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Trump Viewed Ukraine as Adversary, Not Ally
October 21, 2019 at 8:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/10/21/trump-viewed-ukraine-as-adversary-not-ally/
"SNIP.....
Associated Press: The president sees the Eastern European ally, not Russia, as responsible for the interference in the 2016 election that was investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Its a view denied by the intelligence community, at odds with U.S. foreign policy and dismissed by many of Trumps fellow Republicans. But Trumps belief suggests the extent to which his approach to Ukraine including his request, now central to impeachment, that the Ukraine president do him a favor and investigate Democrats was colored by a long-running, unproven conspiracy theory that has circulated online and in some corners of conservative media.
Said Trump in private: They tried to take me down.
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applegrove
(118,659 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)pretty simple, really.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)I wish people would quit it with the "babe in the woods'" schtick.