For the past few days, we have been hearing about the latest "scandal" involving President Trump. Someone, apparently withing the intelligence apparatus, has made a "whistle blower" complaint that Trump made some improper representation, promise, or other statement to a foreign leader. The White House says it is protected under executive privilege and that Congress has no business digging into what he told some foreign leader. The Dems in Congress want it all released.
It now is being reported that the foreign leader in question is the president of Ukraine,Volodymyr Zelensky, and it is alleged that Trump tried to convince him to investigate Hunter Biden, who happens to be the son of Joe Biden.
Investigate for what? In 2014, Hunter was appointed to the board of directors for Burisma, Ukraine's largest non-governmental natural gas producer, during the Obama-Biden adminisitration and that his American-based company, Rosemont-Seneca LLC, was receiving some $166,000 a month from Burisma-which also happened to be under investigation by the prosecutor general of Ukraine, Viktor Shokin-until then -Vice President Biden told the then-Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, that if he didn't fire the Shokin, Ukraine was going to lose out on some billion dollars in US loan guarantees. Guess what: The prosecutor was fired, and his successor dismissed the case.
But that's all just an allegation, right? There's no proof-no smoking gun. Actually, there is. You see, we have Biden's admission-proud admission- that he did exactly that. It came during a public appearance in which Uncle Joe told a crowd just how he had done it.
So by all means, let's let it all hang out there. Let Trump take the heat for telling a foreign leader that there was a Ukrainian corruption case involving an American named Hunter Biden that should be re-opened. Let Joe Biden explain to the nation why he engineered the firing of the Ukrainian interior minister who was investigating his son. Let's see who is the most embarrassed. Whatever Trump's motive might have been (political), a president is entirely within his rights to advise a foreign leader to investigate corruption in his country that involves an American.
This is not the only instance of Uncle Joe lining his son's pockets. As VP in December 2013, he traveled to China on a trade mission and brought Hunter along. When they left, Hunter had obtained a billion-dollar contract with the Chinese government.
If Trump did something improper, shame on him. (I am not yet convinced.) If the Dems want a full airing of the issue, fine. It seems clear to me that Biden's transgressions were a lot worse than Trump's.
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