Whistle-Blower Part III (Excuses, excuses, excuses)

One of Trump's go-to moves when he is accused of something is to to accuse someone else, often his accusers, of exactly what he is being accused of. How many times have we heard "Obama did something worse", or "What about the Clinton's"? And it's no surprise that he's trotting this move out in the face of the upcoming impeachment inquiry.

Despite the questionable wisdom of the Vice President's son taking a position as a consultant in a Ukrainian company while the Vice President was the point man in an effort to curb corruption in the Ukrainian government, neither Vice President Biden nor his son Hunter have done anything to cause the Ukrainian government to press charges or to further investigate Hunter Biden or Bursima, the company on whose board that he served. The main argument by Trump and his sycophants when confronted with Trump's efforts to use a foreign government to further his personal agenda is point the finger back at Vice President Biden. "What about Biden?" they shriek, "What he did is worse!" There's also a letter from three Democratic Senators urging Ukrainian prosecutors to continue their investigation into Paul Manafort when they were being pressured by the Trump administration to drop their investigation. The disjointed logic seems to be "This thing that I did is okay because 'the other side' did it, but it's bad that 'the other' side did it" (Logic is not a strong suit with Trumpists)

If Vice President Biden used his position to protect his son, then why is it just coming up now, instead of when he was still in office and the opposition party controlled both houses of Congress? Why would Vice President Biden push to have Ukraine dump their incompetent and corrupt chief prosecutor who wasn't investigating Bursima or his son and see him replaced with a new chief prosecutor who did investigate Bursima and Hunter Biden.

Trump is also investing prime Twitter time suggesting that the whistle-blower, and those who passed on details of the call, are traitors, and cannot be believed because they have a partisan bias.

Media reports about the call and the complaint are labelled "fake news", even though they generally are reporting what Trump and his representatives have either said in public, or released in the "transcript" (actually a reconstruction of the call by note-takers). Representative Adam Schiff is being called upon to resign for "lying to Congress" because in a question to the Acting Director of National Intelligence he read what he thought Trump's conversation implied, rather than the literal text, even though he clearly said that he was relaying the "essence" of the call to a room full of people who had read (or at least had access to) the text itself.

The facts are not in dispute. Trump and his team of yes-men and faithful cult followers believe that what the facts say does not constitute a problem.

Whether there was an explicit linkage between aid to Ukraine and opening an investigation into Bursima and the Bidens is really irrelevant. Donald Trump asked a foreign government to take action that had no national security or economic interest, but benefited him personally, specifically to cast a shadow on a potential election opponent....

...again.

Impeach the son of a bitch.