Why would asking for an investigation of a political opponent, who has been accused in news reports of potentially corrupt actions, be an abuse of power?

Oh please. Steele was the agent for the DNC in relation to the fake dossier. It is as easy to believe he would have handed over the work product the DNC paid him to create to the FBI without their knowledge or consent as it is to believe that Giuliani would go off and do something related to the investigations on his own initiative.

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Lol, logic?

This is tribal, there’s no need for critical thinking.

As far as the “hired by a guy that was hired by a guy” that is hardly an exculpatory arrangement. That is something that happens when you know you are doing something wrong and want to hide it.

I want nothing, i want nothing, no quid pro quo.

I love how in this instance of what we now know to have happened that there are assumptions made but in the case of what the President has done in real time has not been met with the same level of skepticism

Like hiring Cohen and Guliani? :joy:

Talk about a non analogous situation.

Presumably :joy:.

Do you have any actual evidence of what you claim?

Who originally paid for the dossier again. Getting a little hazy

What’s your point in comparing this to what Trump has done? A
Are you claiming that Steele didn’t get punished, so Rudy shouldnt get punished?
Are you claiming both committed a crime?
What is your reasoning behind trying to equate the two?

A private entity getting opposition research isn’t doing anything wrong.

Let’s say that President Trump were to get opposition research on the Bidens to use in the upcoming election

A totally legal way is to use campaign or party funds to hire lawyers who would hire a guy to dig up dirt.

A totally impeachable way is to use the power of the office to lean on the President of a foreign nation to publicly announce that there is an investigation into said political rival or congressionally mandated funds will be withheld

See the difference?

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Not sure what you mean exactly. Perhaps you mean because we know releasing the fake dossier was wrong, but Democrats are after the President for what they think he would have done but he didn’t do, like not giving Ukraine the aid?

Hiw do you feel trump and others using the Facebook app to conduct govt business?

As for as the history of the dossier, educate yourself.
As far as “presumption” that takes us right back to the source of the rumor that Trump was holding back aid over the investigations. Sondland said no one told him that, he :“presumed” it. You are correct, presumption is not sufficient to remove a President.

Who paid for it originally?

Did the Dossier make several Trump associates collude with Russians? Did the dossier make them lie about it?

Where in the constitution does it say that again?

Once again.

The public knowledge of the Steel Dossier was not known until after the election

There was no way it could have effected the 2016 election.

What President Trump attempted was to circumvent the normal channels of investigation and diplomacy by withholding funds in order to put pressure on a foreign power to publicly investigate a potential political rival.

Be aware.

That is the future that you are fighting for right now.

Only one guy bragged about breaking up an investigation into one company in one country.

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Of course that wouldn’t have been necessary, since Biden shot off his mouth on camera about what he did. No such dossier fabrication was necessary.

Know what?

To me, the request is about the only was we (this nation) have to start looking into the corruption of the Obama regime – the same regime that is behind the corrupt dossier and the whole coup to take down THEIR political conqueror.

Which was the public policy of the US and the entire Western World.