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but that's just a distraction.
THE question on impeachment is whether Trump should be president.
Trying to turn it into an investigation of his political opponents is what got him in trouble in the first place.
Then he is playing with fire.
Asking for favors is not a bad thing. I'm sure you ask people for favors every day, Keith.
There are favors and there are unlawful favors. Don-King-Con asked for the latter.
And the law is quite clear:
§30121. Contributions and donations by foreign nationals
(a) Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for-
(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make-
(A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;
(B) a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or
(C) an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 30104(f)(3) of this title); or
(2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national.
Asking a foreign head of state to use their government to investigate a political rival is a solicitation.
Dirt on a political rival is a thing of value.
The President of Ukraine made an express promise to do Trump this "favor." Roll tape...
Trump: "The other thing, 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 so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me."
Zelenskyy: "...the next prosecutor general will be 100% my person, my candidate, who will be approved, by the parliament and will start as a new prosecutor in September. He or she will look into the situation, specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue."
There it is, right in the transcript released by the White House. A conversation that meets the criteria for a violation of federal election law. A felony violation, no less. Now, are we going to bust the President of Ukraine? No, but we've got the President of the United States dead to rights.