Ambitions. Our selfrespect. Our love of freedom and the rule of law. Our fierce constitutional patriotism. Now, it looked like President Trump might get might get away with his ukraine shakedown. After all, most americans didnt know anything about it. And the few who learned of it would be too afraid, too intimidated to cross the most powerful man on earth. Fr President Trump could rest easy. But if donald trump misjudged the american character, the framers of our constitution did not. I count 17 honorable Public Servants who came forward to testify over the intimidation and disparagement of the president. Is that right, mr. Goldman . Yes, there were 17. And i count a dozen Career State Department and National Security officials who served republican and democratic president s alike, over decades, who came to testify. In fact, four of President Trumps own National Security councils staffers, hill,
vindman, morrison, and mcguyer, came forward to report trumps scheme to nsc lawyers as so
including today, his country was still under attack by russia. still hadn t gotten a meeting at the whiteot house. and still needed aid from the united states, correct? that s right. and david holmes testified very, i think, persuasively about the importance of the white house meeting and of the relationship to ukraine evenan after the aid was lifted. including pointing to today when president putin and president zelensky met to discuss the war in the east. so the evidence is clear that president trump knew he had the power to force ukraine s hand and took s advantage of that desperation and abused the powers of his office by using our taxpayer dollars basically to get what he wanted, right? yes, and what s really important here and i think it has to be clarified is that the president. the evidenceha showed that the president directly said to ambassador sondland that there quid pro quo with the security assistance. and there s been some debate and some discussion about that. but