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Mitt Fighting Biden Probe Raises Eyebrows— Better the wolf be outside the tent so Mitt Romney losing in 2012 was a good thing after all.
Romney, whose latest job is senator from Utah, voted to convict President Trump, Feb. 5, of “abuse of power” which was one of the two counts against him in his impeachment trial. Romney would have removed Trump from the presidency and forever keep him from holding it again.
What was this abuse of power? President Trump asked Ukraine to investigate behavior by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter who held a high-paying do-nothing job on the board of the notoriously corrupt Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.
In his halo-polishing justification, Romney said
The President’s counsel noted that Vice President Biden appeared to have a conflict of interest when he undertook an effort to remove the Ukrainian Prosecutor General. If he knew of the exorbitant compensation his son was receiving from a company actually under investigation, the Vice President should have recused himself. While ignoring a conflict of interest is not a crime, it is surely very wrong.
With regards to Hunter Biden, taking excessive advantage of his father’s name is unsavory but also not a crime. Given that in neither the case of the father nor the son was any evidence presented by the President’s counsel that a crime had been committed, the President’s insistence that they be investigated by the Ukrainians is hard to explain other than as a political pursuit.
Actually, there is evidence that Biden did not ignore the conflict of interest and that would most certainly be illegal.
Biden and his defenders might argue that his actions were legitimate but any reasonable person would admit an investigation not merely warranted, but imperative for someone seeking the presidency.
If President Trump asked the Ukraine to falsify evidence or if he lied to obtain surveillance warrants, he should most certainly be impeached.
But he is not the one who did those things.
Why is Mitt Romney opposing an investigation into the Bidens? Why is Romney unconcerned about the investigation into Trump?