Taylor’s testimony on Tuesday was so effective that Trump had virtually no response to it after it leaked.
All he could muster was a tweet quoting a Republican congressman who went on Fox News to claim that there couldn’t have been a quid pro quo because the Ukrainian government didn’t know that U.S. aid was being withheld.
That crackpot theory was about as persuasive as the statement that
Matthew Whitaker, the former interim Attorney General, made to Fox’s Laura Ingraham:
“Abuse of power is not a crime.”
On Wednesday, the Times reported that, as Giuliani and others urged Zelensky to investigate the Bidens, top officials in Ukraine were, in fact, well aware that the three hundred and ninety-one million dollars in military assistance was being held back by the White House.
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