What I've just described is essentially what House Democrats have done to President Trump in the Senate impeachment trial on the matter of the Bidens and Burisma.
The argument goes, when Trump asked President Zelensky for an investigation of the Bidens, it is inconceivable that Trump could actually have been concerned about rooting out corruption.
What's more, Trump had to have been asking Zelensky, in effect, to lie about Biden - to fabricate a corruption case - because everyone knew the Bidens had done nothing wrong.
Trump's more sensible defenders point out that even if it was imprudent for Trump to invoke Biden's name and the specter of domestic politics in his conversation with Zelensky, and even if it was inappropriate for Trump to encourage a foreign government to investigate an American citizen for violations of foreign law, there was nothing illegal about it.
Even though the House impeachment managers are now arguing about Biden corruption allegations in their Senate presentation, the two leaders of the House impeachment inquiry, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler, took the position that Republican claims about the Bidens were irrelevant - a partisan red herring to distract from the "Real" issues.
Even though Schiff began the House hearings with an absurd parody version of the Trump-Zelensky conversation, falsely suggesting that Trump had asked Zelensky to "Make up dirt" about Biden, the House denied the president the opportunity to prove that he was actually asking for help investigating activity that, objectively, appears quite suspicious and potentially corrupt.
Even if such an investigation would have helped Trump politically, it is a much different scenario if there was a real basis to believe the Bidens' conduct should be scrutinized.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/trump-impeachment-trial-democrats-burisma-bait-and-switch/
The argument goes, when Trump asked President Zelensky for an investigation of the Bidens, it is inconceivable that Trump could actually have been concerned about rooting out corruption.
What's more, Trump had to have been asking Zelensky, in effect, to lie about Biden - to fabricate a corruption case - because everyone knew the Bidens had done nothing wrong.
Trump's more sensible defenders point out that even if it was imprudent for Trump to invoke Biden's name and the specter of domestic politics in his conversation with Zelensky, and even if it was inappropriate for Trump to encourage a foreign government to investigate an American citizen for violations of foreign law, there was nothing illegal about it.
Even though the House impeachment managers are now arguing about Biden corruption allegations in their Senate presentation, the two leaders of the House impeachment inquiry, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler, took the position that Republican claims about the Bidens were irrelevant - a partisan red herring to distract from the "Real" issues.
Even though Schiff began the House hearings with an absurd parody version of the Trump-Zelensky conversation, falsely suggesting that Trump had asked Zelensky to "Make up dirt" about Biden, the House denied the president the opportunity to prove that he was actually asking for help investigating activity that, objectively, appears quite suspicious and potentially corrupt.
Even if such an investigation would have helped Trump politically, it is a much different scenario if there was a real basis to believe the Bidens' conduct should be scrutinized.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/trump-impeachment-trial-democrats-burisma-bait-and-switch/
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