Trump: "I would like you to do us a favor though."
Ukraine wanted the Javelin missiles Congress had authorized.
Trump said there was a holdup.
He needed a favor.
With so much news coming so fast it is easy to forget the connection to the first impeachment of President Trump.
Below are pages from the transcript of the testimony of Ambassador William Taylor, the chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kiev in 2019. He expresses for himself his dismay at seeing military aid to Ukraine held up, with release conditioned on support for Trump's re-election. No need for me to comment.
Here is a link to the full transcript:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/taylor-impeachment-deposition-transcript/index.html