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Susan Collins Joins Romney in Condemning Trump for Urging Biden Probe

posted onOctober 6, 2019
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Article snippet: “I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent. … It’s completely inappropriate,” Collins told the Bangor Daily News. The Maine Republican’s comments come after President Trump said China should investigate the Biden family for alleged corruption. “China should start an investigation into the Bidens, because what happened in China is just about as bad as Ukraine,” the president told reporters outside the White House ahead of a visit to Florida to deliver remarks on Medicare. As Breitbart News reported, Hunter Biden’s investment company secured a $1.5 billion investment deal with the Bank of China after traveling with his father on Air Force Two to the country in 2013. President Trump also re-upped his call for Ukraine to look into the Biden family’s dealings in the eastern European country. “I would think that if they were honest about it, they would start a major investigation” into the former second family, the president replied when asked if Ukraine should also probe into the Bidens. “Nobody has any doubt that they weren’t crooked; that was a crooked deal, 100 percent.” As Breitbart News reported earlier this year: Collins’ criticism came one day after Romney proclaimed that President Trump’s suggestion for foreign governments to look into Biden’s dealings “wrong and appalling.” The Utah Republican wrote on Twitter Friday: Sen. saying in a statement Thursday that “Americans don’t look to Chines... Link to the full article to read more

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