Trump's Ukraine policy was to roll back the country’s reforms and recorrupt its judicial system and, especially, its energy sector, undoing the anti-corruption activism of Joe Biden
Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Louisiana senator John Kennedy offered one of the Republican Party’s emerging defenses of President Trump’s extortion scheme. “Here are the two possible scenarios,” he said on Face the Nation yesterday. “Number one, the president asked for an investigation of a political rival. Number two, the president asked for an investigation of possible corruption by someone who happens to be a political rival. The latter would be in the national interest.
Corruption is certainly an important social problem in Ukraine, and the struggle to tame it has been well-documented. The American politician with the most impressive record of anti-corruption activism in that country is Joe Biden. The New York Times, the Washington Post and L.A. Times have all conducted deep dives into Biden’s record, and portrayed him as a forceful and effective advocate for reform.
Saletan’s analysis supplies the answer to the question Kennedy pretends to wonder about. Did Trump actually care about corruption? No, of course not. Parnas and Fruman met with Ukrainian officials and demanded an investigation into the Bidens. Parnas and Fruman also pressed Ukraine to give them a piece of the energy import business.
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