Maroon Dawn said:
Gary Johnson said:
Man accused of kidnapping says "I let them go eventually" as a legal defense
Man accused of bank robbery says "I got caught" before completing the robbery
President withholding aid in an extortion scheme gets caught and is forced to comply with congressional foreign policy mandate.
Come on guys this isn't that hard.
Is Biden innocent of the corruption(?)
I'll answer your question from my rationale, and then a Trump supporter's answer.
My opinion: it was corrupt.
But if I used the rationalizations and excuses Trump supporters used in this thread, it would look like this: Biden is innocent because
1. There was no quid pro quo between Buresma and Joe Biden.
2. Even if there was a quid pro quo, it was legal.
3. People do quid pro quo's all the time.
4. Ok, maybe it was an illegal quid pro quo, but Joe Biden never fulfilled his end of the bargain, so it's "no harm & no foul" and therefore irrelevant.
5. Even if it was an illegal quid pro quo by Biden, it doesn't rise to the level of prosecutability.
6. I don't care if Biden took $1M in bribes. Policy is all that matters. (aka the Bo Darville rationalization)
7. Vice-President Biden was VP in the Executive Branch, and the EB is empowered by the Constitution to do foreign policy. So it was 100% legal.