Senate Republicans split over Trump urging Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-republicans-split-over-trump-urging-ukrainian-leader-to-investigate-biden/2019/09/25/48ec0e64-dfa6-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html

By Robert Costa September 25, 2019 at 12:03 p.m. EDT

Several Senate Republicans were stunned Wednesday and questioned the White House’s judgment after it released a rough transcript of President Trump’s call with the Ukraine president that showed Trump offering the help of the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

One Senate Republican, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, said the transcript’s release was a “huge mistake” that the GOP now has to confront, even as they argue that House Democrats are overreaching with their impeachment effort.

A top Senate GOP aide said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expecting Wednesday’s closed-door lunch to be eventful and possibly tense as Republicans react to the transcript and debate their next step.

“It remains troubling in the extreme. It’s deeply troubling,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) told reporters Wednesday, when asked about the transcript.

Three Senate GOP aides said Wednesday that their bosses were grousing and frustrated by the White House’s decision and the sense that Republican lawmakers were being forced into the difficult position of defending Trump while contending with what many see as an alarming or at least problematic transcript.

But other Senate Republicans, allied with Trump, were dismissive. “Wow. Impeachment over this?” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) tweeted. “What a nothing (non-quid pro quo) burger.”

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[Iliyah]

1. Yeah right. Republicans,

especially in the Senate work in unison and don't give a damn about the United States of America nor her people.

[ffr]

2. Which means as the public knows more, ever night, there will be defections.

Count on it.

[madaboutharry]

3. Lindsey Graham is a foolish man.

[wiggs]

4. That's what the gop does. Isolate an incident then muddy the water with lies and

misinformation until no one knows what is what.

That's why the dems and journalists and pundits have to show that the Ukraine outrage is just one item out of a long list of misconduct and misdemeanors...and that there's a self serving pattern going back before the election.

don't let impeachment just be about this whistleblower, whom they will attack and impune regardless.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Lindsey's more concerned about BJ's