Sunday, October 6, 2019

FOX NEWS ANCHOR CONFRONTS GOP REP WITH DIPLOMATIC TEXTS AFTER HE INSISTS TRUMP HAD NO QUID PRO QUO WITH UKRAINE

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-chris-wallace-gop-rep-diplomatic-texts-quid-pro-quo-1463445



Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted Republican Congressman Chris Stewart with text messages between U.S. diplomats discussing what many critics of the president see as clear evidence of a quid pro quo after the representative insisted no such expectation existed.

Stewart, who represents Utah and sits on the House Intelligence Committee, told Wallace during an interview on Fox News Sunday that Trump never linked his request that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky investigated Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden to military aid. "It's never even mentioned," the representative said, referring to a controversial July 25 phone call between the two leaders. "He [Trump] doesn't ever offer a quid pro quo."

But Wallace, later in the segment, pointed to text messages between American diplomats working with Ukraine that suggested Trump would only grant the $391 million in military aid and a meeting with Zelensky if the investigation into Biden was opened.

1 comment:

  1. "That suggested." This whole impeachment shindig is a Rashomon exercise.

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