President Trump and his legal team want the American people to believe Ukraine is a corrupt hellhole. That narrative is central to the White House’s impeachment argument. As Mike Purpura, deputy counsel to the president, told the Senate in his opening arguments last Saturday, “The content of the July 25 call was in line with the president’s legitimate concerns about corruption.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged that the so-called Maidan case will be finished during the briefing after the prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russian-backed militants on Dec. 29, 2019. Ukraine had released five former officers of the now disbanded Berkut police that are suspected of the killings.
