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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has once more stirred up calls for his impeachment after saying in an interview he would accept intelligence on a political opponent from a foreign power rather than inform the FBI.
“If somebody called from a country, Norway, [and said] ‘we have information on your opponent’ – oh, I think I’d want to hear it”, the president said during an Oval Office interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.
The remark immediately inspired Mr Trump’s 2020 Democratic challengers to unite in calls for his removal from the White House, with Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren all condemning his words and California senator Kamala Harris branding him a “national security threat”.
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Don Jr appears to be threatening Republican congressman Justin Amash, who called for his old man's impeachment, by suggesting he will campaign against him in revenge at next year's primaries on behalf of GOP rival Jim Lower.
Eric approves. "Want to play with your fidget spinner buddy?"
The Democrats' 2020 frontrunner Joe Biden continues to make heavy weather of his candidacy and has gone viral again after he was photographed waving his finger and lecturing a young women's rights activist on the campaign trail, inadvertently becoming an instant meme once more.
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New 2020 polling puts Elizabeth Warren above Bernie Sanders for the first time.
More hypocrisy from an administration courting the gay vote in 2020 while refusing to celebrate Pride.
Donald Trump is in full rant mode. The president is annoyed at the critical reaction to his comments to ABC News that he would listen if a foreign government approached him with damaging information about a political rival, and that he would not necessarily report the contact to the FBI.
Here is our full report on Mr Trump's comments on his meetings with UK officials, including Prince Charles - who he called the 'Prince of Whales' in a now-deleted tweet.
Mr Trump has gone on to complain that two Democrat Congressmen Mark Warner and Adam Schiff for their contacts related to the Russia investigation.
The president says that both were involved with calls "from talented entertainers purporting to be a Russian Operatives" but did not call the FBI.
This needs some unpacking.
Adam Schiff did take a call from two Russian radio comedians in April 2017, with one of them pretending to be Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of the Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. They claiming that there were "naked pictures" of Mr Trump from a trip to Moscow in 2013.
Mr Schiff's office said the congressman suspected the call was 'bogus' from the beginning and reported it to authorities afterwards - but audio of the call appears to show him either being serious or playing along very convincingly.
As for Mr Warner, it was reported that he had texted with a with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch who promised access to Christopher Steele, the author of the controversial dossier on Mr Trump and Russia
Fox News reported that Warner had "extensive contact" in 2017 with lobbyist Adam Waldman.
The contacts were dismissed by Republican senator Marco Rubio - who was on the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time said that Mr Warner had disclosed the details and it had "no impact" on the committee's work.
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