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Senate Republicans Struggle To Answer For President Trump's Ukraine Mess
[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-ukraine-call-republicans_n_5d894d6ae4b0938b5932e6d2|
They need more facts to say whether it’s OK for the president to solicit dirt from a foreign government against his political opponent.
By Igor Bobic and Arthur Delaney
WASHINGTON ― Republican U.S. Senators didn’t have a lot of substantive things to say Monday about the news that President Donald Trump apparently asked the head of a foreign government to investigate one of his top 2020 rivals.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) sought to shape the party’s message early in the day when he lamented that Democrats had decided to “politicize” an allegation that the president may be corrupting U.S. foreign policy to help himself win an election ― itself a political act.
“Although we don’t know the substance of the allegations, there is speculation that it relates to our relationship with Ukraine,” McConnell said in a speech on the floor, without addressing Trump’s conduct laid out in the complaint.
Like McConnell, most GOP senators pointedly avoided criticizing Trump on Monday, maintaining they could not comment without more facts about the matter. Some downplayed the story entirely.
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By Igor Bobic and Arthur Delaney
WASHINGTON ― Republican U.S. Senators didn’t have a lot of substantive things to say Monday about the news that President Donald Trump apparently asked the head of a foreign government to investigate one of his top 2020 rivals.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) sought to shape the party’s message early in the day when he lamented that Democrats had decided to “politicize” an allegation that the president may be corrupting U.S. foreign policy to help himself win an election ― itself a political act.
“Although we don’t know the substance of the allegations, there is speculation that it relates to our relationship with Ukraine,” McConnell said in a speech on the floor, without addressing Trump’s conduct laid out in the complaint.
Like McConnell, most GOP senators pointedly avoided criticizing Trump on Monday, maintaining they could not comment without more facts about the matter. Some downplayed the story entirely.
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