on this record, there is a legitimate basis for president trump to have concern about hunter biden s role on burisma s board. the prospect that some senior ukranian officials worked against president trump in the run-up to the 2016 election draws an even more visceral reaction from most democrats. let me say very, very clearly that election interference is not binary. i m not saying that it was ukraine and not russia. i m saying that both countries can work to influence an election. a systemic coordinated russian interference effort does not mean that some ukranian officials some ukranian officials did not work to
the very values of the free world. one prominent ukranian parliamentarian explained that the majority of ukraine s political figures were on hillary clinton s side. a january 2017 politico article lays out in more detail efforts by the ukranian government officials to oppose president trump s candidacy. the article notes how ukraine worked to sabotage the trump campaign by publicly questioning his fitness for office. the article detailed how a woman named alexandra chalupa, an american contractor paid by the dnc and working for the dnc and clinton campaign traded information about the leads with the trump campaign in washington. chalupa explained how they worked directly with reporters to point them in the right direction. witnesses in the impeachment