Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent testified Wednesday as part of the impeachment inquiry on his personal alarm as actors like Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s attempts to “gin up politically motivated investigations” “infected” U.S.-Ukraine relations.
Read his prepared remarks here:
Brick by brick…
Alarm?
How about incredulous at the unmitigated gall / criminality?
Remember Joe Pesci telling his cousin, Ralph Macchio in My Cousin Vinny about how a prosecutor builds a case brick by brick, but he never wants to show you his brick wall from the side because then you will know it’s just a facade?
Well, this is nothing like that.
I honestly can’t believe how stark the situation is with Ukraine generally.
I’m glad we sent them $1.6B over the past 5 years. I hope we continue to support them.