GOP Outlines Impeachment Defense In Memo

Republicans on the three House committees conducting the Trump-Ukraine investigation have settled on “four key pieces of evidence” that they claim will undermine Democrats’ arguments for why the president should be impeached, Axios reports.

From the GOP memo to committee members:

• The July 25 call summary — the best evidence of the conversation — shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure;
• President Zelensky and President Trump have both said there was no pressure on the call;
• The Ukrainian government was not aware of a hold on U.S. security assistance at the time of the July 25 call; and
• President Trump met with President Zelensky and U.S. security assistance flowed to Ukraine in September 2019 — both of which occurred without Ukraine investigating President Trump’s political rivals.