Russia's invasion puts a new light on Trump's Ukraine pressure campaign

[AZProgressive]

Then-President Donald Trump was withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for Ukraine's defense as he was asking its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to investigate Trump's potential 2020 rival, Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden.

That 2019 call got Trump impeached. But the Senate acquitted him, and he dismissed the controversy as a politically motivated hit job — and his base went along.

Now, with Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine and Zelenskyy being hailed around the world as a hero for his resolve, that call is put into a very different light.

"There's just a lot of evidence that Trump was wrong on this issue [Ukraine] and that in many ways, we undermined the NATO alliance and we undermined Zelenskyy's position in the eyes of Russia and Putin," said Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist and former senior adviser on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085023029/russias-invasion-puts-a-new-light-on-trumps-ukraine-pressure-campaign?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

[tableturner]

1. K and R......

[BigmanPigman]

2. We have to hang this around every single GQP members' fat necks.

And we need to do it now, leading up to the midterms. We can NOT allow them to get away with their role in this catastrophe which they enabled and would do again, given the opportunity.

[PurgedVoter]

3. And the evidence was right there for everyone to see.

How many times will the press turn their eyes away and let a person who has never, ever told the truth, keep on doing disgusting things and lying. They still get interviews despite being obvious frauds with no ethic.

The evidence was insanely strong before Trump was elected, that he was a racist thief who's lies were obvious. Yet he was voted in by idiots, bigots and the weak minded. Never forget how obvious this was at the very beginning. When they say about Trump, "as it turns out--" Think, this person does not have rudimentary observational skills.

[Scrivener7]

4. Right? This isn't new light. This light was always there for anyone who cared to see it.