Who needs whistleblowers anyway?
President Trump literally said the quiet part out loud and in public on Thursday when, after being asked what he thinks Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky should do after their phone call, said "I would recommend that they start an investigation into the Bidens." And then he added another doozy, suggesting for some reason that China's Xi Jinping should consider investigating the Bidens too.
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