Sen. Menendez: Trump’s Ukraine Call Weaponized Foreign Assistance

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MENENDEZ: “Well George, I won’t comment about what and if that moment comes wherein the house ultimately adopts articles of impeachment and then of course the Senate will act as a jury so I’m not going to prejudice my views in that regard, but I will say this about the situation in Ukraine. The reality is, from my perspective as the senior Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, what was done is extraordinary and extraordinarily wrong. The president extorted or seeking to extort president Zell zel zelensky. And the delaying of that was extraordinary. Normally once the department notices the office of management and budget that they want to ex me pend the moneys, it takes five days. This took two months to ultimately finally get cleared, and clearly everything that led up to that call with president zelensky by President Trump was all to exert pressure on Ukraine. It was the worst of weaponizing U.S. Foreign assistance.”