WH trade advisor Navarro: It's "confidential" whether Trump is pressing China to investigate Biden

[Mrs. Overall]

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Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto

I just asked WH trade advisor Peter Navarro half a dozen times if Trump would press China to investigate Biden as part of trade talks and he refused to answer citing “confidentiality”.

[spanone]

1. Criminals, one and all.

Of course he will demand they manufacture dirt on Joe Biden. No doubt.

[tblue37]

26. He already has--apparently more than once. nt

[el_bryanto]

2. Sketchy as hell. While I do agree that some trade negotiations need to be behind

closed doors, that's a straightforward question that should be easy to answer (unless the answer will make Trump look bad).

Bryant

[SergeStorms]

17. They can't be held behind closed doors!

Where's the transparency? I suggest democrats storm the trade meetings until they're all held in public for all to see! Let's take a page out of the GOP playbook, huh?

[el_bryanto]

19. The problem is that negotiations will involve compromise

and if people have to compromise in front of cameras they look week. If they compromise between closed doors they can do it with a bit of confidence they won't get dinged by their followers.

That said in this case it's a clear yes and no question - and there should be no difficulty answering that question.

Bryant

[SergeStorms]

23. I should have added...

the emoji. It wasn't meant to be serious.

[RandySF]

3. The fuck it is.

Agent Orange did it in public.

[aggiesal]

13. I agree. And the only answer, should have been NO! ...

Anything other than NO means YES.
No reason to hide this unless it's YES.

[C_U_L8R]

4. China holds quite a trump card

They just need to say 'yes, Trump asked us to investigate his political rival' and it's all over for Trump. Meanwhile they can extort Trump all day long for tremendous advantage and profit.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Yup. Navarro as good as admits that tRump is a Chinese asset (not agent). . . . nt

[Autumn]

5. Bless his heart. He's confused the words "confidential" with "fucking illegal impeachable offense".

[LakeArenal]

6. Indeed.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. No confusion. Buying time for somebody, maybe himself; because that is an admission de facto. . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Ordinary people would not have to think. If there is pressure, ordinary people would resign. . . .nt

[calimary]

8. I'd take that as a yes.

[SCVDem]

11. They should investigate

Elaine Cho! (McConnell)

[tblue37]

27. Chao. nt

[Wounded Bear]

12. Well, of course you can't expect them to commit their crimes in public view...

Gotta protect their privacy and privilege.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

25. send in Rudy and Mulvaney ...

"We do it all the time. Get over it!"
"I have it here on my phone!"

It's only right that we put the best stooges, er, investigators on the case.

[RockRaven]

14. Nobody as narcissistic as Trump tries to keep it a secret when he does something good.

It is safe to assume this invocation of confidentiality is an admission of wrong-doing.

[dlk]

15. Of course, committing crimes is "confidential"

How else can a criminal get away with it?

[NewJeffCT]

16. That's as good as a "YES"

all caps were intentional

[kag]

18. Um...that's not a no. n/t

[Hekate]

20. That would be a "yes," then. nt

[DallasNE]

21. Bribery Is A Listed Impeachable Offense

And has no confidential protections.

[Turbineguy]

22. Unusual

normally he's pretty open about his crimes.

[Maru Kitteh]

24. So, we can go ahead and mark that as a "yes." Who exactly

isn't Trump asking to investigate Joe Biden?

Joe Biden haunt what vanishing bits of fevered sleep he gets.

[dawg day]

28. It is almost incomprehensible that they would STILL be doing this-

when they know it's an article of the impeachment. And all these aides are going along with it.