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i would like to briefly talk about those excuses. the first excuse offered by president trump is that the aid was ultimately released and president trump met with mr. zelensky. we heard it today. the challenge with that, though, as an excuse, is the aid was only released after president trump got caught doing the scheme. on september 9th, the committees of this house started their investigation and announced they were investigating his conduct with regard to ukraine. two days later was when he released the aid. there also was a news article which we ll talk about in a moment by the washington post on september 5th, exposing his scheme. and it was only after that that he met with president zelensky not in the white house but in new york. another excuse offered. the president was motivated by general corruption concerns. and again, the evidence shows that is not true that that s what caused him to with hold the aid. president zelensky, in fact, was elected on an anti-corruption platfor
those excuses. the first excuse offered by president trump is that the aid was ultimately released and president trump met with mr. zelensky. we heard it today. the challenge with that, though, as an excuse is the aid was only released after president trump got caught doing the scheme. on september 9th the committees of this house started their investigation and announced they were investigating his conduct with regard to ukraine. two days later is when he released the aid. he also there was a news article that we ll talk about in a moment by the washington post on september 5th exposing his scheme. it was only after that that he met with president zelensky not in the white house but in new york. another excuse offered. the president was motivated by general corruption concerns. and again the evidence shows that is not true that that s what caused him to withhold the aid. president zelensky was elected on an anti-corruption platform and a reform candidate.
flaf platform. he was a reform candidate. his own people told him he s doing it the right way. they urged him to be supportive. on his call with president zelensky on july 25th, president trump ignored the talking points that were prepared to talk about corruption. he only wanted to talk about two things, the two investigations that helped him politically. every intelligence committee unanimously supported releasing the aid to ukraine. they did a study and said release it. the white house never provided an explanation. the aid had already been approved, and it was not for any corruption issues that president trump withheld it. the next is ukraine was not pressured, and the argument about that is today they haven t said they were pressured. ukraine was pressured then and still is pressured. they are desperately in need of the united states support as they battle the threat of
said, hey, that was proof he d never been serious in the first place. it was just one big publicity stunt. and pat buchanan got 1% of the vote as the reform candidate. that s a tiny total but it nonetheless changed history when a poorly designed ballot in palm beach county, florida, led many al gore supporters to accidentally check off buchanan s name. even buchanan said the votes were not intended for him but they were counted for him. in a state that delivered the presidency to george w. bush by a grand total of 537 votes. and the bush presidency gave us the iraq war, gave us afghanistan, it ended with the financial crisis, economic meltdown. and it was some time around then in post-bush america that donald trump did something very untrump like. according to reporting from tim alberta in politico, trump picked up the phone, called pat buchanan, and apologized for all the hurtful things he said.