Orange Implosion, Con't

So we've reached the point in the Ukraine/Biden cycle in Trump's behavior where he simply does whatever Democrats are accusing him of doing in order to 1) normalize it for future repetition and the "so what if he does it?" defense from the GOP and 2) dare Democrats to actually do anything about it, which so far they have done absolutely nothing that seems to be discouraging him.

President Donald Trump urged another foreign government to probe Joe Biden and his son Thursday, saying the Chinese government should investigate the former vice president and son Hunter Biden over the latter's involvement with an investment fund that raised money in the country.

"China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine," Trump told reporters outside the White House.

While Trump said he hasn't requested Chinese President Xi Jinping investigate the Bidens, the public call mirrors the private behavior on which Democrats are partially basing their impeachment inquiry — using the office of the presidency to press a foreign leader to investigate a political rival.

It is "certainly something we can start thinking about, because I’m sure that President Xi does not like being on that kind of scrutiny, where billions of dollars is taken out of his country by a guy that just got kicked out of the Navy," Trump said Thursday of asking China to probe the Bidens. "He got kicked out of the Navy, all of the sudden he’s getting billions of dollars. You know what they call that? They call that a payoff."

The remarks come amid a tense trade war with China. The president, discussing progress on negotiations with Beijing on a possible trade agreement just moments prior to his remarks about the Bidens, told reporters that "if they don't do what we want, we have tremendous power.”

Chinese officials will be in Washington next week in another attempt to revive talks, Trump said.

So for almost two weeks now Trump defenders have been able to say "You can't prove he actually requested Biden be investigated, it's hearsay, it's not admissible in a court of law, Trump deserves full due process" even though all of that is 100% garbage.

And here Trump is on an idle Thursday not only saying Ukraine should investigate Joe Biden, but that China should too and hey, trade talks are coming up, that would definitely help.

No wonder then the call for impeachment is growing.  The best Democratic inquiry is to shut up and let Trump impeach himself on national TV.

Americans by a 45%-38% plurality now support a vote by the House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump, a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds, as allegations continue to swirl around an embattled White House.

By a similar margin, 44%-35%, those surveyed say the Senate, which would then be charged with holding a trial of the president, should convict Trump and remove him from office.

The survey of 1,006 adults, taken Tuesday and Wednesday, underscores the perilous situation the president finds himself in as House committees subpoena documents and prepare to hear testimony into accusations that he pressured the leader of Ukraine to investigate a political rival, then tried to hide the account of their phone conversation.

This was before today's massive public admission of a criminal act by Trump.

He's this close to the dam breaking and the impeachment and removal happening, and it's about to catch Mitch McConnell in a vise if he tries to ignore the impeachment vote and refuses to hold a Senate trial.

It won't work.

Trump is damning himself.

The Orange Implosion continues.