.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump’s obsession with Clinton emails isn’t just about Clinton emails.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 9/25/19, 9:18 PM ET Trump pressed Ukraine on theory to clear Russia in 2016 hack Rachel Maddow points out that the Donald Trump Ukraine call notes reveal that beyond asking Ukraine for dirt on Joe Biden, Trump also pressed for information related to a conspiracy theory designed to exonerate Russia for its role in hacking the DNC in share tweet email save Embed Donald Trump sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday in New York, and about...
But in context, there’s a reason the email-related question came up in the first place, and it stems from the suddenly infamous phone call between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart two months ago. After Zelenskiy explained to the American leader how eager Ukraine is to get more military assistance from the United States, Trump quickly shifted to what he expected from Zelenskiy.
Obviously, the word “though” was doing a lot of work in that sentence, and it bolsters allegations that the presidents’ conversation included a not-so-subtle quid pro quo.
From Trump’s perspective, if there’s evidence that the conspiracy theory is true – there isn’t, of course, because it’s ridiculous, but if he could uncover such evidence – then he could claim that the United States’ intelligence agencies were wrong; Vladimir Putin is right; and Russia didn’t really attack the 2016 elections after all.
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