this week the impeachment inquiry was
probably the most explosive yet on
Wednesday morning the Republicans
stormed the committee rooms were
impeachment investigations were being
conducted they were angry that the
testimonies were being held in private
today before investigators heard from
this man William Taylor the acting US
ambassador to Ukraine and his testimony
was a bombshell the most disturbing day
in Congress so far in his 10 our private
testimony Taylor explicitly said that US
military aid to Ukraine was being
withheld until they opened up an
investigation that could be damaging to
Democrats and the Biden's or as they
used to say in ancient Rome a quid pro
quo let's break it down according to
Taylor
Gordon Solomon the US ambassador to the
EU put it bluntly Donald Trump is a man
with a checkbook a businessman at heart
Sandlin said when a businessman is about
to sign a cheque to someone who owes him
something the businessman asks that
person to pay up before signing the
check
Thank You Taylor objected to this
comparison saying that Ukraine was a key
regional Ally fighting for their
survival and they didn't owe the United
States anything tangling them up in a
political dispute was crazy so would it
make a Bill Taylor is he credible he
will be for many Phil Taylor went to
Harvard and West Point he fought in
Vietnam and won a Bronze Star he has 50
years of public service he worked for a
Democratic senator and served as an
ambassador in both the george w bush and
barack obama administrations he was
personally asked by Trump's Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo to fill in as
ambassador to Ukraine earlier this year
that is a very important statement from
a very credible person Donald Trump had
a different view expressed as always in
a tweet he said he doesn't even know him
another character emerged this week a
woman who said she was from the White
House Budget Office appeared in a video
conference with Taylor but he couldn't
tell who it was because she was
off-screen she said that my boss
structured her to not approve any
additional security money to Ukraine
until further notice so where does this
put Trump this week bill Taylor painted
a dark picture of u.s. foreign policy
being bent for political goals Trump's
Republican supporters in Congress are
clearly worried and the president should
be too
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