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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 10:43 AM Oct 2019

The funniest part is that Trump could have investigated Biden in a totally legal way.

Trump could have asked the DOJ to investigate Biden with respect to corruption in Ukraine.
Barr's DOJ would then have made up some rationale for why this investigation is warranted and would have reached out to the State Department.
The State Department would have reached out to ukrainian diplomats.
The ukrainian diplomats would have reached out to ukrainian prosecutors.
And the result would have been a joint investigation coordinated between the DOJ and ukrainian prosecutors.

Everything perfectly legal, perfectly transparent and with an unimpeachable paper-trail as innocent as freshly fallen snow.



And what did Trump do?
He personally asked an ukrainian politician to tell the ukrainian prosecutors to make the investigation happen.
He sent his private attorney to investigate, not a US government official.
And instead of coordinating with ukrainian law-enforcement, this private attorney acted abroad all by himself.



Why?
Trump didn't want a transparent investigation.
He didn't want an investigation with a paper-trail.




So, when Rudy Giuliani asks on Fox News whether Joe Biden is above the law purely by merit of being a candidate, the answer is No.
It's perfectly fine to investigate Joe Biden... as long as you do it by the book.

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The funniest part is that Trump could have investigated Biden in a totally legal way. (Original Post) DetlefK Oct 2019 OP
He also could have hired Fusion GPS mercuryblues Oct 2019 #1
fabrication not investigation Thomas Hurt Oct 2019 #2
Correct Qutzupalotl Oct 2019 #5
Not underhanded enough. Turbineguy Oct 2019 #3
+1000 nt USALiberal Oct 2019 #4
It would have been a repeat of the Obama Birth Certificate fiasco. gordianot Oct 2019 #6

Qutzupalotl

(14,313 posts)
5. Correct
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 11:28 AM
Oct 2019

Trump knew an investigation wouldn’t uncover anything, so he asked Ukraine to fabricate a story implicating the Bidens.

gordianot

(15,238 posts)
6. It would have been a repeat of the Obama Birth Certificate fiasco.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 11:29 AM
Oct 2019

Now there was an amazing investigation.

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