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Originally Posted by luckproof
So correct me if I'm wrong.
Trump was accused of withholding aide to Ukraine unless they investigated Biden and his son WRT Burisma.
Biden threatened to withhold aide if the prosecutor looking into his son's company wasn't fired. (Prosecutor was fired)
[Replying here to avoid derailing the other thread]
This is pretty much exactly why I commented on those two posts. This level of analysis is essentially equivalent to "assault weapons kill people, banning them will reduce gun deaths". At the most superficial level it's mostly accurate but ignores the entirety of the surrounding context.
What Biden did was entirely public and he was enacting bipartisan, congressionally approved foreign policy, that was also supported by many US allies. The stuff about Burisma is essentially irrelevant because the prosecutor was explicitly not taking any action about corruption, including having directly thwarted British investigations into Burisma by ignoring requests for information. It was the prosecutor's lack of action into cases such as Burisma that was the reason for the policy in the first place.
Conversely, Trump deliberately avoided official channels and withheld congressionally approved funding. He was trying to get an (announcement of an) investigation into a political rival for actions that had already been investigated.
Incidentally the investigation into Burisma had nothing to do with Hunter Biden because it was focused on events that had occurred long before he was on the board. While Hunter taking the role was probably a bad idea, and him being offered it in the first place is something of an indictment of nepotism throughout the world, there was has never been even the slightest bit of evidence that he ever did/was involved with anything illegal.