Now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released, he calls the president , he actually sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said, im not ready to lift the aid. And they had this Senator Johnson. He writes a ten page letter, very detailed. And he gives some remarkable deta detail. And id like to read it, its on page 6. I add this is Senator Johnson speaking, i asked him whether there was some kind of arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed. And he started cursing. And he said no way, President Trump said no way, i would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reaction here was adamant, vehement an
private conversation was not enough, that s an indication he wanted t eed the political bene from them. the investigation could benefit the president politically, because the announcement alone could be twitter fodder between now and the next election to smear a political rival. that s consistent with the findings. you know, president nixon attempted to corrupt elections and his agents broke into democratic party headquarters to get a leg up on the election. and then he tried to cover it up just as we ve seen some obstruction here. even more concerning in this case president trump not only appears to have abused the power of his office to help his own re-election campaign, he used a foreign government to do his bidding and he used military aid as leverage to get the job done, now, this aid was approved by congress, it was appropriated on a bipartisan basis for ukraine