'Does anybody think it is appropriate?' Trump's former national security adviser says soliciting foreign interference is 'absolutely not' ok

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• Former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster made it unequivocally clear that a sitting US president soliciting foreign help in America's political process was "absolutely not" appropriate.
• McMaster, a retired three-star US Army general who was Donald Trump's national security adviser for over a year, encouraged Congress to determine whether or not the president committed a violation when he publicly called on Ukraine and China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
• "Of course it's not appropriate," McMaster said, chucking. "Does anybody think it is appropriate?"
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Former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster made it unequivocally clear that a sitting US president soliciting foreign help in America's political process was "absolutely not" appropriate.

"Of course, no," McMaster said to a panel discussion at a Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington D.C. on Thursday morning. "It's absolutely not."

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