Let's get real: Democrats were first to enlist Ukraine in US elections
By John Solomon, Opinion Contributor — 09/23/19 06:30 PM EDT
Earlier this month, during a bipartisan meeting in Kiev, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) delivered a pointed message to Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
While choosing his words carefully, Murphy made clear — by his own account — that Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but that could be jeopardized if the new president acquiesced to requests by President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including former Vice President Joe Biden’s family.
Murphy boasted after the meeting that he told the new Ukrainian leader that U.S. aid was his country’s “most important asset†and it would be viewed as election-meddling and “disastrous for long-term U.S.-Ukraine relations†to bend to the wishes of Trump and Giuliani.
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