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To: koan who wrote (1175338)	11/3/2019 3:48:53 PM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By bruwin Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571677

It's not in the Constitution that our Presidents can not use quid pro quo in negotiations with other countries. We do it all the time every day with every country we interact with. It's call statecraft. In business, we call it negotiations. Are you really that daft to think the US has never done this before? You know what the office of the President is supposed to do? What every President has promised to do? Faithfully execute the laws on the books. That means aggressively going after criminals, prosecuting them, and putting them in jail. Trump even campaigned on draining the swamp. Asking other countries to help us investigate a probable criminal like Biden is part of the Executive Branch's duties. Executive Branch powers (https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-executive-branch/): "The President is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress" "The Cabinet and independent federal agencies are responsible for the day-to-day enforcement and administration of federal laws." "Under Article II of the Constitution, the President is responsible for the execution and enforcement of the laws created by Congress. " Now here's a Biden quote from when he was Vice President. He was very clear in his quid pro quo. Fire the prosecutor or Ukraine doesn't get their money. The prosecutor was investigating his son. There are no coincidences (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamelder/joe-biden-ukraine-hunter): And then he told a story. Recounting a trip to Kyiv in late 2015, Biden described telling the then-president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, that he had to fire the prosecutor general or the US would not release $1 billion in loan guarantees. “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours,’” Biden told the crowd, taking a long look at his watch for effect. “‘If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch.” Here the audience laughed. “He got fired.”