President Trump has every right to investigate Biden for corruption

The Hartford Courant continues to fail in presenting balanced reporting on matters concerning President Trump [Sept. 26, Nation “Whistleblower complaint alleges Trump sought election interference from Ukraine, then tried to cover it up”].

The latest edition of this concerns the telephone call between the presidents of the United States and Ukraine, in which it is alleged that President Trump pressured Ukrainian President Zelensky to dig up dirt on Joe Biden. What The Courant hasn’t presented is that it is the President’s duty, as the Commander in Chief, to seek truth and justice in matters regarding the nation. Additionally, in his phone call to Zelensky, Trump asked him to look into Ukrainian involvement in the Russian collusion narrative, a topic that has consumed and distracted the nation for the last two years.

On a second item of justice, Trump briefly asked Zelensky to look into the Joe Biden matter. Former Vice President Bides successfully threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to Ukraine if they did not fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin of Ukraine. He is on tape saying, “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.” At the time the prosecutor was investigating the gas company Burisma and Joe Biden’s son for corruption. Burisma paid Hunter Biden “as much as $50,000 per month,” as reported by the New York Times, to sit on their board when he had no expertise to do so. This potential selling of the vice presidential office to benefit his son was brought to light by the New York Times in 2015 [Dec. 8, 2015, ”Joe Biden, His Son and the Case Against a Ukrainian Oligarch”] as well as the Wall Street Journal [Dec. 7, 2015, “Ukrainians See Conflict in Biden’s Anticorruption Message”]. Running for president does not give Joe Biden immunity from investigation for corruption.

Lance Hart, Killingworth