When 79-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Sept. 24 that she would go ahead with impeachment hearings on 73-year-old President Donald Trump, she didn’t anticipate the president’s full-throttled defense. Accused by Democrats of trying to influence the 2020 election by asking 41-year-old Ukrainian President Zolodymr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President and Democratic front-runner Joe Biden and his 50-year-old son, Hunter, what did Pelosi and the Democrats expect to happen? Starting impeachment hearings is serious business, prompting Trump and his backers to raise more doubts about Democrats’ charges prompting the impeachment hearings. Calling Biden “stone-cold crooked,” Biden reacted strongly on the campaign trail telling Trump he would not allow him to “destroy his family.” Biden refers to his son, Hunter, implicated by Trump in Ukraine’s corruption
Trump accused Hunter of corruption in the Ukraine receiving $50,000 a month on the board of Cypress-based Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings. Making $50,000 a month for three years for serving on a for-profit board is an ungodly sum of cash working anywhere, let alone a board. “Let me make something clear to Trump and his hatchet men, the special interests funding his attacks on me,” Biden said. “I’m not going anywhere. You’re not going to destroy me. And you’re not going to destroy my family. I don’t care how much money you spend or how dirty the attacks get,” Biden said. Trump’s attacks on Hunter and Joe pale in comparison to the Democrats’ attacks on Trump, accusing the president of committing high-crimes-and misdemeanors, starting impeachment hearings. Whether Biden admits it or not, he’s in the thick of a heated presidential race.
Announcing he impeachment inquiry Sept. 24, Pelosi said Trump betrayed his oath of office, violated U.S. campaign laws and breached the U.S. Constitution. Fingering Biden and his son for corruption doesn’t come close to questioning their fitness for duty or whether or not they committed treason. Democrats have accused Trump essentially of treason for asking the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe and Hunter. Trump contends that Biden, while former President Barack Obama’s Vice President in 2016, pressured former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire his chief prosecutor for investigating Burisma Holdings where Hunter served on the board. Biden’s caught on tape telling the Council on Foreign Relations in 2016 that he told Ukraine he’d withhold their foreign aid unless they fired chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Biden’s angry with Trump for implicating him or his son in corruption.
Biden’s overreaction telling Trump he won’t let him “destroy his family” exposes his sensitivity to the Ukrainian issue. While Joe has the media behind him, he still can’t account for how his son Hunter, with zero experience in the energy business, was getting paid $50,000 a month. Trump raised other issues with Hunter getting China to invest millions, if not over a billion, in a private equity fund. Showing his ire on the campaign trail, Biden won’t be able to ignore completely answering questions about his intervention in Ukraine and his son’s lucrative gig on Burisma Holdingss’ board. Pelosi acquiesced to her party’s left wing, led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), agreeing to impeachment hearings. When all Democrats had was the Muller Report, Nancy was reluctant to move ahead with impeachment based on a flimsy obstruction case against Trump.
Once Pelosi had Trump admitting to asking Zelensky to investigate the Bidens, she concluded that he engaged in impeachable offenses. Trump said he did nothing improper asking a foreign head-of-state whether a U.S. citizen engaged in corruption, especially when the Ukraine asks for millions in foreign and military aid. Calling Biden “stone-cold crooked,” Trump hits back at the media that accused him of breaching his oath of office and the Constitution. Instead of telling Trump how he won’t let him “destroy his family,” Joe should explain how Hunter got appointed to a $50,000 a month job on a foreign energy board. Explaining why he intervened with Poroshenko to get Shokin fired, as he told the Council on Foreign Relations in 2016, would also help Biden explain his reasoning. Biden called Trump a “bully,” accusing him of an “abuse of power” for taking to the Ukrainian president.
Biden doesn’t seem any closer in explaining his and his son’s role in the Ukraine that landed Hunter his $50,0000 a month job. Acting indignant on the campaign trail, Biden doesn’t answer any questions regarding his actions while Vice President in 2016 or his son’s cushy job on Burisma’s board. Turning tables like Trump has done is fair play in politics where’s there’s no holds barred. “He did it because, like every bully in history—he’s afraid,” Biden said, explaining why Trump brought up his good name in Ukraine’s corruption. When you consider Democrats blistering attacks on Trump, now proceeding with impeachment, what did they expect Trump to do, nothing? “He’s afraid of just how badly I would beat him in next November,” Joe said, not answering any questions about he or his son in Ukraine. Trump raised Bidens’ issue to let Democrats know he’s going to fight back.
