Thread by @bansisharma

1. WSJ: Hillary Clinton and Ukraine
A letter released Monday raises questions beyond the Bidens.
The Biden clan still needs to explain why a VP’s son was enjoying a $50,000/month gig for which his principal qualification appears to have been his last name. But Biden is not alone.

2. And President Donald Trump isn’t the only one who wants a fuller accounting of Ukraine’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In a letter released on Monday, Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson ask AG Barr if he’s trying to answer the lingering questions:

3. The senators aren’t relying on reports from conservative bloggers. The quotations come from a 2017 story in Politico, hardly a pro-Trump outfit. “Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton,” read the headline.

4. This Politico investigative report was published before Trump's inauguration.

"Ukrainian govt officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump. ... And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers."
politico.com/story/2017/01/…

5. The authors reported that Ukrainian government officials “helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers” with the goal of “advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia.”

6. With the benefit of hindsight and the results of the Mueller investigation, it’s now clear that there was no evidence of Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

7. What is not clear and what demands further investigation is how this baseless claim managed to consume the first two years of an American presidency.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr must get to the bottom of it. He owes it to the nation, Trump or no Trump.

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