Biden urges impeachment, deflects from Ukraine dealings

Former Vice President Joe Biden appears to be trying to deflect attention from his alleged corruption in Ukraine by joining calls for impeachment. He announced on Tuesday that he’s in favor of impeaching President Trump if the president does not cooperate with Congress’ official inquiry.

Desperate Donald Trump knows that I can beat him, so now he’s enlisting the help of a foreign government — once again. It’s an abuse of power and violates every basic norm of the presidency.

We cannot give him four more years in the White House.https://t.co/cqhkBUviAs pic.twitter.com/vXmH3lTW6k
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 21, 2019

Despite his urgent calls for President Trump to be removed from office, Biden fell among the vocal majority of the Senate rejecting former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998. At that time, Biden supported the American people’s choice to elect Clinton into office and voiced caution when deciding to proceed with the hearing.
“The American people don’t think that they have made a mistake by electing Bill Clinton,” said Biden. “We in Congress had better be very careful before we upset their decision and make darn sure that we are able to convince them, if we decide to upset their decision, that our decision to impeach him was based upon principle and not politics.”
The former vice president’s new stance contrasts with what he said in a recent interview, where he claimed the Trump-Ukraine phone call transcript may reveal an impeachable offense. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky insisted that he wasn’t pressured during the call. He said that his administration started a corruption probe into Biden prior to his conversation with President Trump.
Biden is now accusing the president of violating his constitutional responsibility.
“The thing I learned — we learned, we all learned recently — is that statement, that the 2000-word statement released was that he talked about getting the Justice Department engaged in this,” he said. “I mean, it’s such a blatant abuse of power that it just — I don’t think it can stand.”
Biden claims he is a victim of abuse of power by President Trump and has not addressed his effort to blackmail Ukraine to dismiss its chief prosecutor. Whether the American people will support him in 2020 in light of yet another one of his flip-flops on hot topic issues remains to be seen.