“I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.”
Donald J. Trump, soon-to-be-ex-president of the United States, just trying to extort a foreign leader for his own personal ends, as one does.
This article appears in September 27 • 2019.
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