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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Now I’m strongly suspecting that Shrillary has bequeathed some of her diabolical methods, and likely some of her skullduggerous plausibly-deniable personnel to Fauxcahontas. This reeks of a two-for-one smackdown of Trump, and much more importantly at this stage, Biden, and has more Snidely Whiplash than Liawatha has the brains for. She also isn’t bright enough to cover things up like The Beast, so she’d better be careful how far down this road she goes.
I hope she goes whole hog and ends up in jail.


19 posted on 09/21/2019 6:00:51 PM PDT by _longranger81 (Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the defenseless; care for the unloved.)
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“His son Hunter Biden’s lucrative contracts with Ukraine — at the same time the vice president was in charge of U.S. policy toward the country raised — raised the prospect of fueling a narrative with downside political risk for Biden.”

Gosh.


20 posted on 09/22/2019 12:54:35 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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