“China should start an investigation into the Bidens, because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine,” Trump told reporters. Nevertheless, Trump’s bizarre plea shows just how blinkered his view of this whole scandal is. That’s the first striking contrast with the way President Bill Clinton approached his impeachment in 1998 over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. In contrast, Trump is making clear that he’s thinking about nothing else. That was in large part because the Clinton impeachment featured something we often say we need but never actually have: a national conversation.

Source: Washington Post October 03, 2019 16:44 UTC