Republicans Repeatedly Attacked Ukraine To Set Up Capitulation to Russia

[TomCADem]

It is not just Trump and Tucker Carlson. Remember how until recently, Republicans such as Jim Jordan and Mike Pompeo were attacking Ukraine and seeking to justify the delay of aid to Ukraine? The reason was to justify supporting Putin's efforts to annex Ukraine. Heck, Mike Pompeo was the Secretary of State. If Pompeo is cheerleading for Putin now, you can only imagine what he was planning back when he was the Secretary of State.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/jim-jordan-tries-to-recast-trump-as-the-hero-of-the-ukraine-scandal

Here’s what happened, according to Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, in the fifty-five days this summer when a hold was placed on U.S. military aid to Ukraine. The country had a new President, Volodymyr Zelensky, who had taken office in May, and President Donald Trump had reason to be suspicious of him. “We’re talking Ukraine . . . one of the three most corrupt countries on the planet,” Jordan said. “Corruption is not just prevalent in Ukraine—it’s the system!” Jordan, who was addressing the witnesses on the first day of public impeachment hearings before the House Intelligence Committee, shouted out those lines, as he often does; the Republican leadership added him to the committee just last week, to make full use of his volubility and his loyalty to Trump. “So our President said, ‘Time out! Time out! Let’s check out this new guy! Let’s see if Zelensky is the real deal,’ ” Jordan continued, waving his arms. (He is a former wrestling coach, and never wears a jacket.) “Let’s see if he’s legitimate.”

Why this crucible of legitimacy should have required Trump to try to extract a commitment from Zelensky to specifically investigate the business activities of former Vice-President Biden’s family and the President’s own theories about Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election is—as the witnesses William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, and George Kent, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, indicated—a mystery. And yet Jordan presented the hold on aid as an example of the President’s greatness and even, somehow, of his discretion. Jordan swept aside all the testimony from the transcripts of the closed hearings that have been released so far, and also that which was presented on Wednesday regarding conversations and anxious WhatsApp messages among diplomats about Trump’s demands. Jordan claimed that in “not one” of the interactions between American and Ukrainian officials was military aid linked to an investigation of Burisma, the company that paid Hunter Biden, the Vice-President’s son, to sit on its board. (That assertion, in fact, is belied by the reconstructed transcript of a call between Trump and Zelensky on July 25th, in which Trump mentions the Bidens and a discredited theory involving the Democratic National Committee’s servers.) Instead, Jordan said, “Guess what did happen in those fifty-five days?”

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1. Every Republican

must be tied to Trump - Putin. Let none of them off the hook. Call them Comrade.