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What Giuliani and the State Department are now doing in advance of the 2020 election is worse than the made-up stuff Trump falsely claimed was done by the DNC and the "deep state" during the 2016 election.
Trump's personal attorney is telling foreign governments that if they don't launch investigations into Trump's political rivals, they will "piss off" the U.S. president, so they better "make the right decision."
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Trump is turning the defeat of his political rivals into a key U.S. foreign policy objective, and that this is being treated as a minor news story shows what crisis American democracy is in.
Trump, through his personal attorney, is requesting that a foreign president launch a criminal investigation into his political rivals for allegedly doing *the thing Trump is actually doing in making this request*.
