‘Double Standard’: Senate Democrats Asked Ukraine To Help Them Investigate Trump

On Tuesday, The Washington Post ripped Democrats for their apparent “double standard” regarding their party’s latest push to impeach President Donald Trump. The left-leaning paper said that Democrats who are incensed about Trump allegedly offering an alleged quid pro quo to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (and a released transcript from Wednesday morning indicates this was not the case) should look in the mirror. 

“It got almost no attention, but in May, CNN reported that Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) wrote a letter to Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, expressing concern at the closing of four investigations they said were critical to the Mueller probe,” The Washington Post outlined. “In the letter, they implied that their support for U.S. assistance to Ukraine was at stake. Describing themselves as ‘strong advocates for a robust and close relationship with Ukraine,’ the Democratic senators declared, ‘We have supported [the] capacity-building process and are disappointed that some in Kyiv appear to have cast aside these [democratic] principles to avoid the ire of President Trump,’ before demanding Lutsenko ‘reverse course and halt any efforts to impede cooperation with this important investigation.’”