Überragendes Closing Statement des Ausschussvorsitzenden Schiff zur gestrigen Impeachmentanhörung.
The withholding of military assistance to get these investigations, which you now have acknowledged Ambassador Volker was wrong for the president to request. The idea of withholding that military aid to get these political investigations should be anathema, repugnant to every American because it means the sacrifice not just of Ukrainian national security but American national security for the interests of the president personally and politically. My Republican colleagues all they seem to be upset with this is not that the president sought an investigation of his political rival, not that he withheld a White House meeting and $400 million in aid we all passed in a bipartisan basis to pressure Ukraine to do those investigations. Their objection is he got caught. Their objection is that someone blew the whistle, and they would like this whistleblower identified, and the president wants this whistleblower punished. That’s their objection. Not that the president engaged in this conduct, but that he got caught. Their defense is, well he ended up releasing the aid. Yes, after he got caught. That doesn’t make this any less odious."
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