How did Rep. Jim Jordan come up with this theory, anyway?
.” After that phone call—in which Holmes directly heard Trump’s voice—Sondland, according to Holmes, explained that Trump didn’t “give a s–t about Ukraine” and just wanted Zelensky to help him by investigating Biden.
Given the obvious falsity of Jordan’s theory, the puzzle is how he came up with it. And the likely answer is that in a twisted way, he was trying to make sense of the actual sequence of events. It’s true that Trump blocked the aid in mid-July. It’s true that he called Ukraine corrupt. It’s true that the people Jordan depicts as Trump’s inspectors—Volker, Sondland, Johnson, and Bolton—urged Trump to release the money.
The text messages between Volker and Sondland show exactly what was going on. They were negotiating between Zelensky’s explicit commitments to reform, on the one hand, and Trump’s corrupt demands for a Biden investigation. Johnson, in a Sunday interview on
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