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red sox 777 posted...

So people seem to be taking the position that it was okay for Joe Biden to engage in a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government based on massive pressure (withholding a billion dollars of aid) because it was done to fight corruption.

If that's the case, the Donald Trump is definitely innocent, because that's exactly what he did.

i'd go a step further: it'd even be okay if Biden did it fully aware that he's benefiting his son. as long as Joe doesn't explicitly connect anything directly to Hunter, his situation gets a pass. if Trump goes on the attack for it, he can counterpunch with Ivanka, Jared, and Jr (sorry Eric) so hard that it'll become an irrelevant point at worst and a point in his favor at best. yet when you make this situation be the basis of your impeachment the whole thing looks shitty. "you impeached Trump because he went after a corruption scandal involving a political rival's son making a million bucks a year in a foreign country doing a job he didn't earn?" if you're gonna go after him don't make it on a subject that sounds two-faced or like you're protecting one of your own. you can say it's the quid pro quo but that's the same way perjury was the crime with Bill: we all can see the underlying reason and that it's bullshit. then you add in the political theater aspects and it becomes really smelly bullshit.

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