Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
When it’s okay to withhold foreign aid to try to force a country to help Trump win an election I can’t imagine you really being bothered about pens. And you know Trump is toast when witnesses and documents happen.


That's a very distorted point of view of witholding economic activity with governments who murder U.S. citizens, murder thousands of their own citizens, as Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Russia, and China do. Sanctions are a way to non-lethally pressure them toward better behavior. In the case of Iran, that government has killed 1,500 of its own protesting citizens in the last month.
Obama sent his own presidential campaign advisors to Israel to aid Netanyahu's political opponent, directly interfering in a foreign election, but even so collossally failed. Netanyahu, for all the interference, was re-elected. He would have been justified to send Mossad to kill Obama.

You seem unaware that Obama and other past presidents used sanctions and other federal powers (less effectively) to force actions of nations worldwide as well. Was Obama, using the same economic sanctions tools, also trying "to force a country to help [Obama] win an election"?

No, because you would never hold your deceitful party to the same standard. Even when they deliver pallettes with billions in cash to an Iranian terrorist state, so they can use it to wage terrorism against the U.S., and never for a day stop chanting "death to America". Literally, the same day the cash was delivered!