When did Republicans learn to hate Democrats more than Russia?

We do have evidence of a quid pro quo. We have Trump's own staff stating clearly that there was a quid pro quo. Even Mulvaney stated that there was a quid pro quo live on television. He said to get over it.

Trump asked Zelensky to investigate the Bidens. What in the world does that have to do with interference in our elections?

Trump would only need to look into our own records in the US to find the truth. Why didn't he? If Biden did something wrong, then why not start an investigation here in the US? We know why Trump didn't do this, because Biden didn't do anything wrong. Biden was following US policy and supporting national interests when he pushed for the firing of a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor who was refusing to pursue investigations of corruption. Biden was fighting corruption in Ukraine with the support of the US government and the governments of our allies.

All Trump wanted was for Zelensky to get on TV and call Biden a criminal. Trump didn't care if an investigation actually went forward, he just wanted the sound bite.

Here is the timeline, and Obama did give aid to Ukraine.

Now add the other "deliverable" -- the public announcement by Zelenski on CNN that Ukraine is opening an investigation into Biden, cloudstrike and Ukraine interference in the 2016 election.

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CNN host was set to interview Ukrainian President until scandal took shape

CNN host Fareed Zakaria said on Thursday that he had been set to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before news about the Ukrainian's call with President Donald Trump broke.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that Zelensky had planned to announce an investigation into Trump's political rivals during a September interview on CNN, but those plans had been scrapped once Trump released promised security aid. Zakaria told CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Thursday that the interview had been months in the making, but it fell apart when the Ukraine scandal began to unfold -- though CNN did not cancel it.

"We had been negotiating with President Zelensky and his office for a while, for months, to try to get an interview with him anyway, ever since he was elected President," Zakaria, host of "Fareed Zakaria GPS," told Baldwin.

Once news of the whistleblower's complaint surfaced, "it became clear to us that the interview was off," he continued.

The Times reported that the decision to unfreeze the aid to Ukraine erased the need for Zelensky's televised appearance.

Almost all of Zelensky's aides supported the planned announcement on the show, one of the officials who debated the issue told the Times. They agreed that American military aid and diplomatic support during upcoming peace talks were worth the risk of seeming to support Trump in the American political process, the paper reported.

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Again, cancelled with no reason given and the only connection is the announced investigation into the whistleblower report.

Trumpty caught with his tiny hands in the cookie jar and crumbs on his jacket.

and like a child, saying "I didn't do it" ... with the evidence swirling around him.

Enjoy

And you also know that's not true, since you posted about the $1 billion in aid from the Obama administration in Message 2939, the $1 billion Biden threatened that the US would withhold unless the Ukraine removed Shokin as Prosecutor General:

--Percy

Edited by DrJones*, : No reason given.

I haven't heard of anyone saying he withheld aid that had been authorized. I bet you made that part up.