You can’t be bribing anyone when the action is to honor a treaty between the two countries. And Trump disqualified himself from the investigation as he was not a ruling faction of it at that time and handed it to the Attorney General with a witnessing statement only. He can only recuse himself when and if he is forced to make a call on anything within the case as president. He is not a judge and is not in on the investigation being accomplished in the Ukraine.
rwood
Just so. I’ve never understood this part of the rat narrative. If it were a crime it would be extortion, that is threatening to withhold appropriated aid, bribery would be the offering of something you’re not already entitled to. Maybe it’s just that the focus groups were even more dim that your typical democrat