Rigby5
Diamond Member
Obama approved.Okay so, Biden had no right to threaten another country? Right?Oh bullshit, he had the media in his hand and he knew it. He asked for a major favor. And you know it. Quit being a hack.Medvedev and he was telling him that political realities meant that he wasn't able to work on negotiations until elections were out of the way...because people like YOU would scream
Did he ask for foreign help in getting elected?
Absolutely not
Of course he asked for a favor, but it was a legal favor to aid the US in an investigation of whether or not Burisma Holdings broke the law.
That is not outside of the duties of the President.
The office of vice president is largely ceremonial, and has few actually duties or authorized actions.
The few duties a vice president does have, are succession if the president is unable, and under Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution, the vice president serves as president of the Senate and is allowed to vote on legislation when necessary to break a tie.
As president of the Senate, the vice president is assigned by the 12th Amendment to preside over the joint session of Congress in which the votes of the Electoral College are counted and reported.
So it can not be legal for Joe Biden to have withheld aid to the Ukraine for any reason.
However, to withhold that aid in order to help his son avoid investigation, is far more criminal, if true.
It would still be wrong for the VP to be making the call to the leader of the Ukraine, since it is the president who is supposed to conduct US diplomacy.
But even if Joe Biden was just acting with Obama's consent and intent, that would not make it legal to obstruct justice by forcing the firing of the Ukrainian Inspector General. Biden should have recused himself due to the obvious conflict of interests.