“Where were you on July 25th?” Rep. Jason Crow (D–Colo.) asked during Democrats’ opening arguments in President Donald Trump’s Senate trial. That’s the day that Trump, having held up congressionally authorized military assistance to Ukraine, made his notorious phone call asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a “favor”—to have the foreign leader announce probes into Trump’s political rivals. Also on July 25, impeachment manager Crow said, thousands of Ukrainians were risking life and limb in the fight against Russian aggression.
The natural conclusion, Crow claimed, is that Trump’s decision to withhold aid cost lives. Thirteen Ukrainians died during the lapse in …read more
Source:: Reason.com
