as a threat to the rule of law in both countries, testimony released Thursday showed.
"I wrote a note to the file saying that I had concerns that there was an effort to initiate politically motivated prosecutions that were injurious to the rule of law, both in Ukraine and the US," he told investigators.Washington should not be making such demands, he said,"because that goes against everything that we are trying to promote in post-Soviet states for the last 28 years, which is the promotion of the rule of law.
Did Trump seek a foreign leader's and government's help for his personal political interests, including investigating his potential 2020 opponent? According to reports, she told interviewers that Trump's controversial Jul 25 phone call with Zelensky, in which he sought the Ukraine leader's help in getting dirt on the Democrats and specifically possible 2020 opponent Joe Biden, was a political phone call, not a diplomatic one.