Ed Henry: “So you’re okay with a president asking another president to dig up dirt on a candidate?”
Yes, a bit sloppy. What if Ed Henry had said this instead:
“So you’re okay with a president asking another president to investigate a candidate?”
For me that would have been fine. For Levin I’m not so sure. But the simple answer is that CANDIDACY does not equal IMMUNITY. It sure didn’t for Trump and doesn’t for Biden either.
But not to confuse anyone who thinks I am equating those two activities I’m not. The Trump Investigation was a wide and deep conspiracy based on made up evidence. The proposed Biden investigation was a simple request to add Biden to a hoped for corruption investigation by Ukraine. And you can find the justification for that request on YouTube. At least for awhile.
...CANDIDACY does not equal IMMUNITY....
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Not in a Western democracy where anyone can become a candidate.
CPL was a candidate, for one extreme example. On our side, Sara Palin was a candidate, too.
Just because someone (even Trump) can claim to be a target due to political positioning (and he would be correct), here Trump is: elected and campaigning for a 2nd term and barraged with accusations, threats and invective.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to discover that the string-pullers desire the USA become a parliamentary system. It’s more chaotic and gives more power to marginalized positions, which allows even more corruption to spread through the elites.