There’s an idea bounced around by President Trump’s opponents, including the national media, that if he wanted investigations related to Joe Biden and his 49-year-old son Hunter, he should have pursued them through U.S. law enforcement, instead of asking Ukraine to do it.
If only Trump had asked his Justice Department to take a look at the Bidens, he could have avoided this whole impeachment thing.
Sure!
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent made this ridiculous point Wednesday during his opening testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee. He said that any suspicions about “criminal” activity related to Americans should be addressed by U.S. law enforcement, including those stationed overseas.
This has exactly nothing to do with anything. No one is accusing either Bidens of a crime. Trump simply believes they’re corrupt, and there is certainly evidence of that in regard to Hunter’s dealings with the shady Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings.
Joe Biden himself has admitted that Hunter’s inexplicable, lucrative role on the company’s board didn’t really sit well with him.
Besides, in his midsummer phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump did ask that he speak with Attorney General William Barr about any investigations. Here we are.
But just because something isn’t criminal doesn’t mean it isn’t corrupt. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t know more about it.
The Clinton’s may have done nothing criminal by using their foundation as a slush fund. But it was investigated by one great investigator, and he found a lot of there there. Unfortunately, most of the news media has no interest in what went on with Hunter Biden and his father’s role in pressing to have a Ukrainian prosecutor fired, even though that prosecutor was investigating Burisma.
