'Bribery and extortion are intricately interwoven in what the President did in the Ukraine shakedown,' says RepRaskin. 'In either event, the President has betrayed his oath of office, he's betrayed our foreign policy and he's betrayed our election.'
Washington House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued on Thursday that the President's actions in the Ukraine scandal constitute"bribery" and that President Donald Trump has admitted to it himself, the latest and most high-profile Democrat to use that word when describing Trump's conduct.
"What the President has admitted to and says it's perfect, I've said it's perfectly wrong. It's bribery," the California Democrat said at her weekly news conference Thursday. Trump has repeatedly claimed that his now-famous July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was"perfect.
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