Testimony in the 1st day of impeachment hearings suggested that President Trump directed a concerted effort to get Ukraine to investigate Democrats at the cost of America’s national security
Share to twitterWASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, William B. Taylor Jr. and DeputyAssistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs George P. Kent testify before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 13, 2019 in Washington, DC.
of that day “would have appealed only to those who enjoyed watching grass grow,” the first day of hearings also produced a bombshell revelation: a previously undisclosed phone call by E.U. Ambassador Sondland to President Trump from a cell-phone in a restaurant in Kyiv on July 26, the day after the notorious official telephone call between presidents Trump and Zelensky which had set off the impeachment inquiry.
Taylor explained how America’s efforts to support Ukraine’s defense of his country was a life and death struggle in which Ukrainian citizens were being killed every week. America’s support of those efforts was central. Refusal to give that support was both a setback to Ukraine and an encouragement of Russia to continue its expansion in violation of international norms.
Conaway, R-Texas, conduct a news conference in Capitol Visitor Center where Charles Kupperman, a deputy to John Bolton, did not show up for a deposition as part of the House's impeachment inquiry on Monday, October 28, 2019. Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, was inside the deposition reviewing transcripts at the time. · It didn’t happen.· Even if it happened, Trump wasn’t involved and wasn’t directing it.· There was no quid pro quo.
· President Trump has provided more assistance to Ukraine than President Obama; he shouldn’t be blamed, let alone impeached, for a brief pause in that assistance.· What happened was unusual, but not outlandish.· There were other things happening in Ukraine that are much worse.· The hearings are a partisan sham.· There is nothing to see here: it’s much fuss about nothing.
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