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Fox Test Runs The 'Sgt. Schultz' Defense For Trump On Ukrainian Extortion

Fox's Leland Vittert takes the "I know nothing" defense of Trump on Ukrainian extortion for a test run with Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski. Needless to say, it didn't go so well for Vittert.

By Heather
11/10/19 09:44 am

We've been watching the Republicans and their defense of Trump extorting Ukraine to manufacture dirt on a political opponent evolve, to put it kindly, from day one. As Stephen Colbert discussed on The Late Show last week when he blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham's willful ignorance, saying he won't even read the transcripts that have been released from the impeachment depositions, these seem to be the Republican stages of impeachment grief:

This Saturday, America's News Headquarters host Leland Vittert gave us another defense of Trump to add to the list.

State Department releasing the aid despite orders from the White House to the contrary.)
MALINOWSKI: Well, first of all, it's a really bad argument to say that the aid was ultimately restored and, therefore, he didn't commit a crime. That's sort of like saying attempted murders is not a crime. The aid was withheld, contrary to what Nikki Haley just said. It was frozen for weeks. It constituted 10 percent of the Ukrainian defense budget at a time when they were under attack by Russia and the only reason it was given to Ukraine was because the whistle-blower complaint blew up in the public and Republican senators started frantically calling the White House to say "Mr. President, you've got to stand down and release this money."
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