We Need to See this to Know the Difference Between Right and Wrong

  The refrain is never-ending. When asked whether President Trump committed bribery, his defenders point to Joe Biden, and his openly saying he withheld money, saying it wasn't coming until a prosecutor was removed. He bragged about this bribe, no less.
   There are differences. Trump was asking someone to look up corruption on a political opponent. It amounted to a call for dirt on Biden. Senator Mitt Romney has pointed out that it wasn't exactly like there was anyone else Trump wanted investigated, just a political opponent. Of all the people associated with Burisma, Trump was only concerned about Hunter Biden, son of a political rival. If you are really concerned about justice, you seek to find it not just on political opponents.
   And, therein is the point Trump's supporters perhaps are not grasping. In his search for corruption, he was looking only for the corruption of a political opponent. He singled that out. That has every indicator that this was all about politics and about being re-elected and not really about seeking justice and ending corruption in Ukraine.
   Biden's bribery -- if you want to call it that -- called for getting rid of the investigator because he was not investigating enough. Trump supporters suggest it was because the investigator was looking into corruption at a company Hunter Biden worked for. No, not from all we know. Instead, Biden wanted the investigator fired not because he was looking into something, but because he wasn't looking into things -- he wasn't investigating.
   We can call a lot of things bribing. You offer your children candy if they will go to bed; That is a "bribe." People who can't make their way through semantics are going to be calling a lot of things bribery and not seeing why those things are any different than what President Trump did.
  The difference is that you are asking for something you shouldn't be asking for. You shouldn't be asking for dirt on a political opponent. You shouldn't be taking American tax dollars and telling the Ukrainians, I'm not going to give you this money unless you give me some dirt on one of my political enemies.
  Biden's bribe, on the other hand, was that he was going to hold back the money until they did something good, something that needed to be done for the betterment of humanity. There is a difference between leveraging money for that which is good and leveraging money for that which is not good. If we, as a society, are going to be able to tell the difference between right and wrong, we must be able to grasp this difference.








There are differences. Trump was asking someone to look up corruption on a political opponent. It amounted to a call to find dirt on Biden. Senator Mitt Romney has pointed out that it wasn't exactly like there was anyone else Trump was wanting investigated, just a political opponent. Of all the people associated with Burisma, Trump was only concerned about Hunter Biden, the son of a political rival. If you are really concerned about justice, you seek to find it not just on political opponents.