November 9, 2019
The Ukraine Depositions Have Destroyed Trump’s “Corruption” Defense
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/11/ukraine-depositions-trump-republican-corruption-lies.html
"It wasn’t about cleaning up Ukraine. It was about using American power, including nearly $400 million in military aid, to hurt his enemies. And that behavior—the abuse of power for selective prosecution—is exactly the quagmire Ukraine was trying to escape. “That’s the way ‘anti-corruption’ was played out in Ukraine for decades,” Volker testified. “It wasn’t about just fighting corruption. It was about who are my enemies and who are my friends.” Instead of pulling Ukraine out of that quagmire, Trump plunged America into it."