Opinion: The GOP's defense of Trump actually makes him look worse (via latimesopinion)
Republicans have gotten used to defending President Trump’s statements or tweets by saying he meant something else. He was speaking in a form of verbal shorthand. There’s an important backstory. If you saw the big picture, you’d get it.
Trump’s now-infamous July 25 call with new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has presented the ultimate challenge, becauseare damning on their face. After telling Zelensky how reliant Ukraine is on help from the United States, and knowing that he’d put U.S.
Undaunted, congressional Republicans have put forward a backstory designed to turn these seemingly venal demands into a noble defense of taxpayer dollars. According to this argument, Trump had a longstanding concern about corruption in Ukraine. He wanted to make sure Ukraine wouldn’t use U.S. security aid to line the pockets of oligarchs and apparatchiks.
This narrative is built on a weak foundation — not only has Trump shown no concern about corruption, but he has also made nice with some of the world’s most corrupt strongmen — but Republicans have shored it up with cripple walls of fact. Ukraine does indeed have a well-documented problem with corruption, despite the best efforts of voters there to throw the bums out.
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