Opinion

On abuses of power

Posted October 30, 2020 1:00 am

Recently Sean Casten stated that one of the reasons he voted to impeach President Trump was because of "These abuses of power are exactly what President Donald Trump committed when he withheld military aid to an ally to pressure a foreign government to investigate a political rival ...".

President Donald Trump did not withhold any aid. When Joe Biden was vice president, Ukraine was investigating his son, Hunter Biden and Burisma, Joe threatened to withhold aid and, this from The Hill website: "I said, 'You're not getting the billion.' I'm going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: 'I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money,'" Biden recalled telling Poroshenko. "Well, (expletive), he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time," Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations event, insisting that President Obama was in on the threat.

Will Casten impeach Biden if Biden is elected president?

Denis M. Bohm

Mettawa

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