(01-31-2020, 07:07 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(01-31-2020, 06:43 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: You don't get it.

A "negative story about Joe Biden" in the news"?  Really?  Telling the truth and it getting into the news is a "quid-pro-quo"?  You my liberal democrat friend have gone off the deep end.  You might want to run along and meet up with the other 6 or 7 Bernie or Warren supporters at their next rally.

If it was just a negative story, I wouldn't be worried.
As I already said, there is no evidence Joe or Hunter committed a crime as defined in US statutes. Accepting a job that you're not qualified for is not a crime.  Maybe it should be a crime. Withholding funds to influence a foreign government, even for personal benefit, is merely abuse of power. Maybe Joe should have been impeached in 2015. But by 2017 and later, he is out of office, and there's nothing for a government official to discuss. 

This is what I want you to understand. Starting in July of 2019, Trump could have made Joe Biden and Ukraine a topic of every stump speech. He could have his press secretary or anyone else he wants to hire in an informal role with his own money go on TV and talk about Joe Biden and Ukraine. Talk about how suspicious it is and how unethical it seems to be. None of that would have invoked any of the powers that are unique to his role as president. So none of that would have been an abuse of power. 

he could have gotten Joe Biden and Ukraine into the news just as much as it is right now, without abusing his power.

But he didn't. Why not?

There you go again...  

Structure of payments from Burisma.  Money laundering

Getting prosecutor fired to protect his son. Obstruction of justice, corrupt practices in violation of our treaty with Ukraine.  Criminal complaint filed this week.



1974 Impoundment control act: keeping ur son out of the clink isn't covered as an appropriate reason to pause aid.  

I've been explaining this to you for months now.

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