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Old 11-16-2019, 03:11 PM   #4231 (permalink)
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it is relevant to most Americans if the children of top leaders are financially getting propped up by their parents' connections on the backs of China, Ukraine, wherever.
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Old 11-16-2019, 03:12 PM   #4232 (permalink)
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We wouldn't be seeing an impeachment hearing right now if Biden wasn't running in 2020.
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Old 11-16-2019, 03:13 PM   #4233 (permalink)
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Doesn't he have pretty much everything to do with it? We wouldn't be seeing an impeachment hearing right now if Biden wasn't running in 2020. The whistleblower only felt concerned enough to report it because Biden is perceived as Trump's primary political rival in 2020, no?
Please answer my question.
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Old 11-16-2019, 03:13 PM   #4234 (permalink)
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Please answer my question.
Biden threatened to withhold billions in military aid over that prosecutor Viktor Shokin's supposed lack of action in regards to investigating corruption in Ukraine, but Shokin claims that he was actually starting to make progress and was only fired because Biden didn't want him investigating Burisma. So you have two different stories, and the question of whether or not Trump's phone call vs what Biden tried to do were comparable was actually discussed during the Friday testimonies and is a point of contention.
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Old 11-16-2019, 03:16 PM   #4235 (permalink)
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Trump's children were all doing business all over the planet for years before he ran for President.
Are you really this dense or are you just putting on an act to ruffle feathers?
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Old 11-16-2019, 03:23 PM   #4236 (permalink)
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He'll let go of his whataboutisms when you pry them out of his cold dead hands.
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Well you see, it's not whataboutism because it supports Anteater's stance.
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Old 11-16-2019, 03:37 PM   #4238 (permalink)
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Biden threatened to withhold billions in military aid over that prosecutor Viktor Shokin's supposed lack of action in regards to investigating corruption in Ukraine.
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USAToday - "Biden has boasted about his role in getting Shokin fired. During a 2018 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, he said he withheld $1 billion in loan guarantees for Ukraine in order to force the government to address the problem with its top prosecutor.

"I looked at them and said: 'I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time," he said."
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Biden threatened to withhold billions in military aid over that prosecutor Viktor Shokin's supposed lack of action in regards to investigating corruption in Ukraine, but Shokin claims that he was actually starting to make progress and was only fired because Biden didn't want him investigating Burisma. So you have two different stories, and the question of whether or not Trump's phone call vs what Biden tried to do were comparable was actually discussed during the Friday testimonies and is a point of contention.
**** him too. Just because it's used as a distractionary tactic by Republicans doesn't make it not whataboutism. It demands a separate trial and to think otherwise in this case is nothing more than selective authoritarianism.

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I mean you're not wrong but lolcopter on how ironic your post is given that you're a CNN junkie.
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