they paid him. he didn't give them anything for nothing, for free. campaign expenditure, not a campaign contribution. foreign sources that he used. we don't even know if they had any idea what the purpose was behind his requests and there is no indication they approached the campaign, let alone with anything of value, let alone for free. now, i lay this out because the farce needs to be exposed. what the president said is wrong. what his son tried to do was wrong. that's probably why they lied about it and put out a false explanation. there is no need to try to mitigate the impact by casting blame on others. the energy should be on calling out what is wrong and then fixing the system. the right going quiet about this president is expected. but how can the senate not want