07-24-2022, 08:06 PM
(07-24-2022, 07:52 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Have no issues, huh? Yeah, I would think again. You're not talking to someone ignorant to this sort of thing. I have a long history of denouncing our friendly relationships with places like, for example, Saudi Arabia. You seem to be missing that the aid was withheld illegally because Congress had already voted to send the aid on so Trump had no discretion over it. On top of that, he was extorting the Ukrainian president for his own personal gains. That is corruption and should be denounced by everyone. Just as any instance of corruption should be. I am 100% anti-corruption and if any elected official or bureaucrat is caught acting in a corrupt manner, I will want them out of office/fired/in prison.
None of this goes to the biggest problem with your post, though, and that is the attempt to draw false equivalencies. Has every administration had shady dealings? 100%. But none of them were to the extreme of the Trump administration. None of them. There have been worse presidents in my book, but Trump has been the most corrupt.
watergate, iran contra, fast and furious, clinton being a sexual predator, invading iraq. all these things are far worse than trump with foreign aid. but yet people want trump is held to a special standard where he's somehow more corrupt than all those guys.
