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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (230507)	3/24/2022 4:16:05 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 356004

>> As for my framework, influence peddling would be categorized as engagement in the public sphere. He would have crossed over into the public sphere by virtue of that act. So far as I know to date, his activities have been in the private domain. His holding a position on the Burisma board would be an example of where a private activity has been spun by critics as somehow public corruption. You may recall that Biden pressured Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor, one who was investigating Burisma (Hunter Biden's son's employer for a job he wasn't qualified for at a salary he could never have actually earned), after Burisma lobbied the Obama White House to end the investigation of it. Was that public or private?