The newly released transcript of U.S. House Intelligence Committee testimony on the Ukraine impeachment inquiry confirms there is no quid pro quo in President Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) asked former U.S. Envoy to the Ukraine Kurt Volker, “And in no way, shape, or form in either the readouts from the United States or Ukraine did you receive any indication whatsoever for anything that resembles a quid pro quo?,” to which Volker emphatically said, “Correct.”
CNN begrudgingly was forced to report the news, which was buried in an article on the U.S. ambassador to the EU’s transcript, which apparently has been updated, saying “… I said that resumption of the US aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks,” in regard to U.S. foreign aid to the country.
In the CNN article, they wrote, “Still, Volker’s testimony also provided Trump and his allies with fodder, as they’ve been pushing for it to be released publicly. Volker told lawmakers that he didn’t know about any ‘quid pro quo’ linking US military assistance to the announcement of Ukrainian investigations into Biden and the Democrats.”
CNN has yet to write in a headline about the lack of a quid pro quo in the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, which some have called a “witch hunt” and an “impeachment scam.”