Opinion: If Trump had really been interested in fighting corruption in Ukraine, here’s what the president’s team could have done
President Donald Trump insists there’s an innocent explanation for the July 25 phone call in which he asked Ukraine’s president to investigate political rival Joe Biden. “I don’t care about Biden’s campaign,” he told reporters on Friday, “but I do care about corruption.” Now, congressional Republicans seem to be bolstering that defense. Sen.
If Trump were really, legitimately focused on rooting out corruption in Ukraine—whether at companies like Burisma, which employed Hunter Biden, or within the government—there are U.S. government processes for doing so, when there is a credible case. Strangely, while Trump has a new-found interest in fighting “corruption”—at least that associated with his political rivals—his administration has requestedmoney for INL, not more. In fiscal year 2019, the bureau was granted $5 million, but State requested $3 million for fiscal year 2020. If the president were really concerned about corruption in Ukraine, he and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo should have requested more resources for INL work there.
For instance, the chargé d’affaires in Kiev, Ambassador William Taylor, and his team could send a “demarche”—an official statement of U.S. policy with respect to a corrupt activity or individual—to Ukrainian officials at the Ministry of Justice or in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office and try to sort out ways to address them.
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