4 takeaways from Bill Taylor's huge opening statement

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We’ve been waiting weeks for the testimony of William B. Taylor Jr., the U.S. chargé d’affaires to Ukraine. And now we have it.

Taylor was last seen in those much-circulated text messages fretting to fellow diplomats Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker about the idea that U.S. military aid to Ukraine was being held up for political reasons. Of those three diplomats, he seemed to be the most alarmed about the possibility of a quid pro quo to benefit President Trump’s reelection campaign. The question was how much he knew.

Now we have answers — and he seems to know plenty. And in other instances in which his testimony isn’t firsthand, he helps outline a puzzle that others will likely be able to fill out.

Below, a few takeaways from his opening statement.

1. There was a quid pro quo on military aid, he believes

In the text messages described above, Taylor asked on Sept. 1 about hundreds of millions of dollars in withheld military aid: “Are we now saying that security assistance and WH meeting are conditioned on investigations?” And on Sept. 9, he worried that “it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”

In his opening statement, he says nothing has disavowed him of that belief.

“I believed that then, and I still believe that,” he says.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/4-takeaways-from-bill-taylors-huge-opening-statement/ar-AAJbbgR?li=BBnb7Kz

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1. Okay LenningradLindsey...

there's your queque... proof "outside the phone call".

You can't deny it after this.

None of us will be convinced of anything outside of the need for impeachment AND removal from office, immediately.