Trump saw Ukraine as a way to settle scores

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By David Ignatius / The Washington Post

Through all of President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, he has rarely focused on the job for which he was elected: steering the foreign policy of the United States. Instead, for Trump, Ukraine has been a continuing story of personal resentment and political opportunism.

A narrative of the Ukraine affair — drawn from conversations with some of the principals, text messages released by the House and other documentation — solidly supports the claim of the still-anonymous CIA whistleblower that “the president of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.”

Ukraine is a chip on Trump’s shoulder. He saw Ukrainian allegations in 2016 about his then campaign Chairman Paul Manafort as part of a plot to undermine his bid for the White House, and then reverse the election result through what Trump keeps insisting is a “witch hunt.”

So when Trump saw an opportunity to turn the tables, and use Ukraine against former Vice President Joe Biden, his leading rival in 2020, he grabbed it. As the narrative shows, he bent the tools of his office to his personal political purpose.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/ignatius-trump-saw-ukraine-as-a-way-to-settle-scores/

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1. Moscow Don was looking to score

a twofer. One get his pal Manafort out of Prison via a discredited Mueller Investigation. And the biggee,giving the Eastern Ukraine wilt all it's trappings as well as lifting all Sanctions to his Handler Vladimir Putin.

And maybe his Commission on that deal was Debt forgiveness on his Deutche and Ladder Bank Loans.