Ukrainegate is building up into a huge scandal

Slowly slowly, every day, Ukrainegate is turning into a massive political scandal. Trump rang the UKrainian president on a number of occasions "asking" him to investigate Joe Biden's son and his business activities in UKraine, working for a gas company which is suspected of corruption. Now why on earth would Trump do that if he didn't want the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up some dirt on Biden's son to embarrass the leading contender for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. I can't think of any other reason. So Trump is scared of being beaten by him in 2020 and wants a foreign power to investigate a Biden family matter. Again, I can't think of any other reason for the president to make EIGHT phone calls to Zelenski, and then, to top it up, he instructs his charming personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to make similar representations. Giuliani, in a way that sums up his lawyer expertise, denied that he had done any such thing during a television interview and then a few minutes later blatantly said of course he had, as if that was the most natural thing to do. Well done Giuliani, another special confession in your long history of confessions that aren't supposed to be confessions but just sort of matter-of-fact truth-telling. The whole thing only came into the public domain when someone in the intelligence services was so worried about the implications of the Trump/Zelenski phone calls that he or she made a formal whistleblower complaint to the inspector general of the intelligence community, and then it was leaked to the press. Of course. Trump has dismissed the whole thing as if it was quite nornal for the president of the United States to badger a foreign leader to carry out a job for him that is aimed at knocking his main rival for the presidency in the next election. It is breathtaking and alarming and quite frightening and brings back the 2016 election like a train smashing into the buffers. Then it was Russiagate. Did Trump and his campaign team collude with the Russians to spread dirt about Hillary Clinton? Trump denied it and after a long investigation special counsel Robert Mueller agreed and exonerated him. But Russia was up to something, we know that. The Moscow intelligence boys were doing their best to interfere in the elections, apparently to make sure that Trump won, and not Hillary whom they hated. Ok, no Trump and co involvement, but fishy as hell. Now here we are approaching the next election, and both Trump and his personal lawyer have breasily rejected Ukraingate as fake news. Trump has refused to say what he talked to Zelensky about, but he did admonish reporters for not investigating corruption in UKraine. So there's a hinted link to the Biden junior gas company alleged corruption allegation. Then out comes dear old Giuliani who says yes yes yes he was looking into Biden junior's goings-on in Ukraine "but so what!" We are still in the early stages of Ukrainegate but the Democrats are getting very interested, there's yet more talk of impeachment, Hillary has tweeted astonishment, and some Republicans must be wondering what the hell is happening and should they any longer support Trump. But as I have written many times, this is all Washington drama. Outside the capital and Capitol, Trump base supporters probably don't even know where Ukraine is and certainly won't have heard of Zelensky but will think that if Joe Biden has a son working in this far-off country that apparently used to be part of the Soviet Union, there must be something dodgy and will stick to their beloved president even closer.