It was Trump’s attempt to smear, with the accusation of corruption, former Vice President Joe Biden, who he feared would be his Democratic opponent in the 2020 election, that ultimately led to the impeachment inquiry. (And it was the very normal American system of marrying money and political power that made this move possible, when Biden’s son Hunter was hired as a highly paid consultant to a Ukrainian energy company.) Perhaps Trump intuited the potential of corruption-as-cudgel, or perhaps his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s Soviet-émigré associates suggested it. Either way, Trump was
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