Look, a lot of people hate Trump, but if you're an American and don't appreciate the trade deal he just made with China, you're not paying attention. Both parties kicked the can down the road totally afraid to confront China fearing a trade war would ruin their political careers. Maybe Trump is stupid and reckless, but he tackled the China deal without harming the economy.
Every president for the last two decades or more has ignored the fact that China was stealing our intellectual property. It will be decades before people really understand how this is such a game changer.
Whereas China has millions of people working cheaply to produce products, the U.S. has mostly technology to sell, and having to supply China with plans and blueprints before anything could be built or sold there was saving them tons of money for research and development.
He also used congressionally allocated aid to pressure a foreign government to interfere with a domestic election. He did do that.
You're drawing a conclusion to a situation with no facts in evidence. The former Vice President's son had a job with a Ukrainian energy company for $1,000,000 a year despite the fact he knew nothing about energy and didn't speak the language. What access did Ukraine get to the U.S. government with the VP's son working for them for a million a year?
Was it all smoke and no fire? Maybe - I wasn't there. But if that isn't reason enough to at least suspect something is rotten in Ukraine, what the hell is? So Trump asks for an investigation for corruption before sending American (and mine) tax dollars to Ukraine. I'm not thrilled about seeing my tax dollars going to Ukraine, then being routed out to some corrupt politician back here in the states.
Everybody who hates Trumps doesn't see the fire or smoke, they see it strictly as a way for Trump to gain a campaign advantage.
Just because Biden is a candidate doesn't make him immune to scrutiny.
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BuckSwope (3511)
5 years ago
Then ask your own DOJ to investigate. Why the end-around? Why an illegal aid freeze to try and force an ally to launch an investigation?
And as far as the China "deal", there is nothing written in stone. China did not commit to a fucking thing but some arbitrary trade numbers which means jack shit from the Chinese. The intellectual property issue wasn't settled. China basically signed something where they promised to act in good faith. Do you see how flimsy that is?
Again, if Biden needs to be investigated, why didn't Trump go through his own DOJ? You can't look at that situation and not smell shit unless you are blinded by partisanship.
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strntz (12286)
5 years ago
End run?? He went right to the top!
If he wanted to do an end run he would have had minions working behind the scenes.
Also, the Dept of Justice has *zero* jurisdiction in a foreign country. Zero.
If Trump asked the doj to look into this, everybody would be screaming that he dropped the ball.
And you're wrong on any freeze being illegal. Every president has done this.
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BuckSwope (3511)
5 years ago
Right to the top to a foreign nation? To investigate an American citizen? Full stop.
And not every President has ever frozen aid allocated by Congress and given the "red light" by the DOJ.
Show me when that has happened.
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