giuliani, and mr. trump's hand-picked representatives they continued thisve pressure campas to secure a public announcement of thebl investigations. now, according toti ambassador sondland and this is very important. president trump did not require that ukraine actually conduct the investigations as a prerequisite for thes white how meeting. instead the ukrainian government needed touk only publicly annoue the investigations. it is clear that the goal of not the investigations themselves os not any corruption that those investigations might have entailed but the political benefit that t president trump enjoy from an announcement of investigations into his 2020 political rival and against a unanimous assessment that showes he received foreign support in thefo 2016 election. for that reason the facts didn't actually matter to president trump because he only cared