GOP staffers have floated a memo to House Republicans about how to best defend Trump during the public impeachment hearings. But it fails to address some of the damning allegations that Democrats will likely focus their questions on.
House Republicans have geared up for the first public impeachment hearings in the Ukraine scandal, set to take place this week, by having GOP staffers send a memo to lawmakers that outlines the strategy to best defend President Donald Trump.
"The Ukrainian government was not aware of a hold on U.S. security assistance at the time of the July 25 call." Laura Cooper, the top Pentagon official overseeing U.S.-Ukraine policy, concurred, based on conversations she had with Taylor and former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker."I knew from my Kurt Volker conversation, and also from sort of the alarm bells that were coming from Ambassador Taylor and his team, that there were Ukrainians who knew about this," she told lawmakers behind closed doors last month.
Also, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, the panel conducting the hearings, will likely focus on discrediting any witness without first-person information gathered from Trump himself. However, Taylor also said that, based on his conversations with Ukrainian officials,"I think it was becoming clear to the Ukrainians that in order to get this meeting that they wanted, they would have to commit to pursuing these investigations."
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