What do you accuse Biden son of?
But see, here's the logical fail of the Trumpstettes - although logical fails don't trouble them - but assume for a moment that Biden did abuse his office as VP by pressuring Ukraine to not investigate Hunter ….. that would be impeachable. But that's exactly what Trump now admits he did too.
There was an absolute quid pro quo with Biden. He said point-blank the US will withhold funding if the Ukranian prosecutor who was investing the company Hunter was working for (on the board) wasn't fired.
Straight out of Biden's mouth:
I said, nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said—I said, call him. I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a *****. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.
That comment is a textbook definition of a quid pro quo. Please compare and contrast that statement with what Trump said on the phone call. There was no mention of withholding funding if his requests were not met. It simply isn't there.
The Ukrainian prosecutor was allegedly corrupt and removing him was a US policy goal,not a favor to Biden. Trump was very specific as to his goals in the favors he asked for. \
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Hunter Biden was actually investigated AFTER Shokin was replaced. I don't know whether the Trump fans are just ignorant of that, or choose to remain so. I'm not really sure what he was investigated for though, but that's not really the story. Like Trump, Biden needs an asskicking for what his kids do, but in Trump's case, they spawn act at his approved bequest to enrich him personally.
Even Slick and HW can't match that.
But the guy said no, and Trump released the funds.
So no quid pro quo ever happened. And honestly, I read the entire transcript. Out of the entire conversation, Trump referred to Biden bragging once. It was never mentioned before, or after that mention.
If the transcript had been mostly about Biden, then I would have agreed with you that this was clearly an attempt to influence the election by bribing another government into investigating a political opponent.
But you have taken a tiny single sentence a rather long phone conversations about corruption broadly, and implied that it was the primary and defacto purpose of everything.
I don't see it. This was just Trump rambling about corruption, and hey I watched Biden say he stopped a prosecutor by bribing with money (foreign aid), and it looks terrible. You should likely look into that.
Now do I think Trump should have kept his mouth shut? Of course. But I don't see a quid pro quo going on. Unlike Biden saying fire this guy or no money... Biden got what he wanted, and only released the money when he got what he wanted.
Trump released the money, and no investigation of Hunter Biden ever happened.
So trying to compare Trumps actions, with those around him... Biden looks way more suspicious.