The USA does not introduce more corruption through blackmail of an entire sovereign country in order to fight corruption.
We have witnessed yesterday while sifting through the Whistleblower Complaint exactly how the USA handles corruption. In the "fog of the new democracy" of Ukraine, there were two men, one a journalist and one the head of the Anti-Corruption Unit of Ukraine that found the "black ledger." Instead of taking this to the FBI, they published it so the American people could not be betrayed by the Trump Campaign. Yes?
The publication of the "black ledger" and the payments to Paul Manafort to the point of his resignation, who stated he was volunteering as the Campaign Manager, cost him his position with the Trump Campaign. It also stirred things up in Ukraine because the "fog of opportunists in this fledgling democracy" saw a way forward in calling the publication of the "black ledger" campaign interference that benefited the Clinton Campaign. Yes?
The USA didn't participate in the corruption when it became known Manafort was in bed with the Russian political party in Ukraine. The USA sent FBI agents to an investigation. That is how the USA handles a country mired in corruption. The USA rises to the power it has and provides a safe way forward in exposing the corruption and correcting the path while prosecuting those responsible for the corruption.
That is how the USA handles corruption. It exposes it, confronts it, investigates it and brings those causing the corruption to justice. To that end, Paul Manafort is now prisoned for many of his misdeeds.
The USA does not blackmail the new president of a fledgling democracy involved in a war with a country, namely Russia, that originally disarmed Ukraine's national military. The USA does not blackmail a new president of a fledgling democracy that is entangled in a war at its eastern border with a known enemy of the United States of America.
Now, I suppose if I were Trump and mistrusted every other person in the world except those that claim to be loyalists, then I suppose the only way forward is to blackmail a country's president dependent on military equipment from the USA to deal with whatever issue Trump finds important to him at the moment, be it a political campaign or drummed up corruption of a potential political opponent. Understand in that paradigm, Vladimir Putin is a trusted Trump loyalist.
The FACTS ARE PLAIN, regardless of the protracted see what sticks to the wall rantings outside the Oval Office of a president as dirty with corruption as anyone in his circle of influence, Trump blackmailed the president of Ukraine in a conversation that was definitely QUID PRO QUO. Trump has no defense and neither do many in his circle of influence.
End of discussion.
