Immediate backlash erupted on Thursday after President Donald Trump called for the governments of China and Ukraine to investigate current 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden, for corruption, a comment that may land the president in even more trouble as an impeachment inquiry in the House continues to move forward.

“China should start an investigation into the Bidens,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. 

“President Trump is under the misimpression that if he keeps committing impeachable offenses, he can somehow normalize them and escape accountability,” advocacy group Public Citizen said in response to the president’s comments.

Trump made the comments on the South Lawn of the White House in response to questions about the deepening scandal over his alleged pressuring of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Hunter Biden’s employment with the oil company Burisma Holdings. The scandal kickstarted the House impeachment inquiry.

Biden is the current frontrunner in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, the winner of which will presumably face Trump in a general election. The president, casting about for more dirt on his potential opponent, recently brought up a state visit to China in 2013 that Hunter accompanied his father on where the younger Biden is accused of meeting with investors for a hedge fund he developed, though no evidence of wrongdoing has yet been revealed, as evidence of a pattern of corruption in the Biden family. 

“What happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine,” Trump said Thursday.

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Commentator Elise Jordan, in a tweet, said that Americans “deserve better” than Trump and Biden.