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Bill Taylor’s testimony blows hole in Trump’s anti-corruption Ukraine narrative

By Quin Hillyer
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Bill Taylor’s testimony blows hole in Trump’s anti-corruption Ukraine narrative

The transcript of Ambassador Bill Taylor’s testimony released on Wednesday makes clear a central fallacy of President Trump’s defenders.

Namely, Trump and lawyer Rudy Giuliani never were interested in having Ukraine fight institutional corruption of the sort that would have any bearing on the effectiveness of U.S. aid. Instead, they were interested only in prompting investigations, no matter how spurious, that could help Trump politically.

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