Lindsey Graham is doing what the Ukrainian government wouldn't
Republicans have been arguing that President Trump is innocent because Ukraine never announced the investigation of Joe Biden that Trump demanded, and because the military aid Trump suspended was eventually released. Democrats have countered that the corrupt deal only broke down because the president got caught: The whistleblower filed a complaint, Congress launched an investigation, and Trump realized the jig was up.
So Ukraine never announced that investigation. But if Ukraine won’t do it, then Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) will.
Graham, whose transformation from Trump critic to Trump bootlicker may be more embarrassing than that of any other Republican, has announced that, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he will launch an investigation into whether Biden, as vice president, somehow changed U.S. foreign policy to benefit his son Hunter, who served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. By god, Lindsey is going to get to the bottom of this.
Of course, by now, we know exactly what happened. Like the children of many a powerful person, Hunter Biden got a job he wasn’t qualified for. In his case, it was because Burisma wanted some high-profile names on its board, as many companies do. Biden’s effort to oust a Ukrainian prosecutor widely seen as corrupt was U.S. government policy, supported by our European allies and international organizations.
If anything, the departure of that prosecutor made an investigation of Burisma more, not less likely. There has been precisely zero evidence that Biden ever acted to help his son or Burisma.
But as Graham understands, launching an investigation of an opponent has political benefits as you approach an election — whether you find anything nefarious or not. If you find actual wrongdoing, that’s the best outcome. But even if you find nothing at all, just the fact of the investigation itself can achieve your political purpose.
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