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The GOP defense of Trump is in slow-motion collapse. It's about to get worse.
Washington PostWe know this to be true: Approximately one week passed between President Trump’s decision in mid-July to freeze hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine, and a phone call on July 26 in which Trump demanded to know from Ambassador Gordon Sondland whether Ukraine would investigate Joe Biden.
Not enough is being made of that chronological confluence. It means we now know that Trump froze the money at around the time he personally directed Sondland to carry out his corrupt pressure on Ukraine to investigate a potential 2020 rival.
This will gain wider attention when David Holmes, a State Department employee who overheard Trump’s July 26 call with Sondland, testifies Thursday to the impeachment inquiry.
The implications this will also be further fleshed out by more testimony on Thursday from Fiona Hill, a former White House adviser on Russia.