Analysis: How Republicans learned to love conspiracy theories - 1 minute read


How Republicans learned to love conspiracy theories

On one side were the nine witnesses -- all of whom are current or former Trump administration officials.

Those facts all painted a very similar picture: A concerted effort -- from a number of senior officials including President Donald Trump -- to force Ukraine to announce an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden in exchange for a meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House. When the investigation was not publicly announced, nearly $400 million in US security aid for Ukraine was held up as a way to lever up the pressure on Zelensky to do what Trump wanted. 

Source: CNN

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