WASHINGTON — A key ally of President Trump is dismissing the latest developments in the impeachment investigation, calling it a “bunch of B.S.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters Tuesday he doesn’t plan to read the transcripts Democrats are releasing from the impeachment investigation, despite demanding that they be made public. He says he’s “written the whole process off.”
The South Carolina Republican is also downplaying revised testimony from Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, about the Trump administration’s pressure on Ukraine.
Sondland for the first time acknowledged a potential quid pro quo with Ukraine, with American military aid held up as the administration pushed the country to release a statement about fighting corruption.
Graham says, “that’s his opinion,” adding, “I don’t think the president did anything wrong.
Meanshile, the White House claims the release of two transcripts Tuesday shows “there is even less evidence” for impeachment that previously thought.
Press secretary Stephanie Grisham says Sondland’s revised testimony didn’t “identify any solid source” for his acknowledgement that he understood by September that American aid to Ukraine was linked to a public statement promising to investigate corruption in the country.
Grisham concludes, “No amount of salacious media-biased headlines, which are clearly designed to influence the narrative, change the fact that the president has done nothing wrong.”
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