A loan guarantee is still a gift. It is a thing of value which we were not obligated to give them in any way. It cannot be considered a threat or use of force to withhold something that which we have ZERO obligation to provide.Actually what Biden threatened to withhold was a loan guarantee, and without it the Ukraine economy could have collapsed, and the aid the Trump administration held for 55 days was an actual gift, there were no strings that anything needed to be repaid.
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Ok, let's go with that, military aid is a gift also, you can't have it both ways. If Biden can withhold a gift, so can Trump.
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Well, military aid was a congressional appropriation so Trump has limited options since he doesn’t have authority to undo a law passed by Congress.
I don’t know what the rules were for loan guarantees.
But in the end, the motive for the holds is what truly matters. If the president or Vice President were motivated by personal benefit, then it’s corrupt. I think there’s evidence that Trump was acting for himself and no evidence Biden was acting for himself.
All financial obligations have to be appropriated by congress, but they quite often build in conditions. But your opinion is irrelevant because you can't provide one Trump quote where he asked for anything for himself. Words and context have meaning, your opinion, not so much.
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Yes, they do build in conditions. Those conditions were met according to the DOD.
Trump asked for an investigation into Joe Biden. That was clearly for his benefit. Not ours.
Well hell, perhaps you commies should also include his signing the tax cuts to your impeachment articles as well, after all Trump benefited from them too. Just because a president gets a tangential benefit when he does something in the name of our country, doesn't make them illegal.
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