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Portman is the latest GOP senator to distance themselves from Trump's public overtures to have Ukraine and China investigate Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.





Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Thursday, Trump suggested that China and Ukraine should investigate the Bidens.



The president added that he had not explicitly asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to open such a probe but that it’s “certainly something we can start thinking about.”

“The president should not have raised the Biden issue on that call, period. It’s not appropriate for a president to engage a foreign government in an investigation of a political opponent,” Portman told The Columbus Dispatch House Democrats are at the start of an impeachment inquiry centered on Trump asking the Ukrainian government to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giulani, to look into the Bidens, and allegations that he tried to withhold aid to Ukraine in an effort to get Kiev to launch such a probe.