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| Joe Biden and Ukraine is "Hillary's Emails" all over again |
| 2019-09-22 |
| [LI] We are in the middle of a media feeding frenzy over a supposed intelligence community whistleblower complaint on Trump’s conversation last summer with the Ukrainian president. We know almost nothing about the complaint or the conversation, but that has not stopped a full-blown "we’ve got him now!" type joyfulness throughout the mainstream media and Never-Trump-land. Lack of actual facts has not stopped Democrat candidates and various pundits from declaring that this is further ground for impeachment. The initial claim was that Trump threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine if it didn’t investigate the business dealings of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, while Joe was Vice President. Then the story changed, and maybe there wasn’t a quid pro quo, and maybe the whistleblower never actually heard the conversation. And so on and so on, a classic case of how the media tries and convicts Trump based on anonymous, shifting, and usually misinformed leaks. The foreign minister of Ukraine is now on record that there was no pressure put on the Ukrainian president in the conversation. We’ve been here, done that, dozens of times. Is this time different? Will they "get" Trump on this? As with the Russia Collusion claims, I’ll take it seriously when there is actual evidence. Until then, it’s just politically driven mischief masquerading as news. As an aside, there is a pernicious effect to leaking conversations a U.S. president has with the leaders of foreign countries, something that has plagued Trump since the start of his administration. But that’s a post for another time. There is an important story here that may take down a candidate. That candidate isn’t Donald Trump, it’s Joe Biden. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 He may not go to jail but he won't be going to the White House either. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-09-22 15:07 |
| #3 Everything old is new again ( Al Gore on soliciting Maybe he can represent himself, he has a law degree, right? Note that I did not say he was a lawyer, competent or otherwise. |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-09-22 13:15 |
| #2 Yup, another Dem pay-for-play scheme aka quid pro quo scheme. The new wrinkle is that the Dems have perfected the built-in exoneration scheme. There is little trust in the law out here if anyone in DC has noticed. Try not paying your taxes which supports these schemes and see what happens. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2019-09-22 10:44 |
| #1 And it'll end the same way - the ruling bureaucracy (from the lowest DMV clerk to the highest CIA career official) protects its own. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-09-22 04:08 |