Finally the Process to Impeach President Donald Trump begins
The Russia Hawk in the White House
Why do you suppose some babblers are apoplectic at Trump for his alleged attempts to expose Crooked Joe Biden and his coke-head son Hunter's 50k a month job for Burisma and other outrageously venal and corrupt Democratic Party practices in Ukraine, yet think we haven't noticed Canada's own corrupt practices there by comparison seem to get virtually a free pass on this 'progressive board'? Even while our politicians glad-hand people like social Nationalist Andrey Parubiy and NDP members are instructed by Chrystia Freeland how exactly to voice the fascist salute 'Slava Ukraini', even while we continue to fund, arm and train Nazis like the Azov etc etc? Don't you think it's about time you paid some attention to your own country's dirty linen instead of your mindless and embarrassing reactionary lock-step march with whatever the WaPo, NYT or Guardian says?
'Clear the Kikes From Ukraine': Who Will Confront Kiev's Spiraling Anti-Semitism Problem?
https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/117804908588824166
NDPP on Fox?
https://mobile.twitter.com/NicholsUprising/status/1178651041925128193
"Am I the only one who finds it actually an intensely interesting question why Ukraine's largest natural gas producer paid Joe Biden's son - who has no expertise in Ukraine or gas - $60,000 a month as an absentee non-exect director...? But what fascinates me is the way the BBC, Guardian etc manage to report on the Trump angle and totally omit the obvious Biden corruption and its wider ramifications."
https://twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1177272008507363328
"Ollie Richardson answers your questions in his thread on Joe Biden and Ukraine..."
https://twitter.com/Maraki378/status/1177312486380515328
"Thread - a reminder of what Joe Biden did during the West's 2014 coup in Ukraine..."
- more Russian talking points?
Jeffress is a real Jesus follower, isn't he!
Trump attacks whistleblower and Schiff, tweets impeachment would cause 'Civil War-like fracture'
Pastor Robert Jeffress said he is "afraid" impeachment "will cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation from which this country will never heal."
Jeff Flake tells GOP not to support Trump in 2020: It's 'time to risk your careers in favor of your principles'
Trump allies concerned he doesn't understand gravity of impeachment fight
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/trump-giuliani-impeachment-strategy/index.html
Republicans seek evidence to impeach President Hillary Clinton.
For many reasons, Schiff needs to get on with it.
Imagining President Pence
If Donald Trump doesn’t finish his term, what kind of leader would his successor be?
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/imagining-president-pence/
Donald Trump's 'treason' attack on Adam Schiff is completely misleading
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/donald-trump-adam-schiff/index.html
Zuesse: Here is the Dirt Wanted From Zelensky About the Bidens and Why Zelensky Doesn't Want to Give it to Him - Hidden By Rampant Falsehoods in the Press.
https://washingtonsblog.com/2019/09/here-is-the-dirt-trump-wanted-from-z...
"In order to understand why Ukraine's President Volodmyr Zelensky doesn't want the dirt about Joe Biden to become public, one needs to know that Hunter Biden's boss and benefactor at Burisma Holdings, was, at least partly, Zelensky's boss and benefactor until Zelensky became Ukraine's president, and that revealing this would open up a can of worms which could place that former boss and benefactor of both men into prison at lots of places.
First, the falsehoods in the press have to be documented here, since this article will go up against virtually all US and allied reports and their events. And in order to do such a thing, the bona fides of my main sources need to be presented..."
Ukraine & Trump Impeachment Fiasco in a Nutshell...
https://twitter.com/bears_with/status/1178550122818527232
"The reason CIA, FBI and State are blowing the whistle on Trump, Zelensky and Kolomoisky is to stop Zelensky negotiating with the Kremlin to end the war in eastern Ukraine. Impeach Trump means continue the war against Putin in Ukraine, the US purpose of the 2014 Putsch..."
As always alas, cheerleading western imperialist aggression and war is what many Canadian 'progressives' do best.
"Am I the only one who finds it actually an intensely interesting question why Ukraine's largest natural gas producer paid Joe Biden's son - who has no expertise in Ukraine or gas - $60,000 a month as an absentee non-exect director...? But what fascinates me is the way the BBC, Guardian etc manage to report on the Trump angle and totally omit the obvious Biden corruption and its wider ramifications."
https://twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1177272008507363328
"Ollie Richardson answers your questions in his thread on Joe Biden and Ukraine..."
https://twitter.com/Maraki378/status/1177312486380515328
"Thread - a reminder of what Joe Biden did during the West's 2014 coup in Ukraine..."
You understand that it is illegal for Trump to use the office of the presidency to coerce other countries to attack his domestic political rivals? Why are you once again defending the indefensible Trump?
'Whistling in the Dark'
"Trump wants to meet the anonymous 'whistleblower' who caused his impeachment inquiry..."
[quote=JKR]
You understand that it is illegal for Trump to use the office of the presidency to coerce other countries to attack his domestic political rivals? Why are you once again defending the indefensible Trump?
[quote=NDPP]
It's not that I'm 'defending Trump', I see no evidence Trump coerced anyone. The transcript doesn't indicate coercion and the spurious Schiff fabrication was definitively denied by the Ukrainian president himself. Like the failed Russiagate conspiracy theory to which this one is linked, experience should teach us that despite what Dems and icm attempt to sell, ultimately there's no 'there-there' here. Why not impeach him on something real such as his and his family's outrageous dealings with Israel?
PS Why are you defending the outrageous and well documented corruption/coercion of Biden in Ukraine, threatening to withold a billion dollar US loan if a prosecutor investigating Bidens' crimes wasn't fired? That seems like an entirely legitimate inquiry for a US president ultimately in charge of conducting international relations to make, to me.
Putin is proud of you.
This is the way to do it - don't give them an inch!
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani subpoenaed by House committees
The Democratic chairmen of three House committees have issued subpoenas against one of the key figures in the Trump-Ukraine scandal
How many has NDPP shared with us - probably all of them, eh!
Impeachment: the five conspiracy theories behind Trump's Ukraine dilemma
- The US president is facing an impeachment inquiry directly related to his relentless pursuit of malicious untruths
Trump just wants to ensure Pence will pardon him, eh!
President Mike Pence? Trump's half-joking fear bursts into view
The unusual alliance between Trump and Pence gained a new layer of intrigue with the House's impeachment inquiry — and with an offhand remark from the president.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/30/trump-mike-pence-impeachment-007838
Zuesse: Here is the Dirt Wanted From Zelensky About the Bidens and Why Zelensky Doesn't Want to Give it to Him - Hidden By Rampant Falsehoods in the Press.
https://washingtonsblog.com/2019/09/here-is-the-dirt-trump-wanted-from-z...
"In order to understand why Ukraine's President Volodmyr Zelensky doesn't want the dirt about Joe Biden to become public, one needs to know that Hunter Biden's boss and benefactor at Burisma Holdings, was, at least partly, Zelensky's boss and benefactor until Zelensky became Ukraine's president, and that revealing this would open up a can of worms which could place that former boss and benefactor of both men into prison at lots of places.
First, the falsehoods in the press have to be documented here, since this article will go up against virtually all US and allied reports and their events. And in order to do such a thing, the bona fides of my main sources need to be presented..."
Ukraine & Trump Impeachment Fiasco in a Nutshell...
https://twitter.com/bears_with/status/1178550122818527232
"The reason CIA, FBI and State are blowing the whistle on Trump, Zelensky and Kolomoisky is to stop Zelensky negotiating with the Kremlin to end the war in eastern Ukraine. Impeach Trump means continue the war against Putin in Ukraine, the US purpose of the 2014 Putsch..."
As always alas, cheerleading western imperialist aggression and war is what many Canadian 'progressives' do best.
So yet again, the false choice: Trump or war
Trump staying in office benefits Russia.
The Nation: The Ukraine Scandal Might Be A Bad Gambit For Democrats
https://www.thenation.com/article/ukraine-scandal-democrats/
"...Democrat leaders and media pundits are convinced that Trump extorted by delaying military aid to compel an investigation into Biden. Their theory may prove correct, but the available evidence does not, as of now, make for a strong case.
- Trump had held up military aid to Ukraine by the time of his call with Zelensky, but if the public transcript is accurate, it did not come up during their converation.
- According to the New York Times, Zelensky's government did not learn that the military aid was frozen until more than one month later.
- Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, who met with Zelensky in early September, said that the Ukrainian president 'did not make any correlation between the aid that had been cut off and the requests he was getting from [Trump attorney Rudy] Giuliani.'
- It will be difficult to prove extortion if Trump's purported target was unaware.
- Moreover, Trump's foremost concern - and the object of the 'favor' he asks Zelenksy - is not Biden, but securing the Ukrainian president's assistance with Barr's review of the origins of the Russia investigation.
- Although he might be incoherent, Trump is within his rights to ask for Ukraine's cooperation..."
It’s not Democrat leaders, it’s Democratic leaders. Democrat as a proper noun is used by Republicans as a slur. The implication being that the party is not small d democratic. In addition, the action doesn’t have to rose to the level of extortion in order to be an impeachable offense. It’s not just this conversation that shows Trump tried to use a foreign country to smear a domestic political opponent. He sent Giuliani over there on more than one occasion to try to get Ukraine to go after Joe Biden.
And this is merely a continuation of Trump’s use of a foreign country to attack a political opponent. See 2016. This is his modus operandi.
What about 'New Democrat'? Is that perjorative? Perhaps it should be. You know the ones who invite 'Democratic' advisors to help them tie their political shoes - 'Learning From the Best', as NDP strategist and Hill and Knowlton (Iraq incubator hoax) PR honcho Brad Lavigne, said of the Obama campaign team before that president went on to become the 'deporter in chief' and war-starter par excellence (Libya, Ukraine, Syria etc). Or perhaps you don't remember? Never noticed?
That's the problem with an American 'Democratic' president. Democrats and their northern faux liberal imitators go deep into political sleep and no longer notice or criticize that half of the corrupt and malevolent US duopoly. At least with the hated Trump the sleepy heads pay some sort of attention to the evil actions of the evil American government, mostly ignored under the Drone King killer, surveillance czar, and best friend the banksters ever had - Obama.
Trump is hated, not only because he is hateful or the msm relentlessly drills it into us, but most of all, and especially Canuckleheads, because he is a true and accurate reflection of the real face of the American imperium, and Canadians need desperately to deny their complicity and servility to that regime. A 'nice' well spoken faux lib prez facilitates our pretending our 'rules-based-international-order' and 'feminist foreign policy' is something other than the deep, dark shameful collaboration and vassalage it really is. I have your number chumps.
'Ukrainian Oligarch Victor Pinchuk Paid $150 K to Trump For a 20 Minute Online Talk'
https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1178652442935865344
"Ukrainian oligarch Pinchuk has been paying western politicians to appear at his events for years. Tony Blair is another who has enjoyed his largesse. And he gave the Clintons at least $8.6 million between 2009-2013, when Hillary Clinton was US Secretary of State."
Victor Pinchuk, Businessman and Philanthropist...Image 14 of 38
https://pinchukfund.org/upload/iblock/c94/ILS_3434.jpg
https://pinchukfund.org/en/projects/17706/photo/411/
So how much did he pay for her or does she come free? Actually CF and VP go back years. So yes, let's delve down deeper into this dark and delightful Ukrainian can of worms that Dem strategists have decided to open. Who knows? It might not just be Trump or Biden that ends up going down.
Of course being a Russia-hating, American loving oligarch it's all A-Okay right chumps? So don't even bother sending it on to your friendly Canucklehead media or 'opposition' parties. It'll be OMERTA as like you they're all in on the same dirty game...
The point of all of these things is to absolve Russia from hacking the DNC in 2016.
The Bidens, Crowdstrike, this phone call—all part of the 4chan Cinematic Universe.
It isn't supposed to make sense. The entire point is to say the DNC framed Russia.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1178769241119608833?s=21
^ Thing is, if, as the anti-anti-Trump left believes, the Democrats are just making this all up to nail Russia for something...
...why would they go through the trouble of implicating Trump, their own partner(we are told) in the duopolisitic system, in the frame-up? It seems to me it would be a lot easier just to make something up about, say, Jill Stein getting payoffs from Russia, and investigate that. She'd have a lot fewer allies willing to defend her, and the Deep State could just as easily fabricate stuff about her as about Trump, since all the evidence is 100% fake anyway, right?
Bolton's WH-Bashing Private Debut Met With Elated Applause By Impeachment-Hungry #Resistance Media
"...John Bolton has finally spoken, and he put up a big warning sign about Trump and North Korea, gushed the Washington Post, which not-so-subtly hinted that Bolton could be an asset in the impeachment proceedings currently unfolding against his former boss. 'The big question with Bolton is how far he's willing to go - and whether he might be a key witness in the Democrats' impeachment inquiry over Ukraine,' the paper salivated. Even the New York Times, which just last year tore into 'Bolton's illegal war plan for North Korea' was suddenly all smiles.
The mainstream media's newfound affection for Bolton seems to be inspired not just by the usual reflexive embrace of fired administration officials, but by the realization that launching a successful impeachment inquiry on the back of the flimsy 'Ukrainegate' scandal will require a lot of insider assistance. MSNBC fleshed out this vision of Bolton as the great White Hope for impeachment, suggesting he could be the savior #The Resistance needs to get Republicans to turn on Trump and go along with the House Democrats' impeachment probe over Ukraine..."
Birds of a feather...I predict Bolton and the new CIA war-party Dems will get on famously together. And as stated, just like 'Russiagate', 'Ukrainegate', their latest 'flimsy' concoction to regain power, will require all the help it can get.
The Jimmy Dore Show
"Actual CIA whistleblower calls out Trump's 'Whistleblower' w/John Kiriakou."
'Take off the revolutionary's mask, and it's the CIA. Take off the terrorist's mask, and it's the CIA. Take off the newsman's mask, and it's the CIA. Take off the filmmaker's mask, and it's the CIA. Take off the whistleblower's mask, and it's the motherfucking CIA...And what kind of Bizarro-World do we live in when now, all of a sudden, overnight, it's the CIA that's the good guy?!
CNN Poll: Support for impeaching Trump rises among independents and Republicans
President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr. (Jabin Botsford/The Post)
Attorney General William P. Barr has traveled overseas to seek help with a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence agencies’ examination of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the matter.
- washington post
Giuliani Responds To House Democrats' Subpoena
[Trump's counsel] Rudy Giuliani reacts to congressional subpoena issued against him, Biden family dealings in Ukraine..."
Giuliani Responds To House Democrats' Subpoena
[Trump's counsel] Rudy Giuliani reacts to congressional subpoena issued against him, Biden family dealings in Ukraine..."
Hannity.
Australian government agreed to help Donald Trump investigate Mueller inquiry origins
President urged Scott Morrison to help gather information aimed at discrediting investigation into Russian interference in 2016 US election
Tue 1 Oct 2019 00.14 BSTFirst published on Mon 30 Sep 2019 22.42 BST
Mueller help: Scott Morrison and Donald Trump during the Australian prime minister’s visit to the US. Photograph: UPI/Barcroft Media
Donald Trump called Scott Morrison to ask for help in an investigation aimed at discrediting the Mueller inquiry, and Morrison agreed to assist.
The call, first reported by the New York Times but confirmed by the Australian government, happened shortly before the Australian prime minister flew to the US to visit Trump last week. White House sources also confirmed the report, the Australian ABC reported.
According to two officials with knowledge of the call, Trump asked Morrison to help the US attorney general, William Barr, find evidence for a review into the Mueller inquiry.
Morrison leaning into Trump might have a strange logic – but it's risky
Katharine Murphy
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The White House restricted access to the call’s transcript to a small group of the president’s aides, echoing a strategy used to conceal Trump’s July phone call with the Ukrainian president, the Times reported.
“The Australian government has always been ready to assist and cooperate with efforts that help shed further light on the matters under investigation,” the Australian government said in a statement. “The PM confirmed this readiness once again in conversation with the president.”
The dialogue between the Trump administration and the Morrison government has apparently been playing out for some months. On 25 May Trump blasted Australia before leaving on a trip to Japan, declaring he wanted Australia’s role in setting off the FBI inquiry into links between Russia and his election campaign examined by Barr. Trump said he hoped Barr would “look at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country.”
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Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, signalled the government was prepared to contribute to the Barr investigation. Payne said at the time Australia had not yet been asked but “we would, of course, consider such a request were it to be made”.
After Trump’s spray, Australia’s ambassador to the US, Joe Hockey, wrote to Barr, copying in the White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney. In a letter released on Tuesday, Hockey said: “The Australian government will use its best endeavours to support your efforts in this matter.
“While Australia’s former high commissioner to the United Kingdom, the Hon Alexander Downer, is no longer employed by the government, we stand ready to provide you with all the relevant information to support your inquiries.”
The Mueller inquiry looked at whether Trump worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election and delivered its report in April this year, but Mueller testified to Congress in July that its implications continued into the future.
The Mueller investigation began after Australia’s former foreign affairs minister, Downer, was allegedly told about the interference by George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign aide. Downer then informed the FBI.
According to Downer, Papadopoulos told him during “a night of heavy drinking” in May 2016 that Russia had obtained damaging information about Hillary Clinton from her emails.
Scott Morrison praises Donald Trump's political priorities
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The US president has described Barr’s review as “investigating the investigators”, and has accused former FBI officials of “treason”.
In May Payne told ABC Radio: “We don’t intend to engage in a public commentary that might entail any risk that we’re seen to prejudice the ongoing examination of these matters in the US.”
On Tuesday, Downer happened to be a guest on ABC’s Radio National breakfast program, discussing China, when the story broke. “I had no idea until this moment you were going to talk to me about this,” he said.
“I’ve got nothing to say about it beyond what I’ve ever said. I don’t know anything at all about conversations that Scott Morrison has had with Donald Trump. These days it’s not something I am privy to.
“I had a conversation with this guy [Papadopoulos], I passed on one element of the convo to the Americans. There is nothing more to it.”
Papadopoulos has denied Downer’s account of events. He welcomed the news that Australia would cooperate with the US.
“Bye, bye Downer,” he wrote on Twitter.
A spokeswoman for Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman, Penny Wong, said the prime minister needed to explain his actions. “It is being alleged that president Trump asked Scott Morrison for help in dealing with his political opponents.
“Scott Morrison must immediately come clean on what was discussed. Australians will wonder if any of the treatment he received from the US administration is related to these allegations.”
TRUMP: OF COURSE I’M TRYING TO UNMASK THE WHISTLEBLOWER!
The president had no problem effectively admitting on camera that he’s in the process of breaking the law.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/donald-trump-whistleblower-identity
Why it's so scary when Trump tweets about civil war
Naga Munchetty: BBC reverses decision to censure presenter
Director general Tony Hall emails staff to say he is overturning ruling over impartiality guidelines
Jim Waterson Media editor
Mon 30 Sep 2019 20.47 BSTFirst published on Mon 30 Sep 2019 19.28 BST
The U-turn followed several days in which the BBC management staunchly defended the original decision to sanction Naga Munchetty. Photograph: Mark Thomas/Rex/Shutterstock
The BBC has reversed its decision to sanction BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty for breaking impartiality guidelines with her comments about Donald Trump, following a staff uprising against the ruling and enormous political pressure.
'Enforced by older, white men': Munchetty case shines light on BBC's procedures
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Tony Hall, the BBC director general, emailed all staff on Monday to say he had reviewed the decision following internal and external protests. He said that, on reflection, the BBC’s complaints unit had made the wrong call when they ruled against Munchetty, one of the BBC’s most prominent minority ethnic journalists, for expressing a personal response to the US president’s statement in July that four American congresswomen of colour should “go home”.
Asked about Trump’s comments on BBC Breakfast, Munchetty said: “Every time I have been told, as a woman of colour, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism.”
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The U-turn over censuring her came after the Guardian obtained leaked internal correspondence casting doubts on public claims about the complaints process made by a senior BBC executive, as he attempted to explain why Munchetty’s co-host Dan Walker had escaped punishment, despite taking part in the same discussion.
The BBC’s editorial standards director, David Jordan, said Walker could not have been investigated because the single viewer complaint which led to the ruling did not mention the male presenter. “The simple fact is we haven’t had a complaint about Dan Walker’s role,” he said in one interview. “The complaint was about Naga Munchetty.”
However, copies of the viewer’s complaint leaked to the Guardian show that the original correspondence was explicitly about both Munchetty and Walker, leading to internal anger from BBC employees who demanded that women and minority ethnic journalists should be treated fairly by the corporation.
Trump team scrambles to formulate an impeachment plan
The president is approaching the early stages of impeachment much like everything else: letting his staff stake out positions and debate options, while he takes his own arguments to Twitter.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/30/donald-trump-impeachment-staff-012914
Trump may have lied to Mueller, House Democrats say
Dems believe the special counsel's grand-jury materials could aid their Ukraine investigation, according to a court filing.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/30/trump-mueller-house-democrats-lie-1520156
Changed his tune, eh. So much for his previous nonsense.
McConnell: Senate would have ‘no choice’ but to take up impeachment
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/30/mitch-mcconnell-trump-impeachment-senate-1519175
Intelligence community watchdog debunks whistleblower conspiracy pushed by Trump and other Republicans
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/icig-statement-whistleblower-complaint/index.html
The plot thickens!
Secretary of State Pompeo took part in Trump-Ukraine phone call at center of impeachment inquiry
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the July 25 phone call where President Donald Trump asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, a senior State Department official told NBC News.
The phone call and a related whistleblower complaint are now at the center of House Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
The 3 questions of impeachment
Giuliani Responds To House Democrats' Subpoena
[Trump's counsel] Rudy Giuliani reacts to congressional subpoena issued against him, Biden family dealings in Ukraine..."
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Giuliani Responds To House Democrats' Subpoena
[Trump's counsel] Rudy Giuliani reacts to congressional subpoena issued against him, Biden family dealings in Ukraine..."
Hannity.
Soros!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1178844237049270272
Hannity, Giuliani. Doesn’t matter. Anything for the cause.
It's not that I'm 'defending Trump', I see no evidence Trump coerced anyone. The transcript doesn't indicate coercion and the spurious Schiff fabrication was definitively denied by the Ukrainian president himself. Like the failed Russiagate conspiracy theory to which this one is linked, experience should teach us that despite what Dems and icm attempt to sell, ultimately there's no 'there-there' here. Why not impeach him on something real such as his and his family's outrageous dealings with Israel?
PS Why are you defending the outrageous and well documented corruption/coercion of Biden in Ukraine, threatening to withold a billion dollar US loan if a prosecutor investigating Bidens' crimes wasn't fired? That seems like an entirely legitimate inquiry for a US president ultimately in charge of conducting international relations to make, to me.
If Trump has evidence of criminality of Biden, his son, or anyone else, he should provide the evidence he has to the proper authority. But Trump has no such evidence. He simply wants to attack his domestic political opponents for partisan political purposes and he has no problem using the office of the presidency to go after his political opponents even by using foreign governments to do so. For this he should be jailed for a long time.
Exactly
Why are you defending the outrageous and well documented corruption/coercion of Biden in Ukraine, threatening to withold a billion dollar US loan if a prosecutor investigating Bidens' crimes wasn't fired? That seems like an entirely legitimate inquiry for a US president ultimately in charge of conducting international relations to make, to me.
He was threatening to withhold aid because the prosecutor wasn't being tough enough on corruption and because that's what he was instructed to do. In any case, the prosecutor wasn't investigating Hunter Biden at the time he made the threat.