Analysis: Most Republicans said they saw no evil and heard no evil — except when it came to fmr. VP Biden, who has been a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination since announcing his bid in April.
In their testimony, which reflected the evidence they gathered in their work for the Judiciary and Intelligence committees, they noted that Trump told Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and Special Representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker in a May 23 meeting in the Oval Office that they had to"talk to Rudy" on issues relating to Ukraine.
, Zelenskiy thanked Trump for U.S. support and Trump asked for a"favor," which Trump detailed as looking into the Bidens and"Crowdstrike."“I don’t think the president was requesting an investigation into Joe Biden," he said. Trump didn't let the funds go until after the White House was apprised of an intelligence community whistleblower report making its way through an inspector general's office and the Department of Justice, the House Appropriations Committee began pressing the White House for answers about why the money had been held back and three House chairmen had announced an investigation into the matter.
Berke countered that Trump ignored the larger corruption issues aides had asked him to raise in phone calls with Zelenskiy and instead focused only on"these two things" — the Crowdstrike and Biden matters.
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