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Wednesday, November 06, 2019

Kurt Volker’s testimony gives key insight about why Trump was skeptical of Ukraine: ‘They tried to take me down’

Of all the things the national media will report on U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker’s summarized congressional testimony, here’s one detail likely to get buried: the reason for President Trump’s resentment toward Ukraine.

We’ve been led to believe that Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was about an “abuse of power” and Joe Biden and that’s all, folks, nothing more to see here. That’s false, there’s a lot to see, and one of the things Volker recollected about his conversations with Trump regarding Ukraine contains an important key.

Volker was asked during the closed-door testimony about a talk he had with Trump in May, during which Trump expressed “a deeply rooted distrust or dislike of the Ukrainians.” The congressperson who asked Volker about it (we don’t know who it is because the summary released Tuesday doesn’t say) suggested to Volker that Trump was bitter toward Ukraine “because of what he perceived to be their role in the 2016 election and/or the Paul Manaforte [sic] case.”

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are we ignoring the other two testimonies by the highest ambassadors in which they said it was a quid pro quo? I suppose it does not matter though because Trump supporters are blind to the fact that they are supporting a man over a constitution. If only you had the ability to view it from another perspective, such as, what if Obama had done this? You'd be crapping your camo pants

Anonymous said...

7:37 Trump supporters myself included are just blind to all the lefts bs attempts to unseat the 2016 election. You poor fools are still 3 years later trying to set this man up because your feelings are hurt. They have nothing on him. They will find nothing on him and he will be re-elected in 2020. You got a long 4 years coming to you buttercup.

Anonymous said...

Yep ,...Trump supporters are blind, deaf and but not dumb ( in the lack of speech category)