Can our mainstream media, on behalf of their Democrat cohorts, possibly be going after President Trump on the grounds that he might have asked the Ukraine’s head of state to investigate shady dealings by Joe Biden on behalf of his son?
In a word, yes.
Want just one example of many? OK. From Allen Cullison, Rebecca Ballhous and Dustin Volz’s article for the Wall Street Journal, we have this:
President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden ’s son, according to people familiar with the matter, urging Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani on a probe that could hamper Mr. Trump’s potential 2020 opponent.
“He told him that he should work with [Mr. Giuliani] on Biden, and that people in Washington wanted to know” if his lawyer’s assertions that Mr. Biden acted improperly as vice president were true, one of the people said. Mr. Giuliani has suggested Mr. Biden’s pressure on Ukraine to fight corruption had to do with an investigation of a gas company for which his son was a director. A Ukrainian official this year said he had no evidence of wrongdoing by Mr. Biden or his son Hunter Biden.
Mr. Trump in the call didn’t mention a provision of U.S. aid to Ukraine, said this person, who didn’t believe Mr. Trump offered the Ukrainian president any quid-pro-quo for his cooperation on any investigation.
My first reaction to what you just read can be summed up on one word: “And?”
If I’m reading this right, the latest get-Trump bombshell is that President Trump asked Ukraine President Zelensky to look into a deal Joe Biden may have stuck his nose into that made Biden’s dissolute son, Hunter, a rich man.
What’s wrong with that?
And the “whistleblower” driving this story tells us that, to his knowledge, Trump didn’t try to bribe Zelensky personally or promise to give anything to the Ukraine, he only asked for an investigation into an odoriferous deal – one we have been talking about in this blog for months. In fact, one of my blogs on this deal referenced an article from the Trump-hating New York Times, which clearly indicated The Times found that it reeked as much as I did.
The bottom line, therefore, is that this latest effort to undo the Trump presidency is based on the fact that he asked a head of state to investigate a shady deal involving his country, that clearly begs for investigation.
As I said earlier: “And?”
What is the idea here? That if Biden is vying for the Democrat presidential nomination, he is entitled to a free pass on anything he’s done, no matter how badly it stinks?
The most amazing irony here is that Biden himself – with the cameras rolling – freely admitted he pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor investigating his son’s shady deal.
Doubt me? Here is the video.
In other words Trump is being attacked for allegedly (and, in my view, entirely properly) trying to pressure the Ukraine to investigate Biden and his son….after Biden – while Vice President of the United States – openly, brazenly, and with a big smile, bragged about threatening the Ukraine with the loss of $1 billion dollars if it didn’t fire the prosecutor looking into a stinko deal that made his son rich.
Harry Houdini could not contort himself more completely than the way media are contorting the facts and realities of this story from the Biden scandal that it is, into a nothingburger attack on Trump.
And then they wonder why fewer and fewer people trust them? Wow.
Attack your opponents with accusations of the terrible things you have done, that way when your opponents say the same thing about you, it lessens the impact.