Although a few Republicans in the U.S. Senate have said that they find the Ukraine scandal troubling — including Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska — others have been rallying to President Donald Trump’s defense. And two GOP senators are responding to the scandal by calling for an investigation of Democratic actions in Ukraine during the 2016 presidential race.
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, according to the Washington Times, are asking Attorney General William Barr and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate claims that Democrats, in 2016, colluded with the Ukrainian government to undermine Trump’s presidential campaign. And Grassley and Johnson are alleging that Democratic consultant Alexandra Chalupa worked with the Ukrainian government to obtain Trump-related opposition research.
In a letter to Barr, Grassley and Johnson wrote, “Ukrainian efforts abetted by a U.S. political party to interfere in the 2016 election should not be ignored. Such allegations of corruption deserve due scrutiny, and the American people have a right to know when foreign forces attempted to undermine our Democrat processes.”
View the September 30 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.