So Biden did some shady stuff acting as the Vice President of the US and the current President, who Constitutionally has the full executive power of the federal government, shouldn't be able to ask the government of the country where the shady stuff was going on, to investigate? I've got news for you...he has every right to do so given the suspicious circumstances around Biden's activities in Ukraine. He also has the ability to ask them to try to get to the bottom of the dirty dossier, the roots of which were in Ukraine. If he had gone to Canada and requested they try to dig up some dirt on Biden, that would likely be illegal, assuming there was no suspicion of wrong-doing by Biden in that country.
Correct. The accusation is that Trump is going after a political opponent, and he doesn't' even know who that opponent will be yet. As of now, Biden is sinking in the polls so it's not likely it will be him.
The President is asking a leader of a foreign country to look into possible illegalities by a representative of our country. Nothing wrong or illegal about it. This will not be a US investigation yet, it will be a Ukrainian investigation.
He knows that Biden stands a good chance of winning the Democrats' nomination.
He doesn't know that. You don't know it and I don't know it. Biden (as expected) is gaffing himself out of the election. How many times does the first horse out of the gates win the race?
Let me tell you what I see here: The Democrats got a hold of this phone call, and it set them into Defcon One mode. They are scared to death of something here. What it is, I can't tell you. But the idea that Zelensky is accommodating Trump's request has them in a do or die position. There is something they fear Zelensky will find out that will kill them in the 2020 elections, and not necessarily because of Biden, but the party in general.
So now they are in a rush to try and get rid of Trump. They're not worried about Pence. Pence is as establishment as they get on the Republican side. He is a guy that goes with the flow. So they bring up this stupid innocuous phone call to make a big deal out of. The only way to silence Zelensky is to get rid of Trump, or at least cast serious doubt about him.
Of course he knows that. As of now, there's only 3 viable Democrats running. Biden is one of them.
And it's irrelevant which one wins since as of now, Biden is a likely candidate, who Trump is trying to eliminate.
Using your un-American logic, Trump should be allowed to use his office to collude with a foreign national to take out Biden as he hasn't yet won the Democrats' nomination. Now if that's allowed, there's no reason you can invent for why he can't also do that against Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke and Pete Buttigieg.
According to POS's like you, Trump is perfectly within his rights as president to use his office to eliminate all competition so he can win unopposed. Just because you like licking the boots of a dictator doesn't mean others think like you.