Jim Jordan is all alone with the dumbest Trump defense of all
by digby
I’ve been talking for a while about Jim Jordan’s alternate theory of Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. In a nutshell he’s suggesting that this was all a secret plot by Trump to test the new Ukrainian president to see if he would agree to a corrupt bargain to go after Biden and the Democrats in exchange for aid. He was springing a trap and when they didn’t do it, he released the aid, reassured that they weren’t corrupt actors after all.
I’m not kidding. Here he is saying that senior government officials were also concerned about this, then signed off and that was it:
LOL – Jordan explains suspicious timing of aid to Ukraine being released on same day the House started investigating the Ukraine scheme by insisting that “it got released because so many senior govt officials met w/Zelensky & they determined, ‘hey, this new kid in town is legit'” pic.twitter.com/NZxsYtH2aV— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 20, 2019
I guess if you ignore everything Trump has ever said and done you might believe it. But for all the alternative narratives they are throwing out there, this has to be the most unbelievable. Indeed, it’s so bad that even the Republicans seem to be recoiling. Jordan is the only one with the galloping chutzpah to put this out there.
It’s too dumb for Nunes. Think about that.
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