Alert The Press: US Foreign Aid Comes With Strings Attached

Biden is on video bragging about how the Obama administration threatened to withhold aid unless the Ukrainians fired their chief prosecutor.



Trump apparently wanted Ukraine to investigate this possible corruption, implying that aid hung in the balance.

Let us just say from the start, that if a politician conditions anything he has official power over, on an entirely private gain, that would be impeachable corruption.

Given that Biden's son Hunter, was being paid $1 million per year by a crony capitalist company in Ukraine for what one would assume was influence peddling services and the Obama administration made aid conditional on the firing of a prosecutor, who says he was looking into that deal--It seems reasonable to think that this should be investigated.

Democrats want us to believe that Trump's only reason for asking Ukraine to investigate the Bidens is because Joe Biden is running for president. That might be part of what motivates Trump, maybe all of what Trump really cares about. But it isn't going to work.

Why? Because of the hypocrisy: The Democrats can't on one hand, claim that quid pro quo is de facto bad and pretend Biden is not on tape bragging about just that. They cannot move to the: What Biden did was in the US interest claim, without opening that same argument up to Republicans.

The fact is, that the Biden's deal has not been investigated through official channels and it is therefore of nebulous ethical quality. E.g. It is still a worthy subject for an official inquiry. And since many of the subjects are Ukrainian, it would help to have them on-board. The US, for all our power, cannot really subpoena people from other countries.