Fox Host Praises ‘Classic’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate’ Call for China to Dig Up Dirt on Biden
Shortly after President Donald Trump publicly called for China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden amid an impeachment inquiry into his urging the Ukraine president to do the same thing, Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker praised the president for doubling down, claiming Trump feels this is a legitimate thing to ask of foreign powers.
Appearing on Fox News Americas Newsroom on Thursday morning, Bakerwho also hosts the Fox Business Network weekly series WSJ at Largewas asked to react to the president adding China to the list of countries he wants to probe a potential 2020 rival.
Its classic Donald Trump, the former WSJ editor-in-chief declared. He doubles down. When everybodywhen the Democrats and his opponents and the media are clutching their pearls about some new outrage and they think Wow, this is the end now, he just doubles down!
Noting that Trump doesnt feel ashamed or sorry for being outed that he was pressuring the Ukrainian president to investigate the Biden family, Baker said that this shows Trump feels hes on pretty solid ground on this topic.
Far from this being an abuse of power, as the Democrats would say, to get a foreign government to investigate a domestic political opponent, Baker added. He feels there is some suspicious, questionable stuff that Hunter Biden has done in his various roles around the world and he feels it is legitimate to ask foreign countries to investigate.
Moments later, co-anchor Sandra Smith circled back to Trumps open request that China look into Biden, wondering how the Chinese president would feel about being under this kind of scrutiny amid an ongoing trade war with the United States.
Baker, meanwhile, suggested that Trump could use this to offer China a carrot in their trade negotiations.
It adds an interesting a little bit of spice to the trade dispute, he said. Maybe again for the president, its a possible area of agreement between the U.S. and China.
Baker concluded: He is saying look, if there has been something nefarious going on, China lost out from it. Were anxious to help China investigate as China should want to. So it may, against the background of pretty tough trade negotiations and a deteriorating economic relationship between the U.S. and China without any question, maybe this offers a little sunshine.
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