(12-03-2019 03:56 PM)SoMs Eagle Wrote:  

(12-03-2019 02:18 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

Quote:President Trump has a deep-seated, genuine, and reasonable skepticism of Ukraine due to its history of pervasive corruption.

So, he then asks Ukraine to investigate corruption when they can't be trusted.

Quote:President Trump has a long-held skepticism of U.S. foreign assistance and believes that Europe should pay its fair share for mutual defense.

Yet we don't pay the majority of the aid.

Quote:President Donald Trump wrongly said that “Europe and other nations” were “not” contributing to Ukraine, specifically calling for Germany and France to “put up money.” In fact, the European Union and European financial institutions have contributed more than $16.4 billion in grants and loans to Ukraine since 2014.

European countries have contributed an estimated two-thirds of all of the aid to Ukraine since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and launched a conflict in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, according to Iain King, a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Trump Wrong on European Aid to Ukraine

No reason to even bother with the rest of this nonsense.

The GOP = Useful idiots. Sad.

Who guaranteed those loans? Who paid when EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS disappeared?
This new leader of the Ukraine ran on rooting out corruption. So Trump had a very good reason to be discussing corruption with him on every phone call they would ever have. The democrats don’t care about corruption. After all, their offspring were over there getting rich off of it.

Well I said they don’t care but they sure were interested in Paul Manaforts dealings over there.

Context...links?? No idea what you're talking about.

And your corruption narrative falls flat as trump isn't concerned with the corruption of his own kids and others in his administration, much less corruption in any other country that can't provide any help against his political opponents. Not to mention that he gave them the money anyway with no promise or reform of corruption that anyone has detailed. Why was that? Oh yeah, because he got caught. Oops.