Remember how the Trump-Ukraine saga began: with President Trump corruptly pressuring the Ukrainian government to announce a bogus investigation into former vice president Joe Biden, tainting one of Mr. Trump’s key political rivals with the appearance of scandal.
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After the scheme came to light, Ukraine’s leaders never made Mr. Trump’s desired announcement. But, with the dishonorable help of some Republican members of Congress, the president may yet achieve his original goal: sliming Mr. Biden with absolutely no basis in fact.
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“There is a mountain of evidence to suggest the Bidens’ behavior was harmful to the United States,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) tweeted last Wednesday.
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“Iowa caucuses are this next Monday evening,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said earlier last week, following a presentation from Mr. Trump’s lawyers. (Giving away the whole game, right there.)
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Mr. Graham’s behavior has been particularly shabby as he has threatened to misuse his chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the former vice president.
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“We’re not going to live in a world where only Republicans get looked at,” Graham said in December, indulging in a toxic (and unwarranted) display of grievance and implying that Mr. Biden’s demonstrably benign activities in Ukraine are equivalent to Mr. Trump’s corruption.
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But there is no moral equivalence. There is no reasonable case against Mr. Biden. The case against Mr. Trump, on the other hand, is just as definitive in the opposite direction.
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Mr. Trump had no good reason to press Ukraine to investigate Mr. Biden, an American citizen whom U.S. authorities were not themselves investigating. He did so anyway, to no conceivable benefit to the United States.
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That Mr. Graham would suggest that the two belong in the same universe shows that he is so poisoned by partisanship, he either does not understand or has lost all moral direction.
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Mr. Trump’s corrupt scheme to persuade the president of Ukraine to slander a political rival did not succeed. It is pathetic that U.S. senators would do the job instead.
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