Former President Donald Trump withheld aid from the same nation that Republicans are accusing Joe Biden of slow-walking aid to. They don't see the parallels
Republicans clamoring to accuse President Joe Biden of slow-walking support for Ukraine don’t see a shred of comparison with Donald Trump’s impeachment for withholding aid from the very same nation.
“That was the biggest nothing-burger in the world that resulted in an impeachment by the House,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer “In many respects, it further validates Donald Trump’s position.” “That was all getting worked out. It would have been worked out quietly. They would have gotten [the aid],” said Sen. Ron Johnson , whose efforts to convince Trump to release the aid to Ukraine were documented as part of the impeachment trial. “It was the Democrats, the whistleblowers … who did that, and they dramatically harmed Ukraine as a result. That’s the real lesson here.”
The Democrats who led Trump’s first impeachment counter that Republicans’ revisionism ignores how Trump’s treatment of Ukraine may have emboldened Putin and led him to believe the West would fracture if he launched a full-scale invasion. Schiff put the finest possible point on Democrats’ position: GOP lawmakers criticizing Biden on Ukraine after absolving Trump were showing “utter hypocrisy,” he said, and “they have no standing to speak.”
Ohio Rep. Mike Turner, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said he believes neither of the last three presidential administrations delivered enough aid to Ukraine. He was one of the few Republicans who criticized Trump for the July 25, 2019, phone call during which the then-president pressed Zelenskyy to open the politically motivated investigations.
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