Jeffries continues to demonstrate, step by step, just how ridiculous Donald Trump’s claims of “no pressure” really are. Ukraine needed the military assistance. They needed the White House meeting.
They didn’t just want them. They required them to survive.
So long as it was just Rudy Giuliani representing himself as Trump’s personal attorney, they resisted announcing investigations, because they knew it would risk their bipartisan support in Congress. But Trump didn’t leave it at Giuliani. He pushed the State Department to take their marching orders from Giuliani, and with the help of calls from Sondland, Volker, and others, Zelensky was driven to cooperate with Giuliani.