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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Sen. Rob Portman said on Monday it was “not appropriate” for President Donald Trump to ask Ukraine and China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, joining a small group of Republicans to express concern over Trump's calls for foreign countries to become involved in U.S. elections.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/07/rob-portman-trump-china-joe-biden-038222[/quote]

From the same linked article:

[i]The Ohio Republican told the Columbus Dispatch that while the president’s actions do not amount to “an impeachable offense” in his view, he believes Trump made a mistake in mixing his own domestic politics with foreign policy. [/i]

Let's count Portman as voting for his acquittal in the Senate if he is imeached!  :D [/quote]

This is likely true but at least he's had to come clean about Biden:

[quote]He disputed Trump’s characterization of an ousted Ukrainian prosecutor as an aggressive battler of corruption, whom the president asserts was fired because he was digging into Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings. Portman was part of a bipartisan group of senators who wrote a letter to the Ukraine president in 2016 seeking reforms in the prosecutor’s office; Monday, Portman said the senators believed the prosecutor wasn’t doing nearly enough to root out corruption — not that he was doing too much.

And the Biden issue never came up, Portman said: “That didn’t even enter into our calculus as far as I know, one way or the other. It certainly didn’t into mine. Because that was something that nobody was even talking about.”

The letter, also signed by Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, came a couple of months after the vice president threatened to cut off a loan guarantee to Ukraine — a move Biden says was motivated by the concern of U.S. officials and others about Ukrainian corruption.[/quote]

Republican Democratic Chair had not comment...

[quote]But Ohio Democratic Chair David Pepper was not reluctant to talk: “Rob Portman is finally speaking up after allowing Donald Trump’s smear against Joe Biden and his family to go on for weeks or longer. Last week reporters exposed a letter that Portman and his fellow senators signed back in 2016. Today Portman admits that the letter actually backed up Biden’s account ... The idea that he’s already made up his mind that Donald Trump’s conduct — shaking down foreign leaders to do his political bidding — does not rise to the level of impeachment is ludicrous.”

Portman said he first heard about Trump wanted a probe of the Bidens when it broke in the news a few weeks ago.[/quote]

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20191007/ohio-gop-sen-rob-portman-trump-wrong-to-seek-help-from-ukraine-china

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