Three days before his phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky it's likely that Trump read, or was told about, a story in the Washington Post about, at the minimum, the apparent conflict of interest of Joe Biden demanding as a quid pro quo for $1B in US aid that the Ukraine fire a prosecutor who was looking into Burisma, the company that paid Joe's son $3.1 million dollars.
The WaPo article said:
From the moment Hunter Biden took the job in 2014, Republicans have said it presented a conflict of interest for the Bidens. Joe Biden, then the vice president, was the point person on Ukraine policy in President Barack Obama’s administration. Biden offered U.S. aid to Ukraine to increase gas production, which could benefit the Ukrainian energy industry.
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Just a few weeks after his father’s visit to Ukraine, Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings. His friend and business partner, Devon Archer, also joined the board, saying the company had the potential to be another ExxonMobil. Archer did not respond to requests for comment.
So is it surprising that within 72 hours of that article coming out Trump would say:
“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that.”
Clearly not. Democrats are acting as though Trump had no reason to have thought about the Biden's corruption during the call but the reality is that if the Washington Post assigning a team of reporters to write a major story on the subject doesn't mean that there's "a lot of talk" about it or that it doesn't mean that " a lot of people want to find out about that" then nothing ever will.
The simple reality is that right up until Adam Schiff started claiming that Trump looking into corruption was an impeachable offense even left wing outlets like the WaPo and the Atlantic viewed Joe Biden's actions as highly problematic as did Obama's State Department.
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