Whistle-Blower’s Complaint Is Said to Involve Multiple Acts by Trump

[Belsnickel]

(09-23-2019, 09:49 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: As of last month, we do not know if Obama started the investigation or knew about it in its earliest stages. Lindsey Graham stated last month that he wants to subpoena Obama to find out when he was first told of the investigation. So at that level, it's significantly different, as far as we currently know.


There's also a difference between having your own intelligence agencies investigate an issue and asking another country to, as well as Trump allegedly suggesting money he was withholding would be released if the investigation occurred.

With regards to the charges, the FBI responded immediately to the release of hacked emails and a subsequent alert from the Austrian government that George Papadopoulos had told one of their officials that he was contacted by Russians about the emails well before their release, and Trump himself was never directly being investigated until he fired Comey a year later. In the Biden situation, it is being suggested without any evidence that Biden called for a Ukrainian prosecutor to be let go to prevent an investigation into a company his son worked for, though many leaders were calling for this guy to be let go because he tried to bribe companies by saying he wouldn't investigate them if they paid him. Also, the government still investigated the company for a year after the guy was let go. 

So one is a case of the FBI investigating a direct attack on the US election after receiving credible evidence from an ally while the other is a President allegedly bribing a country to investigate a baseless claim against a political opponent. 

Thanks for expounding. I was lazy and didn't want to type things up in more detail.