“I would disagree that bribery would be applicable for this reason: For bribery to have been committed, you have to be asking someone to do something that they would not otherwise do with President Zelinsky, who ran an entire campaign on rooting out corruption,” Gaetz said. “He even said to the president he didn’t believe enough had been done yet, and he needed to make changes with prosecutors to ensure justice was done in the Ukraine. And it seems only justifiable then to say, ‘Well, if you’re looking under the hood, let’s make sure there weren’t Americans, or American administrations were Joe Biden linked to any of that corruption. So, I don’t think the bribery charge will stick because it fails to meet an essential element.”
He's making the obvious point that asking Zelensky who campaigned on ending corruption to work to end corruption is just encouraging Zelensky to do what he has already said he wants to do.
The Democrats are effectively saying that a mom offering her son an ice cream cone is "bribing" her son to eat ice cream.
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