Fox News poll suggests president to lose in 2020, amid impeachment struggle and revelations of secret ‘promise’ to a foreign leader
A new Fox News poll sees Donald Trump lagging behind his 2020 challengers as news breaks that a promise the president made during a phone call to a mystery foreign leader so troubled one US intelligence official that they felt compelled to file a whistleblower complaint.
The precise nature of the pledge is currently unknown, according to The Washington Post, but, despite the matter being deemed of “urgent concern”, the president’s acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire has so far refused to pass it on to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, even after a subpoena was issued.
Trump was in California on Wednesday to visit his US-Mexico border wall, which he hailed with characteristic bluster as a “world-class security system”, before moving to downplay talk of his impeachment: “Such a waste of time, especially with so much good that could be done.”