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Originally Posted by jwb
So wait... Asking him to be patient (based on the election cycle) is a more clear quid pro quo than withholding aid and asking him to dig dirt up on your political rival. Are you serious?
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Yeah, because Obama did all that without consulting anyone and made promises ahead of actually getting re-elected. That's like Trump next year in 2020 talking to Putin or Kim Jong-un and telling them "I'm gonna do all this stuff for you after I get re-elected".
All I'm saying is that if that kind of thing wasn't impeachable in 2012, why would Trump expressing concerns about a Democratic nominee for POTUS having ties (financial or otherwise) to a country that colluded against him in 2016 with the DNC not be a concern?
Don't forget that the whole reason that Fusion GPS and then Christopher Steele got paid big bucks to go "dig up dirt' on Trump during the last election was because some people "thought" Trump had ties to another world power. And it wasn't even based on hard evidence.
It's a fact that Joe Biden squashed an investigation into his son and threatened to hold back billions in aid to Ukraine if Shokin (that prosecutor) wasn't fired. And the memos that have come out about that situation over the past few months have shown that it wasn't some cut and dry thing where Shokin wasn't doing his job either. It's super fishy and nobody ever really looked into it because the words "Trump" and "Russia" weren't stamped on a piece of paper.