Democrats pressured Ukraine to reopen investigations

 Investigations into Paul Manafort had been halted
   (So did Democrats engage in election meddling?)

Sens. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Patrick Leahy of Vermont wrote in the letter to Yuriy Lutsenko that a recent New York Times report said his office "effectively froze investigations into four open cases in Ukraine in April, thereby eliminating scope for cooperation with the Mueller probe into related issues."

The May 4 letter requests that Lutsenko answer three questions, which include inquiries about whether the office did attempt to "restrict cooperation" with Mueller's probe and "if so, why?"

It also asks if anyone from the Trump administration encouraged "Ukrainian government or law enforcement officials not to cooperate" with Mueller's investigation, and if that probe was "raised in any way during discussions between your government and US officials, including around the meeting of Presidents Trump and Poroshenko in New York in 2017," a reference to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

So it's ridiculous to make a case that asking the Ukrainian government about Manafort investigations constitutes "election meddling" but that is basically how the same sort of actions are being labeled today as pertains to Trump.

In both cases (Hunter Biden, Paul Manafort) the Ukrainian Government had ended probes. In both cases, there were allegations that these probes were ended because of political pressure from an American administration with something to lose if those probes continued.

I am absolutely certain that this letter from these Democrats was framed at the time as the absolute correct and just thing to do. If there is the potential that our American executives pressured a foreign power to end a probe (for political purposes) then certainly others within the government are allowed to ask questions about it.

But as is pretty much always the case, the blatant hypocrisy of the Democrats and the liberal media rears it's ugly head. While it's perfectly reasonable (and probably deemed necessary) to question why probes into Manafort ended, the left see it as completely unreasonable (and potentially illegal) to question why probes into Hunter Biden ended.

Hypocrisy is the bedrock of liberalism. Without it, they hardly survive!