“Maybe he didn’t know,” Lamar Alexander said when asked why the president went to Ukraine instead of the attorney general about the Bidens
The Senator from Tennessee, who is set to retire and whose
played a crucial role in denying the country witnesses during the impeachment trial this week, was a guest onHost Chuck Todd asked Alexander if Trump’s Ukraine scheme went against what the Constitution sought to guard against — a president seeking foreign interference into an American election. “Does it wear on you, though, that one of the foundational reasons that the framers wrote the Constitution was almost fear of foreign interference?” Todd asked.“So, and here it is,” Todd said of Trump’s behavior regarding Ukraine.
Alexander then tried to differentiate what Trump attempted to do with Ukraine and what the Founders meant, saying, “Well, if you hooked up with Ukraine to wage war on the United States, as the first senator from Tennessee did, you could be expelled. But this wasn’t that.” The senator continued, “What the president should have done was, if he was upset about Joe Biden and his son and what they were doing in Ukraine, he should have called the attorney general and told him that and let the attorney general handle it the way they always handle cases that involve public figures.”
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