President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens, according to unpublished manuscript by former adviser, John R. Bolton.

As I stated, Biden, as VP, had no room to make the deal in the first place

And you know who is constitutionally mandated to investigate corruption? The POTUS.

At best, he was the negotiator on behalf of Obama, but at the very most this means he would have had to pull the Obama administration into the scheme—this wasn’t Biden writing his own check for his own goals.

Huh, almost as if the whole Obama admin stood to lose if Hunter was proven to have corruptly received his position on their board.

“Looking into it” is fine, assuming you do so with the methods at your legal disposal. Asking a foreign nation dependent on your military aid which you have illegally frozen to investigate a political opponent 5 years after the fact (and 3 years after taking office of which 2 were spent with a GOP-controlled congress) after cutting global anti-corruption spending (including to said foreign country) is absolutely not fine, especially when you only ever take steps to ensure the announcement and don’t even care about the outcome of the investigation.

That's a funny way of saying its legal but Trump bad. Nothing he did was illegal you fucking cum-rag; the aid was released, with nothing asked or received, without Ukraine even knowing it was held, and it was all BEFORE THE AID DEADLINE. It wasn't crutial military aid - it wouldn't have been used for MONTHS. And somebody running for President doesn't make them immune from investigation, and the POTUS has not only the RIGHT but OBLIGATION to investigate corruption.

You fucking losers still can't get over the fact that he's in office, and will continue to find new straws to grasp after this LEADS TO NOTHING. And you'll do so shamelessly, like you probably did with Russia and every other pre-cursor to this Ukraine BS.

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