The GOP's defense of Trump, Democrats' rebuttal and more from the impeachment inquiry | Analysis by CNN's zbyronwolf
The four basic points in the GOP argument:The argument is that Trump never explicitly tied funding to the investigations and that he didn't pressure Zelensky even though he repeatedly brought up investigations.Annotating the argumentRead MoreI spent Tuesday going line-by-line through Republicans' playbook. Read our annotated version here.
"Numerous Trump officials have testified that Giuliani was essentially running a shadow foreign policy toward Ukraine that many feared ran counter to US national security interests.Giuliani said he didn't talk to Trump much about Ukraine, but some of his advocacy for an investigation of the Bidens may have filtered to Trump via Sean Hannity's show.So ...
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