For absolutely no identifiable reason at all, it's taken for granted by Democrats and liberals in the media that because we're only 14 months away from a presidential election, it was inappropriate for President Trump to ask the leader of Ukraine to look into potentially corrupt conduct by Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

That's quite a grace period for any high-profile Democrat who might be interested in enriching his or her family by pulling some strings within the federal government.

We still don't know if Joe Biden ever did anything like that, though it looks like he might have. What we do know, though, is that it was apparently an outrageous "abuse of power" for Trump to have asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into the possibility.

If Biden, as vice president, pressured Ukrainian officials in order to protect the financial interests of his son, it would have been a stunningly corrupt act in a country already drowning in corruption.

As part of a broader discussion on government corruption, Trump said on the call that "there's a lot of talk about Biden's son" and that "a lot of people want to find out about that." He said to Zelensky, according to the White House transcript of the call, that "whatever you can do with the [U.S.] attorney general would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it ... It sounds horrible to me."

And that's it. That's why House Democrats are now beginning the impeachment process. At no point in the call does Trump suggest a punishment or any consequence at all if Zelensky doesn't follow through on the request, nor does Trump bring up the subject about Biden more than the one time.

Yet the media have been hysterical. The New York Times' Peter Baker wrote that "the man who once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan without consequence seems to be testing whether he can do the political equivalent."

A Washington Post story this week said Trump's request on the call revealed a president "apparently willing and even eager to wield the vast powers of the United States to taint a political foe."

Lost in the dust is the fact that Biden is not even the nominee. Democrats haven't even begun their nomination contests. How long, exactly, does Biden, as a "political foe," retain immunity from scrutiny?

During her announcement about the launch of an official impeachment inquiry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday in dramatic fashion that "no one is above the law." Well, we're apparently suspending that rule for Biden — and just because we're only 14 months away from the next election.