Analysis: Witnesses take a toll on President Trump’s impeachment defenses
For Republicans, Vindman's willingness to contradict the president, the fact that he emigrated from Ukraine with his family as a toddler and the fact that Ukraine had sought to name him defense minister — an offer he had refused — were all reasons to question his loyalty to the United States. For Democrats, they were reasons to celebrate his patriotism.
Williams described the key July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as"unusual," adding that Trump's request for Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden"struck me as political in nature given that the former vice president is a political opponent of the president." "There's a way to thread that needle," he said he thought. But, after seeing the record of the president's July 25 call, he testified, he realized that"for them, it was synonymous."
Morrison also testified that he wanted to limit the number of people who had access to a record of Trump's call with Zelenskiy because he was was worried that if it leaked there would be political ramifications in the U.S. The fear: that it would threaten bipartisan support for Ukraine. At the time, though, Trump had frozen the money Congress had appropriated for Ukraine.
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