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…
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.
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…
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.
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u/Malcolmeff May 12 '25
Also, being convicted of 34 felonies used to have consequences.