So you can't get Ukraine to do what you want by threatening to withhold congressionally approved aid? Illegally pressuring is bad!!!
You can't get the Ukraine to illegally slander and smear your political opponent in the election, by withholding military aid. Just because Trump got away with it by having the Russians smear Hillary Clinton, he thought he could get away with it a second time, by having the Ukrainians do it. That's very illegal.
But when the Administration you're working for, establishes certain conditions to the aid - like getting rid of corrupt Russian officials attempting to undermine the Ukrainian government, and NATO, and the IMF all ask you to get rid of these corrupt Russians within the Ukrainian government as a condition to giving aid to the Ukrainians, that's an entirely different set of circumstances.
Once again Republicans take a grain of truth - Joe Biden very publicly went to the Ukraine, and told the government to fire the Russian prosecutor who refused to prosecute corruption in the Ukraine. Burisma was one of the companies this corrupt prosecutor had refused to prosecute. Trump changed the story completely, and had Biden going to the Ukraine to stop the prosecution of Burisma. There is a germ of truth to it.
Despite a Senate GOP investigation that found no wrongdoing by Joe Biden on foreign policy in Ukraine, claims to the contrary continue to circulate.
www.usatoday.com
Trump's reworking of this story, is similar to Peter Sweitzer's reworking of the Uranium One story. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed off on the Uranium One deal. But Clinton had no part in the approval of the deal, attended no hearings, twisted no arms, and simply signed off on behalf of the State Department because her technical staff who did attend the meetings, told her to do so. State wasn't even the lead agency on the deal, the Energy Department was the lead agency.
But Sweitzer had Clinton taking a bribe to sell uranium to Russia, and telling you SHE pushed the deal through because of a bribe paid to her two years after the deal was concluded. Who pays a bribe AFTER you've already received what you want? Bribes are paid in order to get what you want, not after you have it. But you still believe Hillary pushed the Uranium One deal through because she was bribed.
Just like you believe Barrack Obama is a Muslim who was born in Kenya. And Donald Trump won the election. And the economy does better when a Republican is in the White House. Because the Republican Party said so.
You're still that stupid and gullible, after everything that's happened.