Bolton: ’Widely Understood’ By Pompeo and Others that Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Biden Probe

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STEPHANOPOULOS: "You’ve also confirmed, as we said earlier, the core case, the impeachment case the Democrats made against President Trump, that he explicitly tied aid to Ukraine to those investigations of his political opponents. You knew that at the time. Did Secretary of State Pompeo knew that at the time?"
BOLTON: "I think it was widely understood. And I want to say, all of us who were involved in dealing with national security aspects of Ukraine, I think uniformly, were working to get the assistance delivered. We were -- we were running up against a September 30 end of fiscal year deadline and there was real urgency not to lose that assistance because of the bureaucratic rules about budget allocations. And that was the focus. The only person in the White House that I’m aware of that didn’t focus on the national security implications for Ukraine was Donald Trump."