Politics
On this weekend’s broadcast of ” Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace asked Vice President Pence’s chief of personnel Marc Short asked why President Donald Trump wanted to investigate Ukraine interference in the 2016 election, which he claimed was Kremlin disinformation.
Wallace said, “Does President Trump still believe that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 election.”
Short said, “It doesn’t have to be an either-or. It can be both.”
Wallace asked again, “Forget the concern of Russia. Does the president believe that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election?”
Short stated, “He thinks we must a minimum of examine it, Chris … When Russia interfered in our election, Barack Obama was president, and Joe Biden was vice president and Joe Biden himself said he supervised of Ukraine policy, and his son is getting between $50,000 and $80,000 a month to serve on a board where he has no experience whatsoever. So his question is, why should not we examine it? It looked like we could never ever get enough examination of foreign interference in our elections for three years, but as quickly as the president asks for it, it’s like, ‘Hey, we need to impeach him.'”
Wallace stated, “Well, that’s not why it took place, as you know. There was a telephone call and the concern of the conditionality of a White House go to and providing them military help. It was on that basis he was requesting the investigation.”
He included, “Every significant U.S. intelligence agency says it was Russia that interfered in the election. Throughout a Home Intel Committee hearings, a member of the Trump National Security council Fiona Hill stated this concept that Ukraine interfered in the election is Kremlin disinformation, so why does the president believe it’s still worth investigating whether Ukraine did something?”
Short stated, “Why do not we search for the bottom line and the responses. We are not questioning Russia’s disturbance. I’m excepting that, however it does not suggest that simply due to the fact that Russia interfered does not suggest others didn’t also.”
Wallace said, “They are stating and Fiona Hill that the whole concern of Ukraine is Russian disinformation and in fact according to reporting, you may say it was inaccurate, Putin supposedly in a conference they had in Germany told the president that it was Ukraine. And he apparently said to some individuals in the administration, ‘Putin told me at Ukraine.'”
Brief responded, “I never heard that. I think that there can be– even if you’re saying my house was robbed ways your house could not have been robbed. It’s rather possible that both were interfering in elections, so why not investigate that?”
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