Trump, Joe Biden and Ukrainegate

The Ukrainegate story is marching on but Donald Trump seems quite relaxed about it. Why? Because he thinks Joe Biden, chief rival for the presidency in 2020, has something to hide which he doesn't want investigated. Trump says Biden, when he was vice president, tried to get the Ukrainian government to sack a prosecutor who was investigating corruption in a gas company where son Hunter Biden was a director OR face having $1 billion in aid withheld by the US. Oops that would be naughty if true. Sounds like blackmail. But the fact that Trump thinks it's true doesn't necessarily mean there's a cast-iron case against Joe Biden. Just like there doesn't seem to be a cast-iron case against Trump for being involved in similar skulduggery with the Ukrainian president - ringing President Zelensky eight times and asking him to uncover dirt on Hunter Biden re gas company corruption story. Trump is so relaxed about his side of the Ukrainegate scandal that he has even suggested publishing the transcript of his phone conversations with Zelensky. Ukraine has apparently referred to these conversations as "nice". Did Trump mention Joe and/or Hunter Biden in these calls? Yes he did. But Trump says he wasn't trying to harm Biden, just felt the need to have a chat to Zelensky about stuff, including Biden. Who knows what all that means. But could Joe Biden have threatened Ukraine to withhold aid unless this prosecutor was fired? I think we, well the American people, need to know. Mike Pompeo, secretary of state, and Steven Mnuchin, treasury secretary, have both come out and said publishing private conversations between world leaders would set a bad precedent and was not a good idea. But if Trump has raised the possibility, perhaps we will get to read the fascinating sort of things the president of the United States and the president of Ukraine chat about. Possibly just as interesting would be to see the transcript of the phone call between Joe Biden and his Ukrainian counterpart. And, by the way, did Obama know about it? Did he approve? Or did Biden keep it all quiet? Indeed, did it happen at all? Trump says it did so he must have seen something or heard something. Was there a worried intelligence service officer listening in to the Biden call and, if so, did he make representations to the inspector-general of the intelligence community? Like in the present situation with Trump and Zelensky. There is a lot more to be uncovered here. A Deep Throat may need emerge!