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Trump: It would be 'appropriate' for me to talk to DOJ about investigating Biden | TheHill

posted onMay 12, 2019
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Article snippet: MORE. Trump told Politico in an interview Friday that he hasn’t talked with Barr about investigating Biden and his family's business dealings but said "certainly it would be an appropriate thing" to bring up with the attorney general.  "Certainly it is a very big issue and we’ll see what happens. I have not spoken to him about it. Would I speak to him about it? I haven’t thought of that. I mean, you’re asking me a question I just haven’t thought of," he told the outlet. The president noted that it could be "a very big situation" for Biden, who has led the Democratic presidential primary field in polling since he launched his campaign last month. "Because he’s a Democrat it’s about 1/100 the size of the fact that if he were a Republican, it would be a lot bigger," Trump alleged. Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani last week The New York Times reported that while Biden was vice president in 2016, he allegedly threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees unless the country removed a top prosecutor. The prosecutor, who had been accused of ignoring corruption in his own office, was later voted out.  Biden’s son Hunter was a board member of an energy company that the prosecutor had been looking into, according to the newspaper.  Giuliani initially planned to travel to Ukraine to encourage Ukraine's president-elect to launch investigations into Biden and the origins of special counsel MORE's Russia investigation.  However, Giuliani changed course late F... Link to the full article to read more

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