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were this reversed would we think that the GOP or Dems would take the others talking points that we see now? Id really like to see whether the GOP would try to soft peddle a presidents improprieties ?

Doing it with a foreign power is a felony violation of campaign laws and trump started the whole conspiracy himself.

Doing it with a foreign power is a violation of campaign laws and trump started the whole conspiracy himself.

Michael Pillsbury, President Donald Trump’s informal adviser on China, can’t seem to decide whether China gave him dirt on 2020 candidate Joe Biden’s son or not.

On Wednesday night, Pillsbury told Fox News Business host Lou Dobbs that he had brought up Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, to his Chinese associates during a trip to Beijing a week ago (the same week Trump openly asked China and Ukraine to investigate Biden).

However, Pillsbury said the Chinese refused to tell him anything.

“I’ve never seen them get so secretive in my entire life,” he told Dobbs.

But in an interview with the Financial Times several hours later, Pillsbury said the complete opposite.

“I got a quite a bit of background on Hunter Biden from the Chinese,” he bragged.

The adviser told the Financial Times that the information was related to the alleged $1.5 billion Hunter received from China, a baseless conspiracy theory Trump and his allies have been peddling over recent weeks.

On Thursday morning, Pillsbury was back to claiming he hadn’t gotten any information from the Chinese and bizarrely asserted he hadn’t given an interview to the Financial Times, even though the reporter has screenshots of their exchange.

“The Chinese did not give me any intelligence on Hunter Biden,” Pillsbury said during an interview on C-Span. “I don’t know where the report came from.”

Nonsense. Just doing what the constitution says to do for lawbreakers.

The punishment for Trump rigging the election should be decided by the election he's rigging.

The author of the Steele dossier was written by an ex British spy which started with the republican campaign and Hillary merely continued financing.

On the other hand, Trump used carrots such a White House visit and Military aid to newly elected President of Ukraine, a foreign government which makes illegal.

Which is why two associates of Giuliani's were arrested on campaign violations for helping Giuliani dig up dirt on Biden who is a political opponent for Giuliani's "client". which is Trump.

So when do we haul Hillary off to jail?

The notion that "investigating the Bidens" counts as a campaign contribution is quite a stretch.

I thought they were arrested for trying to funnel foreign money into US campaigns.

Since late 2018, Mr. Fruman and Mr. Parnas have introduced Mr. Giuliani to several current and former senior Ukrainian prosecutors to discuss the Biden case.

Mr. Parnas in July accompanied Mr. Giuliani to a breakfast meeting with Kurt Volker, then the U.S. special representative for Ukraine negotiations. “We had a long conversation about Ukraine,” Mr. Volker wrote in his testimony to House committees last week. During that breakfast, Mr. Giuliani mentioned the investigations he was pursuing into Mr. Biden and 2016 election interference.

House committees last month sought documents and depositions from Messrs. Parnas and Fruman related to their interactions with the Trump administration, Mr. Giuliani and Ukrainian officials. The initial notice from the committees set the dates for their depositions as Thursday and Friday.

The indictment references a congressman, identifiable as Mr. Sessions, whose assistance Mr. Parnas sought in “causing the U.S. government to remove or recall the then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.” The indictment says those efforts were conducted “at least in part, at the request of one or more Ukrainian government officials.” Mr. Sessions didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Messrs. Parnas and Fruman told the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project in July that they told Mr. Sessions last year that Ms. Yovanovitch was “bad-mouthing” the president. They later donated to his campaign.

There is a difference in a person in another country and a leader of a country.

The legal term is "anything of value." You can't get more of value than getting dirt on a political opponent.

And you are saying getting damaging information on a political opponent in an upcoming Presidential election is not of value? Of less value than a watch? You're fooling yourself.