The texts undermine all of Trump’s claims
the ambassador to Ukraine who abruptly resigned last week after being enveloped in the scandal, make clear that officials in both the United States and Ukraine were aware that Zelensky would not be invited to the White House unless he agreed to investigate the Bidens and CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity company that’s been the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories that former Homeland Security Secretary.
“Assuming President Z convinces trump he will investigate / ‘get to the bottom of what happened’ in 2016, we will nail down date for a visit to Washington,” Volker wrote to a top Zelensky aide in one text. The apparently explicit quid pro quo not only made Taylor uncomfortable at one point; it also concerned Ukranian officials, who were said to have noted to their American counterparts that Zelensky was “sensitive about Ukraine being taken seriously, not merely as an instrument in Washington domestic, reelection politics.” The decision by Trump to withhold security assistance to Ukraine also unnerved officials in both countries.
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