Posted on 09/27/2019 5:35:51 PM PDT by John Semmens
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) denounced President Trump's suggestion that spying on him by the CIA might be treason. "We should thank our lucky stars that there are people within the federal government who are not intimidated by Trump's election as president," Schiff exclaimed. "The fearless heroes of the CIA and FBI who have diligently worked to undo the tragic results of the 2016 presidential election deserve our thanks and praise. Trump's attempt to portray what they have done in a negative light is despicable."
"Clearly, Trump's request to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that his government look into a matter that occurred years ago between then Vice-President Biden and the previous Ukrainian administration is what is really treasonous," Schiff argued. "Trump's attempt to portray the leverage Vice-President Biden utilized to help out his son as a bad thing was an attack on family values. Joe Biden previously lost his eldest son, Beau, to brain cancer. His youngest son, Hunter, was facing a rocky future after being ousted from the US Navy for drug addiction. The millions in consultant fees that Joe helped him obtain from a Ukrainian company enabled Hunter to avoid becoming unemployed and saved the government the expense of having to pay unemployment benefits to Joe's boy. Trump's slander against Joe warrants his impeachment."
The Congressman also espied "a double standard in Trump's actions. Back in 2011 a 'rookie' reporter by the name of Chelsea Clinton snagged a $600,000 a year salary as an NBC 'soft news' specialist. Her salary was four to five times that of other NBC rookie reporters. Trump never challenged this. Everyone viewed it as payback for all the sacrifices her parents had made in their decades of public service. Well, Joe Biden has given America four decades of public service. We should be grateful that he took the initiative to arrange a payback for his lone surviving son. Trump's hypocrisy in these two virtually identical instances is reprehensible."
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton echoed Schiff's charges saying "The president of the United States has betrayed our country. Joe Biden didn't inherit a billion dollars. He, like Bill and I, had to claw his way to the top using every bit of the influence granted by the voters in our political system. This social mobility is crucial to our way of government. Trump's assault on it undermines justice. We must act. He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I pray that our guardians within the government will be able to save us from this danger."
Former Massachusetts Gov. and current candidate for the Republican presidential nomination Bill Weld agreed with Schiff and Clinton, advising that "we stop tip-toeing around the issue. Trump's phone call was treasonous. He ought to be executed."
A contrasting view was offered by Ukrainian Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin. "I had been investigating numerous instances of potential corruption," Shokin said. "The hiring of Hunter Biden—a man with no expertise in Ukrainian affairs or the energy business interests of Burisma—for essentially a 'no show' job raised my suspicions. The very public demand by Vice-President Biden, who apparently had the full support of President Obama, that my investigation be stopped or crucial financial aid to my country would be blocked was pure extortion. President Poroshenko met Biden's demand by firing me. Biden's later public boasting about how he got me fired confirms my suspicions about the corrupt nature of his son's hiring by Burisma."
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As always, spot on!
Gee, millions of dollars to keep his son from being unemployed. I sure wouldn’t want my drug-addicted son (if I had one) to have a job paying millions. I would want him to have a job, preferably with some degree manual labor, that just paid the bills, rent, and groceries. I don’t feel much sympathy anyway for any politician who throws his weight around to get his failure of a son a job that pays millions of dollars. Do these elitists have ANY conception of just how unrelatable they are?
Oops, I missed the sarcasm label. But it really my fault? Democrat thinking is so abnormal it is hard to tell satire from reality.
The Dems’ treasonous comment about treason is treasonous.
Well crafted.
It sure is upside-down isn’t it?
Let’s see - Vice President Biden is put in charge of US-Ukraine relations by President Obama. VP Biden obviously can’t accept a bribe from Ukraine. But his son Hunter, who is not known as any kind of expert on Ukraine or the oil patch business, somehow lands a consultancy or board seat on a Ukrainian energy company earning $50,000 a month. Very suspicious. But there’s more.
Ukraine’s government suspects that the Ukrainian company paying Hunter is corrupt puts a prosecutor on the case to conduct an investigation. VP Biden catches wind of this investigation and flies out to meet with the government of Ukraine and says “get rid of that prosecutor or I will cut off $1.2 billion in aid”.
Now, under normal circumstances, what interest would the US Government have over who is the prosecutor investigating an internal matter in a foreign country? None, really. But this is not a normal circumstance. This is an exceptional one because the VPs son is connected to the company.
So flash forward, we have a new POTUS and he sees all this and wonders (for many valid reasons) whether some in the US government have acted in a corrupt and illegal manner. So he calls Ukraine and asks them to look into the matter and report back to the Attorney General.
But according to the Dems, the affairs of the Bidens with all their appearance of criminality should be left alone -— and the mere request to investigate whether the Bidens acted corruptly is itself corrupt and worthy of impeachment!
This is totally upside down and nuts.
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