More Republicans Start Treating the Ukraine Scandal Like a Real Problem
On September 28, the most important Trump-world development was the way the Ukraine scandal kept bleeding out of the partisan bubble. A House Republican publicly backed looking into the whistleblower complaint, becoming the first GOP member in the chamber to do so, while the broader party continued struggling to decide whether this was a defend-Trump-at-all-costs moment or a wait-and-see catastrophe. The White House still wanted the story framed as a fake uproar. The rest of Washington, increasingly, was acting like it had already seen enough of the pattern to know this was going to get worse before it got better.
First recorded Sep 28, 2019·Meaningfully updated Sep 28, 2019
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More Republicans Start Treating the Ukraine Scandal Like a Real Problem
On September 28, the most important Trump-world development was the way the Ukraine scandal kept bleeding out of the partisan bubble. A House Republican publicly backed looking into the whistleblower complaint, becoming the first GOP member in the chamber to do so, while the broader party continued struggling to decide whether this was a defend-Trump-at-all-costs moment or a wait-and-see catastrophe. The White House still wanted the story framed as a fake uproar. The rest of Washington, increas…
On September 28, the most important Trump-world development was the way the Ukraine scandal kept bleeding out of the partisan bubble. A House Republican publicly backed looking into the whistleblower complaint, becoming the first GOP member in the chamber to do so, while the broader party continued struggling to decide whether this was a defend-Trump-at-all-costs moment or a wait-and-see catastrophe. The White House…
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