For weeks, Democrats held impeachment hearings behind closed doors.
Over the last two weeks, we heard from some of those individuals, but we surely did not hear from all of them and there is good reason for that.
Based on transcripts that were recently released, several individuals damaged the Democrat narrative, with Mark Sandy being among those testimonies.
Stunning Revelation
Mark Sandy works in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
When he testified before the House, he told the members of the panel that the reason Trump withheld the aid for Ukraine was specifically “about other countries not contributing more to Ukraine.”
This is something that was mentioned during the impeachment hearings but it was also something the Democrats seemed entirely too quick to dismiss.
Trump Hates Foreign Aid
The one thing we heard repeated over and over again during the public hearings was that Trump does not like foreign aid.
When it came to Ukraine, Trump had several concerns that he wanted to address prior to releasing the aid.
The first was that he wanted to make sure he was not just handing over a check to a corrupt government.
Second, he wanted to use the aid we were giving to Ukraine and its purpose to create leverage with other governments to pay their fair share.
Remember when Trump was campaigning and the early days of his presidency when he threatened to remove the United States from the UN?
For years, the United States has ponied up a significant portion of the UN budget, and Trump wants everyone to pay more rather than the US having to foot the bill all the time.
Trump has a similar stance when it comes to the trillions of dollars our government sends out every year to foreign governments.
Democrats, however, are using the timing of the release to say Trump did something wrong here.
Since the release of the funding came after the report from the whistleblower got out, they are trying to say Trump had other intentions.
The paper trail leading up to that release, however, tells the real story, and that is one of a cautious president, not a corrupt one.