Republican Senators: Trump's Ukraine Actions Were Wrong, But We Don't Care

[TomCADem]

Just think of all of the Republicans who are now attacking Biden for being weak in opposing Russian aggression. These are the same folks who did not care when Trump was withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine unless the Ukraine fabricated some direct against his political opponents.

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Key U.S. Republican senators are saying that President Donald Trump's request to Ukraine to launch an investigation to benefit himself politically was wrong, but did not amount to a significant enough offense to convict him on impeachment charges and remove him from office.

Trump has for months described as "perfect" his request last July to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate one of Trump's top 2020 challengers, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden's work for a Ukrainian natural gas company.

But both Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa said in interviews broadcast Sunday that Trump erred in asking Zelenskiy to "do us a favor" to launch the investigations at the same time he was withholding $391 million in military aid Kyiv wanted to help fight pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Alexander, who provided a key vote late last week against the Democrats' effort to call key Trump aides as witnesses in the president's Senate impeachment trial, told NBC News's "Meet the Press" show that it was "crossing the line" for Trump to ask for the Biden investigations.“