Of course, it is a crime for a candidate in a federal election to solicit campaign help from a foreign government. No quid quo pro is necessary, though in the case of the Ukrainian phone call, it is undeniable that Trump expressly dangled military aid in exchange for help with the Bidens.
President Trump admits he brought up the Bidens during the Urkainain phone call, a fact confirmed by the summary of the call the White House provided. Yet, a poll shows only 40% of Republicans believe Trump mentioned the Bidens during the phone call. That is how bad the President's gas lighting of America, aided by so-called conservative media (they are "Trumpian" not "conservative") outlets, have become. Even when Trump openly admits doing something bad, his Kool-Aid drinking cult followers refuse to believe it.
Today, Trump once again used his office to spread lies about Bidens. Make no mistake about it....Hunter Biden used his father's position as Vice President and good name to cash in privately. (Sort of like the Trump family does every day of the week.) Joe Biden was reportedly unhappy with his son taking the position, but he had no power to stop it. Nonetheless, the facts are that Hunter Biden himself was never under investigation by the Ukraine prosecutor. The gas company was under investigation before Hunter Biden took a position on the gas company board of directors. The investigation was no longer active when Vice President Biden, at the behest of President Obama and scores of reform advocates as well as the entire western alliance urged the prosecutor to be fired for not pursuing corruption cases. Vice President Biden's actions not only didn't benefit his son's gas company, they in fact opened the possibility a new prosecutor would restart the dormant investigation.
Trump's approach to the Bidens is straight out of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels's playbook. Goebbels said that "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." While rational, thoughtful people probably will not believe Trump's big lie about the Bidens, enough people may believe it to sink Biden's bid for the Democratic nomination. That would leak Trump facing a much weaker rival, someone like Elizabeth Warren.
The irony is that what is easily the most corrupt President in a lifetime (which includes the presidency of Richard Nixon) is using the issue of corruption to try to sink a much more ethical and honest rival.
Impeachment is no longer an option. Impeachment is an imperative.
2 comments:
If we abolished polls then Paul would be speechless. $50,000 a month
to a coke head? Why not devise a poll question to see what ye common
man would think of that? Not that it matters, because the nest having
been kicked, the hornets will out and the Biden Corruption Machine
will begin taking water.......and, the D's will assist because they (in
their current delusions) prefer even more left wing stooges.
So, Anon 2:12, are you fine with the President of the United States using his office to enrich himself by encouraging people, including people in government to stay at his hotels, which he profits off of? Trump didn't put his assets in to a blind trust so he can continue profiting off of them, indeed so he could use his position as President to leverage more profits. Trumpers have no problem with something like that because they do not know the meaning of the word "hypocrisy."
There is no evidence that Joe Biden is "corrupt." But there is plenty of evidence that Donald Trump is. And you're fine with that.
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