Political Quotes

“For the past 2 weeks, the President's defense team has spun bizarre legal arguments, conspiracy theories, and flatout lies that are unbecoming of the Office of the President of the United States. The country knows the facts. The President pursued his personal and political interests in a way that harmed the national security of America. He smeared our own Ambassador to the Ukraine. He promoted Kremlin propaganda on 2016 election interference. He sent his personal lawyer and willing members of his administration to trade official acts in exchange for fabricated dirt on a political rival. He stopped $391 million dollars in aid from going to the Ukraine, and when the Ukrainians made clear they were desperate for that aid to come through, he made his demands--come up with dirt on the Bidens, find or invent the server. Donald Trump's defense team has claimed the President wanted to fight corruption in Ukraine, but they have produced zero hard evidence to support that claim. Never in the history of our government has the President pursued a policy end without generating what usually is mountains of paper, and yet here there are no memos, no meeting records, no communiques on anticorruption--nothing. This defense is fiction. It is fiction because the President was not fighting corruption in Ukraine. He was causing it. We also know the President was telling the people around him to do what he wanted with respect to the Ukraine.…”