Investigate Bidengate Before Impeachment

    
The Senate cannot determine if Donald Trump's investigation of Bidengate was appropriate without investigating Bidengate.  The basic facts  imply Joe  Biden's actions could have hampered the Obama administration’s effort to curb Ukraine’s endemic corruption.  After Vice President Joe Biden began his investigation the oil & gas company Burisma Holdings hired his son Hunter Biden.   Joe Biden admits he leveraged his White House position to have then Ukraine's leading prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired in March 2016, but claims it was because Shokin wasn’t doing enough.

People in the prosecutor's office might have felt Vice President Joe Biden didn’t want them to investigate  his son's employer or even that they should investigate rivals of  Burisma Holdings instead.

.Only a full investigation can determine if Vice President Joe Biden’s actions discouraged or encouraged corruption in Ukraine.