GOP Sen. Mitt Romney condemned President Trump’s “brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine” on Friday in a tweet, saying it’s “wrong and appalling” to ask foreign countries to investigate 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
Why it matters: Romney, who criticized the Trump-Ukraine allegations after reading the whistleblower complaint, is one of the first Republican senators to denounce Trump’s call on China and Ukraine to investigate his political opponent.
On Thursday, Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska denounced Trump’s push for China to investigate the former vice president, the Omaha World-Herald reports.
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Source: https://www.axios.com/mitt-romney-trump-twitter-investigate-biden-fdd2c4ef-80b9-48a7-9b8f-3128b31fb19e.html
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