<< The reality is Democrats and Republicans both said Trump should be removed from office. Amash and Romney the first time, a dozen more the next.

Hmm. No. The reality is vast majority of Democrats and minimal amount of Republicans in House voted for Trump to be impeached ("House of Representatives "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment"[1] ) and Senate tries that impeachment ( same source ).

I will restate what I said in previous post. You are right on a technicality thanks to how politicians from both parties have used and perverted the word bipartisan. With that out of the way, I suppose we can argue over perception of this and I can tell you that I have yet to meet someone in person, who would argue with a straight face it was a not a partisan show.

<< This is a QAnon-tier conspiracy theory not based in fact, so yeah it seems like an unreasonable request.

Hmm. Well, I don't want to be too much of a pedant, but the facts are not known until a request for inquiry is made. Trump wasn't asking to determine whether Sailor Moon did 9/11. That would be crazy and/or unreasonable. Based on the standard placed by Biden ( see previous post ), this was not completely unreasonable ( though I can easily say questionable and maybe even dumb ).

Still, note that QAnon/conspiracy theory keywords mean nothing to me and do not present a valid argument; it is a lazy dismissal at best. Frankly, given the frenzy with which Democrats and affiliated media pursued this story made me think there was some fire behind the smoke. Now, I mostly dismiss it, but I don't know who knew what when.

[1]https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment.h...

> Trump wasn't asking to determine whether Sailor Moon did 9/11.

This is basically an equivalent request, yeah.

I do not believe it is, but I appreciate your response. It gives me some understanding of others' people perspectives.