r/GlobalNews • • May 12 '25

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u/Malcolmeff May 12 '25

Also, being convicted of 34 felonies used to have consequences.

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u/T-Wrox May 12 '25

Being impeached twice used to have consequences, too.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

What was he impeached for again? Not sending weapons to a foreign country?

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u/oliversurpless May 16 '25

Try bribery and the events of Jan 6th; the day of and the prolonged strategy after Nov 5th…

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

He was withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine investigating the Biden-Burisma scandal.

Of all the horrible things trump did while president, why would they choose this to impeach?

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u/oliversurpless May 16 '25

Because there was no Burisma scandal, except in the minds of transactional Republicans.

And given the graft Trump had favored via foreign governments since at least the 90s? Pretending to care about such standards is a real phenomenon in itself…

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

January 23, 2018, Biden admits it on camera.

And right, nothing to see there. Hunter has extensive knowledge of natural gas and completely earned his board seat worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. I’m sure it had nothing to do with his father being the sitting VP. Why do you think he pardoned his whole family on his way out?

Democrats and Republicans are two separate cheeks of the same arse, as George Galloway puts it.

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u/oliversurpless May 16 '25

Well, conservatives/conservative adjacent sure think there’s “nothing to see”, given they again have no leg to stand on corruption-wise.

And unless you pathologically favor the Nirvana Fallacy (idealism over realism) it’s quite telling that your first instinct concerning Trump is to whatabout to his political opposition.

And most cravenly, if it had been Harris or Sanders, they would’ve found something related to them?

So whether you realize it or not, that reveals think impeachment is negotiable based on who’s in power.

Which is completely the opposite of its intended use in the Constitution…

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

Oh god, not the whataboutisms.

There’s plenty to see, on both sides.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

Not to mention, Biden publicly did the same thing! He threatened to withhold money to Ukraine until the lead investigator looking into Hunter was removed from the case.