Are you saying think it's ok for a president to ask other governments to open investigations on their political rivals to help them get re elected?
Or are you saying you don't think Trump asked Ukraine and China to investigate Biden and his son because he thought it would help him get more votes if Biden were nominated. Basically it was just a coincidence that Biden happened to be his most likely General Election opponent.
Or is it something else I'm missing?
I see nothing wrong with asking anyone to open an investigation if there is suspicion of a crime. I'm all about criminals being investigated, and even more importantly...and much more rarely...actually prosecuted. Being a politician should not insulate one from investigation into wrongdoing or give someone a free pass for criminal behavior. That's a big problem that the U.S. and many other countries have and part of the reason why we have such corrupt governments.
If politician A asks country B to investigate a non-existent crime against politician B for political reasons then politician A is committing a crime for which he/she can be punished. That's the deterance. If politician B is guilty of a crime then it's doing the world a favor to pound his balls flat.
The thing is, when you're the president you have the FBI, CIA, and DOJ all at your disposal. They are all fully capable of investigating Bidens and his sons behavior as VP, even if it involved another country - and if they found anything it could actually be used to prosecute Bide. He also could have gone through the Department of State.
Instead he asked the president of Ukraine to do him a favor. I mean, wtf?
Even if Ukraine comes back and says "oh yeah, Biden broke our laws, he's guilty!" It literally would mean nothing over here criminally. The only thing it would do was give Trump ammo to attack Biden on the campaign trail.
Am I making sense?Here's an idea: How about if the political parties put forward candidates who are not criminals? Someone should try that someday.
Nixon, Carter, Raegan, Bush, Bush, Obama, most of the GOP candidates from 2016 and all the Dem candidates besides Biden, Beto and Warren (I'll throw her in so we don't have to debate the pocohantas thing.)
I'm not aware of any evidence, or even semi-reasonable accusations that any of these people were criminals when they were running for president.
(Exceptions being marijuana use, Bernie getting arrested for protesting and Nixons campaign for second term)
I bolded a good idea almost seeing what is happening.
Dems vs Repubs. Is the exact same as the WWF. Trump is a combo of Vince McMan and the Undertaker and the Dems are putting up meatball canonfodder good guys
Ie Trump is winning the election after he is impeached and not removed when the senate backs him.
His campaign will be Obama Biden Biden did quid quo pro with Ukraine and the only way to prove their crimes was for him to muscle the Ukraine into telling the truth.
It is all laid out on tv for us to view. Btw White House spoke about foreign influence and elections today.
Saying there will always be that condition. They are right fox tv was own by an australian and nbc was owned by a French company for a while.
Sadly it is just another WWF show with the bad guy beating on some meatballs.
All this will setup Pete booty-check for prez in 2020.