Former Vice President
Joe Biden sees something beyond legal uncertainty in President Trump's continued calls to investigate him.Like he did in a call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July phone call, Trump on Thursday again called for Zelensky — and for China's
Xi Jinping — to start an investigation into the Biden family. But Biden's campaign says it doesn't see Trump's fixation as a threat. It's just another step in Trump's "ongoing abuse of power," Biden's 2020 Communications Director Kate Bedingfield said in a Thursday statement.Trump's Thursday call "was this election's equivalent of his infamous 'Russia, if you're listening' moment from 2016," Biden's campaign said, alluding to how Trump called for
Russia to "find" Hillary Clinton's missing emails. (They apparently did look, by the way). It's also a sign that, "with his administration in free-fall," Trump is "desperately clutching for conspiracy theories that have been debunked," the statement continues.
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who has become Trump's chief antagonist in his
Ukraine scandal, had a more direct response.