In any other political climate, anyone pushing this fringe theory would be diagnosed as certifiably insane. Not in the age of Trump. This was the Kremlin and Trump’s last-ditch effort to malign Ukraine and the Democrats at the same time. And as with his earlier “birtherism,” the president would not relent. He held up nearly $400 million in Congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine. And when Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, tried to ingratiate himself to Trump and shake the funds free, Trump told Zelensky, “I would like you to do us a favor though,” in their now infamous July
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