[picardythird]

It’s definitely unsavory, but absolutely nothing compared to the conflicts of interest under Trump, ironically even in Ukraine. Remember the withheld US money used to blackmail for political dirt?

[cm2187]

I'm not sure what this has to do with suppressing the laptop story

[jensensbutton]

You suggested it's the "mother of all conflicts of interest". It's clearly not.

[kolanos]

> It’s definitely unsavory, but absolutely nothing compared to the conflicts of interest under Trump, ironically even in Ukraine. Remember the withheld US money used to blackmail for political dirt?

Trump was asking the Ukrainian President to investigate whether Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire their top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, because he was actively investigating Hunter Biden's involvement in Burisma. Here's Joe Biden bragging about getting the prosecutor fired. Ironically in this video Biden openly admits to threatening to withhold aid if the prosecutor isn't fired. [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA--dj2-CY

[iso1631]

Whataboutism

[picardythird]

Calling it the "mother of all conflicts of interest" is inviting a direct comparison to other conflicts of interest, unless words have no meaning. I'm suggesting they do, and what OP said was absurd given the surrounding context, which I brought up.

[hoffs]

Op literally ended a statement with whatabautism in mind

[kolanos]

It is literally the same story with drastically different results for the participants given their relative actions.

The abuse of whataboutism has rendered it nonsense.

[syockit]

I remember that one. It's the one where Biden said "well, son of a bitch, he got fired", right? But what does that have to do with Trump?