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Gothmog

(145,291 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 01:35 PM Oct 2019

Biden's Sister Weighs In On Trump's 'Unhinged' Effort To Get Foreign Dirt On Former VP




When asked how her brother is handling the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry — which was spurred by Trump’s infamous July call during which he tried to pressure Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky into manufacturing bogus allegations against the Democratic frontrunner — Biden Owens said that “he does better than I do with it.”

“It’s not pleasant. But Trump has really laid out all of his cards,” Biden Owens said. “This is really not about my family. He has chosen my family to be the vehicle that he can [use to] influence the election.”

Biden Owens said that she does not “want to be in this scrum,” but that one part that is “hopeful to me, or makes me feel good, is that Trump thinks that we’re the guy to beat.”

“It’s perverse, it’s backwards. But he’s coming after us,” Biden Owens said, directly referencing Trump’s call last week for the Chinese government to investigate the Bidens. “I don’t want to protest too much, but the press has done their job on this. We haven’t had to do it. There’s nothing there. Now it’s China. I mean, this guy’s unhinged.”
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Biden's Sister Weighs In On Trump's 'Unhinged' Effort To Get Foreign Dirt On Former VP (Original Post) Gothmog Oct 2019 OP
"Unhinged"...I Concur!! blue-wave Oct 2019 #1
A big takeaway: Biden and family just the "vehicle" Trump riding to influence 2020 elections. He emmaverybo Oct 2019 #2
Thank you for this from Valerie Biden Owens, Goth. Cha Oct 2019 #3
 

blue-wave

(4,356 posts)
1. "Unhinged"...I Concur!!
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 01:39 PM
Oct 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
2. A big takeaway: Biden and family just the "vehicle" Trump riding to influence 2020 elections. He
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 02:31 PM
Oct 2019

is certainly using other vehicles. But for now, because the Biden attack is central to his attack on our election, all candidates should boldly and loudly defend Biden by name as they condemn Trump’s impeachable offense.

Many have. I especially applaud Booker and Harris for standing up because they have challenges to
Biden they feel at a personal, not mere policy, level. Yet they rise above rivalry and strong differences with Biden to call out Trump for his specific attack.

It is not really, the whole sorry affair, about Biden and family, as his sister rightly points out. It is about an unconstitutional interference with one of our most crucial democratic processes, electing
our president.

That issue is what media needs to concentrate on, not whether or not Biden adequately responds to the Trump machine, not speculation about the potential potency of Trump’s attack. All that is
a dangerous spectator form of bothsiderism which meant or inadvertent amounts to participation
in Trump’s game.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Cha

(297,275 posts)
3. Thank you for this from Valerie Biden Owens, Goth.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 04:16 PM
Oct 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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