Porteroso said:
BearlySpeaking said:
Porteroso said:
Obama authorized investigations into Donald Trump's ties to Russia. There were banking connections, and allegations bring made. It was for the most part kept quiet until the 2016 election, because Obama did not want to influence it.
To blame the collusion hoax on Obama is a lazy swipe at Obama, nothing more. Pretty dumb.
You don't request a foreign nation to do an intelligence operation on an incoming president because there are "allegations." That is absolutely absurd.
If there is enough evidence to open a criminal investigation, then you assign it to the organization in our own country with jurisdiction. There was no credible evidence and no, even if there was credible evidence of a financial crime, a foreign intelligence agency does not have legal jurisdiction over an American citizen - especially a presidential candidate from the other party. There is no way to excuse this.
It is exactly what you do. You are blinded by bias, so you don't see that opening a criminal investigation into Trump would have really set people off and appeared to be a crime against democracy, oh wait.....
No, getting a foreign intelligence agency to conduct an operation against a presidential candidate from the other party over spurious financial allegations is absolutely not "exactly what you do." Incredible you think refraining from doing so is a "biased" position. Your view is clearly dependent on the party affiliation of the target, mine is not, so the bias is all yours.
And yes, traditionally our country has long steered away from opening criminal investigations into presidents and presidential candidates because of the political precedent it would set, until Obama and Biden decided to abandon that precedent. Your position is really strange because if you think opening a criminal investigation is "a crime against democracy," what in the world do you think colluding with a foreign intelligence agency to take down a presidential candidate from the opposing party is?