.MaddowBlog: GOP still can’t answer key Pres. Trump scandal question.
Should an American president be able to solicit foreign interference in U.S. elections with impunity? It’s a question that’s near the center of Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme. It’s a question that’s been around for months. And it’s a question Republicans still don’t know how to answer.
It’s really not. We know this for certain in part because the White House released an official call summary of Trump’s July 25 conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the American president pressed his counterpart in Kyiv to “look into” Joe Biden. A week after that call summary was released to the public, Trump stood on the South Lawn of the White House and told reporters on camera, “China should start an investigation into the Bidens.
The senator added that he doesn’t believe Trump’s controversy “rises to the standard of an impeachable offense.” I mention this in part because it’s generally amazing to watch the White House’s GOP allies struggle while trying to cover for Trump’s obvious misdeeds, and in part because Republicans have had several months to come up with an answer to the question about presidents soliciting foreign election assistance, and they still haven’t quite figured it out.
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