Former Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert on impeachment inquiry against Pres. Trump: 'It is a bad day and a bad week for the president and for this country if he is asking for political dirt on an opponent.'
President Donald Trump's first Homeland Security and counterterrorism adviser, who resigned after a year in the office, said on"This Week With George Stephanopoulos" on Sunday that he is"deeply disturbed" and"frustrated" by the"entire mess" that began in July with Trump's phone call with a young Ukrainian president and suddenly this week sparked a firestorm of calls in Congress to impeach the president following the disclosure of an extraordinary...
"But it looks to me that the other matter, that's far from proven, was whether he was doing anything to abuse his power and withhold aid, in order to solicit such a thing," Bossert said, referring to a Ukrainian investigation into political rival Joe Biden and his family."That seems, I think, far from proven and it's going to be the focus -- I think -- of our Congress for the next year.
"The United States government reached its conclusion on attributing to Russia the DNC hack in 2016 before it even communicated it to the FBI. And long before the FBI ever knocked on the door at the DNC. So a server inside the DNC was not relevant to our determination to the attribution. It was made up front and beforehand. And so while servers can be important in some of the investigations that followed, it has nothing to do with the U.S. government attribution for the DNC hack.
"I didn't see, like others have seen, pressure in this call," Bossert said."I understand why people are interpreting it that way, [but] I've spent a lot of time with this president, and I can easily see other reasons for why this president might have delayed aide to Ukraine and those Javelin missiles. As you know President [Barack] Obama considered this deeply and decided not to provide lethal military support.
Bossert's comments come amid what is shaping up to be an exceptionally swift launch of a presidential impeachment inquiry.
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