Kurt Volker’s testimony gives key insight about why Trump was skeptical of Ukraine: ‘They tried to take me down’ washex.am/2JUpJaQ
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 selective 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 Manafort case”
Volker affirmed that was part of it. “That was mentioned, but it was a long—longer statement that ‘they are all corrupt, they are all terrible people,’” Volker said, according to the testimony summary. He recalled Trump telling him, “I don’t want to spend any time with that.”
Then Volker stated that Trump added, “And they tried to take me down.”
That last part is precisely what everyone should be concerned about, and yet the national media spend almost no time investigating or talking about it.
That last part is precisely what everyone should be concerned about, and yet the national media spend almost no time investigating or talking about it.
Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to hurt Trump’s campaign.The whole plot behind the interference is deeply seedy, and the more the public gets to hear about it, the more we understand why Trump did what he did on the phone call that has led to a joke impeachment proceeding
